This research analyzed the feedback delivered by cooperating teachers and university supervisors in an internship, and reports how student teachers perceived the feedback they received during debriefing sessions with their mentors. Hattie and Timperley's (2007) framework for conceptualizing effective feedback was used to analyze cooperating teachers' and field supervisor' assessment of the stud...

Classroom experiments are becoming increasingly popular as active-learning exercises for courses in economics. There are many situations where technology is needed to facilitate the effective use of classroom experiments. This article examines how computers and wireless handheld devices are being used to enhance the flexibility of classroom experiments and expand their usability to larger class...

The present study aimed at understanding the opinions of Hong Kong educators on classroom observation as a practice of staff development and appraisal. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 2,400 educators in summer 1997. About half of the respondents indicated that they practiced classroom observation in their schools. Most of them indicated that the primary objective of the observation wa...

In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

A sociocultural perspective on teacher learning was used to investigate how three beginning teachers’ conceptions of classroom management affected their developing teaching practices. Students were followed from student teaching through their first 2 years of teaching. Data sources included interviews, classroom observations, and teacher education portfolios. Although all three teachers shared ...