Humor in Teaching
September 16th, 2009
OK, stop me if you’ve heard this one… three statisticians walk into a bar…
Is statistics funny? Neumann, Hood, & Neumann (2009) think they can make it funny, and sought to find out how students reacted to including humor in statistics classes. (It should be noted that this article is from a Journal of Statistics Education “Research to Practice” [...]
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Teachers’ Views of Homework and Effects on Students
September 4th, 2009
What do teachers think is the primary purpose of homework? How much do they think parents should be involved? How do those attitudes effect student effort and achievement?
A group of researchers studying teachers in Switzerland (hey! a non-US study!) conducted a survey of 93 teachers of French as a second language. Their survey included scales [...]
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Framework for Educational Technology Research
August 31st, 2009
A lot of educational technology research is very specific and focused on a specific technology. For the last couple of years, there has been a movement to get more of a theoretical base around the research. This has led to the development of what researchers call Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK).
This idea derives from the [...]
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High School Writing Practices
July 22nd, 2009
If you have spent time around college professors talking about students, you have surely heard complaints about writing skills (more specifically, lack thereof). The majority opinion is that students do not express themselves well in written form. So, what are high school teachers doing in the way of teaching writing?
Kiuhara, Graham, & Hawken conducted a survey [...]
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Requiring Discussion Board Responses
July 21st, 2009
If you’ve ever taught an online course, or used a discussion board feature in any class, you may have wondered as I did whether to require students to respond to other students. Also, should I, as the instructor, respond to all the students’ posts or does that inhibit other students from responding? An article by [...]
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Teacher Logs as Research Tool
July 13th, 2009
I have been wrapping up a long-term research project using video methodology to observe classrooms. This was a time- and resource-intensive project. I have been wondering about existing research on the tradeoffs of using teacher logs to gather information about teaching and classroom events. I came across two interesting studies of this coauthored by Eric [...]
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Variability in Teaching
July 8th, 2009
In an article about methodological challenges of studying the teaching of reading in Educational Researcher, Croninger and Valli include the following:
“…when we examined variation in the quality of teacher-student oral exchanges across observations, we discovered that most of the variance in these exchanges occurred among lessons enacted by the same teachers.”
In fact, they found that [...]
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Do Teacher Tests Predict Teaching Performance?
July 3rd, 2009
The majority of states now require some form of paper-and-pencil test for teacher licensure (although the content of these tests varies greatly). The idea of these tests is presumably to make sure that teachers coming into the system meet some minimum requirement. An empirical question, however, is whether these tests predict teaching performance.
Over the years, [...]
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