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Early childhood teacher involvement in children’s socio-dramatic play: creative drama as a scaffolding tool
(2019)
We acknowledge the importance of scaffolding during play
Infancy pedagogy and praxis
(2019)
Through an examination of the reflective comments of 42 pre-service Early Childhood Education Teachers (PS-ECETs), this study describes how an infancy course within an Early Childhood Education program used four different ...
Challenges for IT-Enabled Formative Assessment of Complex 21st Century Skills
(2018)
In this article, we identify and examine opportunities for formative assessment provided by information technologies (IT) and the challenges which these opportunities present. We address some of these challenges by examining ...
Tensions in specifying computing curricula for K-12: Towards a principled approach for objectives
(2018)
<section class="abstract"><h2 class="abstractTitle text-title my-1" id="d316e2">Abstract</h2><p>In this article we examine key issues and tensions for developing and specifying Computing-related elements of curricula design, ...
Reciprocal peer assessment as a learning tool for secondary school students in modeling-based learning
(2018)
The aim of this study was to investigate how reciprocal peer assessment in modeling-based learning can serve as a learning tool for secondary school learners in a physics course. The participants were 22 upper secondary ...
Curriculum making as professionalism-in-context: the cases of two elementary school teachers amidst curriculum change in Cyprus
(2018)
In this paper, two case studies of elementary school teachers in the Republic of Cyprus are constructed to discuss how curriculum making relates to teacher biographies and sense of professionalism, as those are shaped at ...
Ninth-grade students' perceptions of the factors that led them to major in high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines
(2019)
On completing middle-school (ninth grade), Israeli students must choose which discipline(s) to major in upon entering high school. This study, grounded in Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT), identified and modeled the factors ...
Assessing individual lessons using a generic teacher observation instrument: how useful is the International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF)?
(2018)
Teacher effectiveness, which impacts student attainment even when controlling for student characteristics, is of key importance as a factor in educational effectiveness and improvement. Improving the quality of teaching ...