This paper proposes a new concept called hybrid intelligencebased distance education (HIDE). The idea of HIDE is to combine human intelligence and machine intelligence to enhance a large scale teacher-student interaction for the webbased distance education. The long term goal is to achieve unnoticeable merging of human intelligence and machine intelligence to maximally enhance teacher-student i...

The relative return to strategies that augment inputs versus those that reduce inefficiencies remains a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India, we show that the large public investments in education over the past decade have led to substantial improvements in input-based measure...

In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

Wendy Robinson University if Exeter 19 Policy, theory and practice in initial teacher education in England has a long history if turbulence. This paper riflects upon this history and examines those key aspects if initial teacher education which have shaped pas~ present and foture developments. Following a brig historical overview if key developments in the field, the issue if where best to trai...

Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

A N EFFECTIVE teacher is perhaps the most important factor in producing consistently high levels of student achievement. Thus the profession must see to it that teachers are continually learning throughout their careers, and that process begins with those newest to the profession. A new teacher induction program can acculturate those newcomers to the idea that professional learning must be a li...

This case study examines the challenges faced and resources employed by a preservice science teacher throughout his teacher preparation program. Challenges included an absence of supported space in field experiences, intense emotions associated with learning, and establishing “effective” relationships with students. Supports included affordances offered by program sequence, program coherence, a...

“What shall I do with my students to help them understand this science concept? What materials are there to help me? What are my students likely to already know and what will be difficult for them? How best shall I evaluate what my students have learned?" These questions are common for every teacher, and central to describing the knowledge that distinguishes a teacher from a subject matter spec...

Most education reformers agree that effective teaching is defined by improving student learning, but they disagree on how to measure teacher effectiveness and how to use those measurements to improve teaching. Thus far, most of the policy debate on teacher effectiveness has focused on using test scores to implement merit pay or to fire teachers, but those strategies alone will not lift teacher ...