This paper addresses to the question of how to empower research competence of a kind which would lead a peripheral university like SNU to becoming a world-class university. There have been noticeable achievements in building competitive, first class universities in many developing nations, particularly in Asian countries. This paper will examine the process by which SNU can be transforming SNU into a world-class university in Korea. The analysis will focus on the internal reforms implemented at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Research Universities, Educational Change,...
Many schools are initiating projects that place laptop computers into the hands of each student and teacher in the school. These projects entail a great deal of planning and investment by all involved. The teachers in these schools are faced with significant challenges as they prepare for teaching in classrooms where every student has a computer. Using the Concerns-Based Adoption Model of change, this study investigated the concerns of teachers in the early stages of a one-to-one laptop...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Environment, Computers, Adoption (Ideas), Teacher Attitudes, Educational...
The Thinking Together educational approach was first developed in the UK to promote the use of exploratory talk in primary classrooms. The approach was then adapted and applied to the very different context of Mexican state primary education. This paper compares the program in Mexico with the program in the UK and concludes that, despite that fact that the relationship between teacher's practice and the approach was much closer in the UK than Mexico, the program appeared to have very similar...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education,...
Increasingly, educational reform is linked to the concept of professional learning communities (PLCs). Definitions of PLCs vary, but generally the concept refers to a group of educators who "continuously seek and share learning, and act on their learning" (Hord 1997, 6). Stoll and her colleagues, concluding their review of the current state of PLCs and research, observe that there is a "paucity of longitudinal research" and that "little is yet known about the potential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Research, Educational Cooperation, Educational...
The "achievement gap" is a well-documented problem in schools. Evidence of an academic performance problem requires that educators respond quickly and differently to signs of academic failure. As the lessons of the achievement gap suggest that historical decisions about when to intervene with performance support are flawed, performance support interventions must be provided much sooner than they have been considered in the past. Recent educational innovations, such as differentiated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Appropriate...
Wonderful schools do not simply have to be imagined. Phenomenal examples of education going right for children exist in the United States. These schools are serving all populations of children and families. What becomes clear, even with schools that appear quite different from one another, is that common themes emerge across effective schools and contribute to what makes them impressive yet replicable models (Newmann, Secada, and Wehlage 1995; Daggett 2005). An identifiable culture and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Effectiveness, Educational Innovation, School Culture, Educational...
The Iowa Chautauqua Program was developed in 1983 with support from National Science Foundation (NSF) which awarded the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) a major grant to study an inexpensive in-service model for stimulating reform in K-12 science classrooms. Iowa was one of the six Chautauqua sites which were modeled after a program for teachers from small colleges and operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In Iowa this new Chautauqua effort focused...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Science Teachers, Science and Society, Program Effectiveness,...
The purpose of this study was to collect reliability and validity data on the School Characteristics Inventory (SCI), a quantitative measure based on Sternberg's (2000) theory of contextual modifiability. Data were collected from a national sample of middle school teachers and from teachers participating in a 3-year study investigating teachers' willingness to implement differentiated instruction or differentiated authentic assessments. Factor analysis indicated 6 factors (School Reputation,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reputation, Validity, Educational Innovation, Factor Analysis, Educational Change,...
In this article, we focus on the role and actions of individual school leaders in initiating and governing the process of reculturing. First, we elaborate on the core elements of the process of reculturing, referring to a complex learning process of finding a new balance between cognitions and emotions both individually and collectively. We then review the literature for issues related to school leaders' roles and actions during reculturing. We argue that the role of leadership power largely...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Role, Educational Innovation, Instructional Leadership, Teaching Methods,...
The recognition, development and implementation of multicultural education in America is a relatively new and emerging idea. Prior to the middle of the previous century, the concept of addressing and providing a meaningful educational experience for all students, including students of color, was non-existent. In recent years, through the work of numerous educators (Banks, 1993; Banks, J. & Banks, C., 2004; Baptiste, 1979/1986/ 1994; Bennett, 1995; Boyer & Baptiste, 1996; Garcia, R.L.,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Multicultural Education, Educational Policy, Presidents, Educational Innovation,...
American education is a vast junkyard of curricular innovations that in their own heydays were promoted as panaceas for much that ails the schools and society. It's not that good ideas and usable methods were lacking there. It's that they live in a culture where people expect too much, in too short a time, for too little an investment in resources. How might educators go about assessing what is promoted as a best practice, even if they do not personally possess the expertise to finely evaluate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Trust (Psychology), Educational Innovation, Rhetoric, Rozycki, Edward G.
To address the lack of connection between theory and practice, a number of recent reforms in teacher education have included inquiry-based programs and/or new types of education courses, which encourage student teachers to be reflective problem solvers and change agents. Based on a pilot course for student teachers, the authors, also aspiring teacher educators, studied the process of implementing an inquiry approach toward teaching and learning to teach while simultaneously responding to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Education Courses, Change Agents, Theory...
