ND/SM C students caught in middle of teachers’ strike

Common School System: Do We Have an Option?

1n October 1997, as I walked out of the international airport of Toronto (Ontario, Canada), my eyes caught the newspaper headlines announcing “State-wide School Teachers’ Strike’. Coming from India, this was nothing unusual. However, the next headline puzzled me. It read: “Joint Rally of Teachers and Parents.” It made no sense at all. How can the teachers and the parents join hands in a protest...

The Impact of Teachers' Praise on Students' Self-Talk and Self-Concepts

This study investigated the mediating effect of self-talk between positive and negative statements made by teachers and students' academic self-concepts (reading, mathematics, and learning) . Participants were 269 students in grades 3-7 at a middle-class, metropolitan, Australian elementary school. A research assistant administered the following instruments: (1) the "Significant Others Statemen...

Combating substance misuse: competences and preparation of special education department students

BACKGROUND This study examines Jordanian special education department students' competences and preparation relating to combating substance misuse (SM). METHOD Thematic analysis was performed on data from interviews with 150 students. RESULTS Some participants denied the possibility of addiction among students with disabilities, and presented negative attitudes toward their role in combatin...

Running Head: TEACHERS’ EXPECTATIONS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Teachers’ Expectations of Middle School Students

Developing Items to Assess Middle Grades Teachers - 1 - DO NOT CITE OR DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT PERMISSION Identifying Attributes and Developing Items to Assess Middle Grades Teachers’ Multiplicative Reasoning

A growing number of projects, many funded by the National Science Foundation, have begun to combine research in mathematics education with psychometric models. Promises of such research include: (a) new insight about the distribution of mathematical knowledge in large populations, (b) empirical links between teachers’ mathematical knowledge and students’ achievement, (c) the development of meas...