In exploring the potential for mentoring to support novice teachers’ use of effective teaching practices, we conducted a grounded theory analysis about change potential. Themes emerging from cross-case analysis of survey, interview, and observation data from six beginning primary teachers in the US and their mentors revealed factors, other than type of mentoring programme, that related to begin...

The ability of novice and experienced Ss to learn complex decision rules was tested with 3 categorization tasks. Each task involved 2 categories with exemplars that were normally distributed on 2 stimulus dimensions. 3 separate sets of stimuli were used, and in each task the decision rule that maximized categorization accuracy was a highly nonlinear function of the stimulus dimension values. In...

Competency-based training and professional development is critical to the clinical research enterprise. Understanding research coordinators' perspectives is important for establishing a common core curriculum. The purpose of this study was to describe participants' perspectives regarding the impact of online and classroom training sessions. 27 participants among three institutions, completed a ...