This article describes an approach and an innovative technology used at California Lutheran University that responds to the problematic relationship between preservice teacher service-learning projects and assessment, evaluation, and reporting. This innovative technology, The ProfPort Webfolio System, enables teacher educators to positively address the inconsistency between subjective responses to service-learning activities and the more objective measures embedded in standards-based...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Portfolio Assessment, Program...
Some colleges of education and urban school districts have established collaborative Professional Development Schools (PDSs) to prepare teachers across the learning-to-teach continuum (pre-service to in-service to instructional leaders) to address the particular needs of low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse (LI/CLD) students. Outcomes, either in regard to K-12 pupils or to pre-service and in-service teachers, have been infrequently examined despite the proliferation of these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, Schools of Education, Professional Development Schools, Elementary...
Although the ultimate goal of teacher education is to provide an adequate supply of highly qualified teachers for the nation's schools, many factors hinder its success. In special education, too few people enter the field, and a policy context that promotes easy entry via unconventional preparation threatens to dilute teacher quality. In this challenging and complex context, teacher educators struggle to improve their work and to assess innovations credibly. In this paper, the authors describe...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Special Education Teachers,...
There is widespread understanding of the need to evaluate teacher education programs. Unfortunately, the history of teacher education program evaluations is spotty, evolutionary, and limited in scope. Probably the most fundamental reason that program evaluations are limited is that there has not been a clear, consistent, and shared framework for organizing the many variables that comprise teacher education practice and relating these to evidence of effectiveness. In this article, the authors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Teacher Education Curriculum,...
Multiple sources of influence impact the decisions about what and how teacher educators are expected to operate, including the innovations that are adopted. Some of those sources of influence (such as teacher certification boards) can demand that certain curricula be adopted, specific instructional procedures be utilized, and delineate the conditions under which candidates will be selected for entry into teacher education programs. Other sources of influence include how other professionals are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Innovation,...
As in other regions, development on many New England campuses over the past 30 years has tended to be more random than planned. Following the same patterns of sprawl that have defined most development in today's era, the placement of new campus buildings often separated them from the life of the university, while a hodgepodge of architectural styles clashed with the vocabulary of the historic quad. Lost, or at least diminished, is a fundamental asset of academic life in New England: the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Strategic Planning, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning,...
Billion-dollar investments in public higher education do not come easily in the State of Connecticut--or anywhere in New England. So, when in 1995, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland and the state's General Assembly approved the $1 billion comprehensive infrastructure improvement and private support incentive program known as UConn 2000, this was something bordering on the revolutionary. Looking back after seven years of dramatic transformation, it seems as if the arguments for the initiative were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Investment, Politics of Education, Educational Facilities...
Think of New England higher education and one probably thinks of ivy-covered brick or perhaps 1950s concrete, but the environment of New England's college campuses is far more diverse, more complex, more daring, and more educational than the stereotype. It is changing fast, thanks to profound forces such as consumerization among students, town-gown relations, historic preservation, and sustainability. This article presents nine examples of recent New England campus building projects that offer...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Campuses, Physical Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational...
There is a fundamental change occurring in higher education--a pedagogic shift from teaching to learning. This shift is being driven by considerable and significant research into educational theory, behavioral and cognitive sciences and human development. In the past, a common mode of teaching was lecturing. Today, many faculty facilitate discussions. Students today are encouraged to be more proactive and to take responsibility for their own learning. They have more experiential and hands-on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Building Design, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Design...
Rural communities that envision a bright future for themselves and their children have become innovative out of necessity--they learn, and adapt, in order to flourish and to provide opportunities for their children. As the formal centers of learning, and often as the largest employer in the community, rural schools become the heart and symbol of learning and community identity. Unfortunately, their policy and legislative environments often lead to tensions between rural priorities/lifestyles...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Rural Schools, School Districts,...
From 1932 to 1940, the Progressive Education Association (PEA) conducted its Eight-Year Study. At first, the study appeared to be a poorly funded comparison of two groups of students in secondary schools. During the last four years, as more financial support became available, the Eight-Year Study became a broadly based demonstration of a wide range of educational innovations. For contemporary educators, the story of the Eight-Year Study represents an opportunity to reconsider popular principles...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational History, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change,...
This article examines the relationship between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and learning and teaching, particularly in distance education contexts. We argue that environmental changes (societal, educational, and technological) make it necessary to adapt systems and practices that are no longer appropriate. The need to adapt, however, can be perceived as being technology-led and primarily concerned with requiring academic staff to develop their skills in using ICT....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Practices, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Educational...
