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Performance Contracts for Administrators. ERIC Digest, Number 127.
symbol that we're deeply committed to a hard-edged accountability system that will hold my feet up to the fire" (Bushweller). Performance contracts are viewed by some as a way to establish a new performance-based cultu...
Learning To Learn: Preparing Teachers and Students for Problem-Based Learning. ERIC Digest...
Learning http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/books/levin01book.html * Assessing Student Work with Project-Based Learning http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/AssessPBL.html * Project Based Learning: Involving Students in Checklist Creation (Also, check out the link to the...
Quality in Distance Education. ERIC Digest.
education today." Dziuban and Moskal (2001) found that courses with both a web and face-to-face component produced the same or better success rates than courses that were fully online or face-to-face. This result teases us into asking whet...
A Guide to Organizations Involved with Licensing and Certification of Teachers and Accredi...
against these standards are being developed through the Performance Assessment Development Project, a program designed for the licensing of beginning teachers and includes the use of portfolios to determine licensing of candidates. INTASC is also developing...
Effective Teaching in Distance Education. ERIC Digest.
information on the many forms distance education can take and keys to successful teaching with distance education. WHAT IS DISTANCE EDUCATION? Distance education is a method of education in which the learner is physically separated from the teacher...
Learning History through Children's Literature. ERIC Digest.
the whole language teaching method; concern that children have an inadequate historical understanding of the cultural characteristics that hold the Republic together; recognition that many students need to develop tolerance of individuals unlike themselves;...
Summarizing Change in Test Scores: Shortcomings of Three Common Methods. ERIC Digest.
simple, this method is often employed to express change in test scores to the general public. As an example, Edison Schools used this method to report that students, on average, "are gaining more than 5 percentiles per year " (1999, p. 2)....
Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom. ERIC Digest.
and technologies that promotethe integration of listening, reading, speaking, and writing, as well as theassociated skills of syntax, vocabulary, and so on. * Even if a given course is labeled according to just one skill, rememberthat it is possible to integrate the...
Applying Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques to Social Skills Instruction. ERIC/OSEP Digest.
plays, and self-evaluation. As such, a student's cognition about social situations encountered throughout the school day can be examined and modified through verbal self-regulation (i.e., using self-talk to guide problem solving or some other behavior). CBI incorporates behavio...
Career Development of Diverse Populations. ERIC Digest.
confounded (ibid.), making it difficult to determine the pertinence of findings to specific populations. When culture or ethnicity is considered, most definitions assume that culture is "static, unitary, essentialist, and all encompassing" and that "identity is ...
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