The study investigated the impact of professional development (PD) in Indigenous teaching on teachers’ psychological and behavioural aspects, and Indigenous students’ learning engagement. Adopting a multiple-indicator-multiple-indicator-cause model, frequency of PD was found to have positive paths to teachers’ self-concept in Indigenous teaching and all the teaching strategies, but had a non-si...

It has been proved in the past half century that high-stakes tests hinder more than promote instruction. The College Entrance Examination (CEE) in China has thus been in widely questioned. When it comes to curriculum reform this century, the question becomes how has curriculum reform been implemented in the classroom? What role does the CEE play in it? A qualitative study of three high schools ...

English education is an integration of many factors such as teaching methods, curriculum design etc. In particular, teachers' ability plays an important role in English education. This paper discusses the development of teachers' teaching ability and proposes a series of basic requirements for more effective English education. It is argued that adoption of scientific and appropriate teaching me...

The Learn to Travel Project: a case study of curriculum innovation in primary schools by Peter Mason This thesis is a case study of curriculum innovation in the primary school at a time of major change during the introduction of the National Curriculum. It involved a small number of primary schools, teachers and children. In particular the processes and impacts of the innovation were investigat...

BACKGROUND Burns are common in the UK and many of the 30,000 newly qualified doctors there will be faced with managing them in their first few years of practice. We are concerned that doctors are leaving medical school without adequate teaching on burns and therefore not prepared to manage burns competently. The aim of this study was to assess the graduating doctors self-declared knowledge of b...

Implementing an Australian National Curriculum will require targeting both teachers and preservice teachers. Classroom teachers in their roles as mentors are well situated for developing preservice teachers. This mixed-method study presents mentors’ reports on their mentoring of primary preservice teachers (mentees) in mathematics (n=43) and science (n=29). Mentors claimed they mentored the tea...

In this article we describe the mathematics curriculum and teaching practices in a purposive sample of high‐poverty elementary schools working with 3 of the most widely disseminated comprehensive school reform programs in the United States. Data from 19,999 instructional logs completed by 509 first‐, third‐, and fourth‐grade teachers in 53 schools showed that the mathematics taught in these sch...