This study investigated the impact of a Professional Development School (PDS) on student learning by comparing student achievement in a PDS and a control school. Student achievement data were collected from an elementary PDS and a matched control school over a 6-year period. The results indicate that the PDS moved more students up to mastery level and more students out of intervention level on state standardized tests than the control school. PDS development descriptions and standards ratings...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Development Schools, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement,...
Professional development is a common and necessary approach to improving teacher quality. However, while teachers are required to participate in professional development activities, it is often the case that they are not involved in selecting and planning those activities, and that professional development may not be closely tied to classroom practice. The Francis P. Collea Teacher Achievement Award Program (CTAAP) is a professional development model grounded in much of the current literature...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Role,...
This paper looks at the implications of Web 2.0 technologies for university teaching and learning. The latest generation of undergraduates already live in a Web 2.0 world. They have new service expectations and are increasingly dissatisfied with teacher-centred pedagogies. To attract and retain these students, universities will need to rethink their operations. New social technologies mean that universities have the chance to create a new generation of student-centred learning environments, to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Theories,...
University innovations relevant to sustainability education do not always come labelled as such. Inspiration can potentially be drawn from a wide range of fields and initiatives. During a 2005 study tour of Canada, seven universities were visited to investigate such programs, focussing on those that comprise more than one subject and that are intended for an undergraduate audience. In this paper, an exploratory study is undertaken of the collected interviews, field notes and documents to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Undergraduate...
As teachers face increasing demands to meet the needs of students with special needs in inclusive classrooms, there is a corresponding increase in the need for professional development opportunities for practicing teachers in areas that will assist them to become more knowledgeable in meeting these needs. One area of concern for teachers is the use of assistive technology tools in the classroom with students with special needs. Teachers frequently report a lack of skills and knowledge in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Professional...
Calls for schools to "improve" are everywhere, but recently calls for schools to "transform" have proliferated, based on the idea that schools are not simply underperforming but outdated if not obsolete. Most prominently, scholars and authors such as Phillip Schlechty, Peter Senge, and Francis Duffy have targeted school and school system leaders with books calling for whole-system or systemic change to make schools compatible with other information-age social systems....
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Charter Schools, Social Systems, Community Schools, School Districts,...
The paper explores some of the key themes and discussion points that were aired at the Association of Learning Technology conference in 2004. It discusses the findings of several of the keynote speakers and presenters within the context of the relationship between technology, practice and innovation. It references the papers presented in the technology infrastructure and new technology strands of the conference to examine whether educational technology currently has an appropriate balance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Research and Development, Conference Papers, Conferences...
E-learning is in a rather extraordinary position. It was born as a "tool" and now finds itself in the guise of a somewhat wobbly arrow of change. In practice, changing the way thousands of teachers teach, learners learn, innovation is promoted and sustainable change in traditional institutions is achieved across hundreds of different disciplines is a demanding endeavour that will not be achieved by learning technologies alone. It involves art, craft and science as well as technology....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Strategies, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning,...
This article examines a Victorian high school's implementation of a new Year 9 program which was intended to interrupt a traditional academic curriculum and to create an imagined oasis of care and personal development for students. It explores ways in which (1) the existing culture and context of the school continues to frame the subjectivities of teachers, students and parents in relation to the new program, (2) the attempt to preserve a competitive academic traditional orientation alongside...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Policy, Program...
One of the key concepts in the right to education is access: access to the means to fully develop as human beings as well as access to the means to gain skills, knowledge and credentials. This is an important perspective through which to examine the solutions to access enabled by Open Educational Resources (OER) and online learning. The authors compare and contrast OER and online learning and their potential for addressing human rights "to" and "in" education. The authors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Global Education, Online Courses, Access to Education, Educational Resources, Equal...
This study explores attitudes towards and affecting online learning implementation (OLI). In recent years there has been greater acceptance of online learning (OL) by institutional decision-makers, as evidenced by higher levels of institutional involvement; nevertheless, the increase in faculty acceptance lags behind. This gap affects the widespread adoption of OL. This paper proposes that faculty acceptance of OL is influenced by attitudes related to four variables that affect practice change:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Resistance to Change, Educational Innovation, College Environment,...
Twelve instructors' reflections lead to engagement and proactivity in pedagogical knowledge, thus building an analytical approach which is fundamental to the development of university professional practice. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational...
The necessity of faculty members to hold specific skills and abilities with regard to technology has reached our institutions of higher education. Locally, a digital portfolio initiative recently implemented by our institution in teacher education has produced an unprecedented expectation for faculty technology skill, as well as conceptual understanding of the digital portfolio model. This article strives to further our understanding of how contextualized technology training, focused on local...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Student Evaluation,...
