Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
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Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers: The Role of Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Programs in Massachusetts [PDF]
, 2009 Over the past decade, alternative teacher preparation programs have proliferated across the nation -- and in Massachusetts -- in response to projected teacher shortages and in an effort to better prepare teachers for the challenges of today's classrooms.
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Connecting knowledge and practice: Mathematics teacher educators' knowledge and use of formative feedback in Ghana [PDF]
, 2022 Justice Enu, Annatoria Zanele Ngcobo
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What Made Me the Teacher I Am Today? A Reflection by Selected Leonore Annenberg-Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows [PDF]
, 2016 The report offers a series of short essays from 18 teachers, each reflecting on what inspired and guided them into the teaching profession. Some of the highlights include:"I've come to realize that my learning process in the classroom actually feels a ...
Andrew J. Schiera +12 more
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Pedagogical content knowledge and preparation of string teachers [PDF]
, 2018 In the past few decades, there has been an increase in the percentage of non-string specialists teaching string classes. In this article, we review literature about subject-specific pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in general and music education ...
Grieser, Diane, Hendricks, Karin
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2010 In this article the researchers report on the findings obtained from a sequential explanatory mixed method study through testing and narratives in order to determine the extent to which 24 prospective Mathematics educators at a South African university ...
M (Magda) M Kloppers, M (Mary) M Grosser
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Performance-Based Compensation: Design and Implementation at Six Teacher Incentive Fund Sites [PDF]
, 2010 Examines preliminary outcomes for student achievement, stakeholder support, recruitment and retention, and changes in school cultures; success factors; challenges; and the role of states and districts in implementation and financial ...
Jonathan Eckert
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Effects of Movement, Growth Mindset and Math Talks on Math Anxiety [PDF]
, 2019 Mathematical anxiety is prevalent in our schools. This research provides insight into how mathematical anxiety develops and how it affects students throughout their lives.
Ewing, Jim, Peterman, Christina J
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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An educational activity for middle school teachers: analysis of Invalsi mathematics tests
Formare, 2016 This paper shows how the analysis of items of Italian national standardized mathematics tests (Invalsi) can become a means to develop teacher education programs for mathematics middle school teachers.
Francesca Martignone
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