This article reports on issues arising from the external evaluation of a teacher development project – the Active Learning in Primary Science (ALPS) project – undertaken in eight Bristol (UK) primary schools during 2007. The ALPS project aimed to raise pupil attainment in science by developing participating teachers’ skills, knowledge and enthusiasm through a programme of centre-based CPD, clas...

In order to conduct grey relational analysis of the teaching skills and learning results of aerobics, based on brief introduction of related theories of the grey relational analysis method, this paper uses the viewpoints of system theory to systematically classify the teaching skills of aerobics. Finally, the grey relational analysis method in statistics is combined with the study on the learni...

Introduction Based on extensive piloting work, we adapted the Incredible Years (IY) teacher-training programme to the Jamaican preschool setting and evaluated this adapted version through a cluster-randomised trial. Methods Twenty-four community preschools in Kingston, Jamaica were randomly assigned to intervention (12 schools, 37 teachers) or control (12 schools, 36 teachers). The interventi...

Introduction. Evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. During the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. More studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. T...

OBJECTIVES We examined the quality of instruction in a continued medical education course and the correspondence between the residents and lecturers evaluations of the program. MATERIALS AND METHODS Resident psychiatrists and instructors completed structured evaluation forms immediately following each lecture in a psychiatry course for one academic year. RESULTS Residents' and lecturers' ev...

Research in education and applied psychology has produced a number of insights into how students think and learn, but all too often the resulting impact on actual classroom instruction is uneven and unpredictable (Sabelli & Dede, in press; Schoenfeld, 1999). In response, many in higher education are translating research in education into models of learning specific to their own disciplines (Bur...

Morale can be defined as the professional interest and enthusiasm a person displays towards the achievement of individual and group goals in a given job situation (Bentley & Rempel, 1980). Morale is set within the framework of organizational theory with an individual progressing toward the achievement of organizational tasks and his or her perceived job satisfaction within the total organizatio...