The concern that educational research is often divorced from the problems and issues of everyday teaching practice, is strongly influenced by the chosen paradigm in which the research is framed. Modelled on design-based research methods, this paper presents the development of a theoretical research framework that accommodates complex interventions, such as the adoption of ICT into mainstream classroom practice, which can be informed and improved through empirical study. It is hoped that in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Models, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Educational...
The use of proper measurements of diffusion of information technology as an innovation are essential to determining if progress is being made in state, regional, and national level programs. This project provides a national level cross validation study of several instruments commonly used to assess the effectiveness of technology integration in instructional programs. (Contains 10 tables, 6 figures, and 1 footnote.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technology Integration, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Academic...
This paper investigates how the study of English literature at senior secondary level might be construed in ways that are congruent with current poststructuralist understandings about texts, reading and writing. As an example we analyse an innovative English literature course, whose students develop a theorized understanding of a range of reading practices, which they apply in undertaking a series of readings of literary texts. Students thereby develop a reflexive understanding of their reading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, English Literature, Course Descriptions, High School Seniors, Educational Innovation,...
In order to address a perceived gap between academic knowledge and education, The Dutch National Advisory Board on Education has suggested that there is a need for more communication between research and practice. For me the gap is more than simply a matter of lack of communication, than a result of the model of Research, Development and Diffusion implicitly privileged by the Board. This model is characterised by an objectivistic epistemology, a supposedly neutral ethics, and a view that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching (Occupation), Advisory Committees, Research Projects, Educational...
Improving the quality of Early Childhood Education has been a priority in Brazil, but it is still a challenging issue to be faced. The fact that an indefinite number of institutions exist on the borders of the educational system, the lack of systematic supervision, and incomplete official statistics are only a few of the challenges. The Millennium Fund for Early Childhood Education has been developed to directly improve the quality of educators who work with Brazil's most socially vulnerable...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Responsibility, Private Sector,...
This article chronicles the evolution of legislation for Texas open-enrollment charter schools to their implementation by demonstrating how these schools have (or have not) used their freedom from state-mandated requirements to develop innovative learning environments as well as to bring innovative curricula into the classroom. The investigative focus was on an analysis of Texas open-enrollment charter school legislation, from 1995 (74th legislative session) to the 77th legislative session in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Charter Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Teacher Persistence, Labor...
Filling the Gap with Innovations is a study of a higher education professional development model used to infuse a teacher education program with technology innovations in order to address curriculum gaps. Professional educators at the university level are not traditionally collaborative. Yet, when an assessment of program alignment to state professional teacher standards identified six areas inadequately addressed by program content, instructors participated in a collaborative process to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Professional Development, Educational...
Cultural differences between Asia and the West and their influence on teaching, are reviewed along with previous experiments in bringing critical thinking to Asian education, and recognition of needs for and barriers to achieving change. Principles driving design and implementation of a two-course sequence in professional transportation studies are presented. Asian students were cast as teachers who made regular presentations and understood they had valuable contributions to make, not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Asians, Graduate Students, Curriculum Design, Cultural Differences, Foreign...
High-quality career and technical education (CTE) programs can launch America's future competitiveness through increased student engagement, the innovative integration of traditional academic courses, and by meeting the needs of both employers and the economy as a whole. American students failing to keep pace with their international counterparts have given serious cause for concern as the gap continues to widen despite myriad education reform movements. Recent reform efforts have focused on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Vocational Education, Educational Methods, Emerging Occupations,...
We describe a new approach to teaching introductory biology. Our introductory experience for undergraduates is a laboratory course that is entirely inquiry and discovery based. We introduce our students to fundamental concepts in biology in the framework of three multi-week laboratory modules, each of which is an open-ended investigation of a current area of biological study. Students read the primary literature about the research question, learn techniques and statistical approaches, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Instruction, Educational...
The Lewis & Clark Rediscovery Project is a technology professional development program designed to help teachers restructure teaching and learning practices in the classroom, and to foster technology use in the schools. The 5-year program (extended into a 6th) was funded in 1999 with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education: Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. The Rediscovery Project's "touchstones" include the historic record of challenges and encounters of Lewis and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Peer Teaching, Mentors, Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Inquiry,...
In regards to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the emperor is not wearing any clothes. The author contends that this bill uses impressive sounding buzz words and phraseology with which one can hardly disagree, but in essence it offers no new innovations or does nothing to improve the fundamental quality of education. This bill is not based on educational research and research-based theory. Instead, it is an illusion built upon ideological fallacies, nested within the narrow confines of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Educational Legislation, Educational...
Social entrepreneurship, with its focus on innovative leadership, mirrors current interest in leadership for change in the field of education. In countries where national governments lack the resources to meet the educational needs of their populations, social entrepreneurs can develop innovative ways of providing access to education, and innovative methods of delivering education, to disadvantaged social groups. This article uses studies of educational projects in Bangladesh to consider the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Entrepreneurship,...