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Student voice, teacher action research and classroom improvement /

The issue of teacher quality is increasingly seen as being central to education policy development and this emphasis highlights the role teacher professional development plays in improving teacher effectiveness and the quality of learning in the classroom. This book describes a large-scale research...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bell, Lisa M. (Autor), Aldge, Jill M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2014.
Colección:Advances in learning environments research ; volume 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction
  • The issue of teacher quality
  • School and teacher effectiveness
  • Teacher professional development and professional growth
  • Teacher action research
  • Teacher reflection
  • Learning environments research
  • Students' attitudes and self-beliefs
  • Design and methods
  • Structure of the book
  • ch. 2. Students' voices : assessing the learning environment, students' attitudes and self-beliefs
  • Assessing the learning environment
  • Assessing students' attitudes and academic self-beliefs
  • Validation of the instruments
  • Chapter summary
  • ch. 3. Using student perception data to guide teacher action research
  • Overview of the teacher development activity
  • Pre-post changes in students' perceptions of their classroom learning environments
  • Using student perception data to guide improvements to the classroom learning environment
  • Chapter summary
  • ch. 4. Student perception data, teacher action research and school improvement
  • Using teacher action research as part of initiatives for school improvement
  • Chapter summary
  • ch. 5. Discussion, limitations and future directions
  • Development, validity and reliability of the Coles and the ASBS
  • Pre-post changes in students' perceptions of the learning environment
  • Using student perception data as the basis for teacher action research
  • Teacher action research based on student perception data as professional learning
  • Teacher action research and school improvement
  • Limitations of the study
  • Contributions of the study
  • Future research
  • Concluding comments.