an the use of teacher led “why” questioning techniques improve student learning of texts in K-12 educational settings? Much of the educational reform movement seeks to deemphasize the centrality of the teacher in leading classroom discussions in favor of more ‘student-centered’ approaches (Bransford, Brown & Cocking, 1999, Hirsch 1996), but research in this line seems both appropriate and neces...

This research aims to analyse a teacher’s questioning activity using oral open-ended questions in the mathematics classroom three phases: teacher asks orally, students answer questions, and responds answers. involved twenty-three year 7 (aged eleven-twelve years old) secondary school UK. The samples were chosen purposive sampling technique. data collection technique used was 45-minute-long less...

The use of a Classroom Response System (CRS) was evaluated in two sections, A and B, of a large lecture microbiology course. In Section B the instructor used the CRS technology at the beginning of the class period posing a question on content from the previous class. Students could earn extra credit if they answered the question correctly. In Section A, the class also began with an extra credit...

In Chapter One, I observed that one of the effects of technical rationality on research on teaching has been the tendency to focus almost exclusively on what the teacher does in class, rather than on what students also do to influence classroom practices. Students, it appears, do not matter really in classroom processes and curriculum implementation. This thinking suggests that their behaviour ...

School has to qualify students to use mathematical knowledge and competences in a flexible way in different situations. For that they have to understand fundamental concepts and techniques of mathematics. They have to be able to use standard-procedures to solve problems in well-known situations as well as to use flexible different strategies to solve non-routine problems. Learning the basics li...

This paper puts forward the implementation feasibility as the fourth dimension parameter to balance 3 d parameters of training quality, cost and time aiming at the selection of rural in-service teacher training scheme. It designs the implementation feasibility and the hierarchical structure model of implementation feasibility index. It puts forward implementation feasibility probability of ever...

I welcome the inquiry into teacher training. I am an IT professional of 20 years standing, with the appropriate academic and professional qualifications. I have no involvement with or vested interest in the academic establishment, although I have had some exposure to this through the attainment of a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, my current candidature for a Master of Computing Studies, some year...