A Longitudinal Study of Teacher Change: What makes professional development effective? Report of the second year of the study

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Boyle ◽  
Iasonas Lamprianou ◽  
Trudy Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Teacher Change ◽  
Second Year

Phonological sensitivity, rapid naming, and beginning reading

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Cronin ◽  
Paula Carver
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Rapid Naming ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Phonological Sensitivity ◽  
Separate Factor ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Naming Tasks

ABSTRACTReading acquisition was related to phonological sensitivity and rapid naming in a longitudinal study with young children. Phonological assessment consisted of rhyme and initial consonant discrimination, while the rapid naming tasks were made up of pictures, letters, and numbers. The subjects were 95 children from two grade levels, primary and first grade. They were tested in the fall and spring of the first year and the spring of the second year. It was found that the phonological and rapid naming tests each predicted unique variance in reading attainment, as measured at the end of the second year of the study. The rapid naming responses became more automatic early in the first grade year, while naming times generally became faster. Although many researchers regard rapid naming as part of the phonological core, the present article discusses the various advantages of considering rapid naming as a separate factor in reading development.

scholarly journals THE DYNAMICS OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VALUE-MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENT OF STUDENTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL READINESS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY AT VARIOUS STAGES OF STUDYING AT THE UNIVERSITY

2016 ◽  
pp. 120-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. S. Morozova ◽  
E. V. Voronova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Semantic Component ◽  
The University

The paper discusses the problem of studying the relations of substantive characteristics of the value-semantic component of students’ psychological readiness for professional activity at various stages of studying at the Universityand presents the results of a longitudinal study of this issue. The results of the study indicated that the content characteristics (objective, process, result, overall rate of life-meaning orientations) are the basis of the value-motivational component of students’ psychological readiness for professional activity at various stages of studying at the University. According to the results of the study the axiological component of students’ psychological readiness of for professional activity into which first-year students includes orientation to the professional knowledge, skills. Students have 2 years of training to increase the value of the chosen profession, the desire to become a professional. In the 3rd year students’ valuemotivational component is represented in the experience of the crisis of professional development. In their 4th year of study, students have changing views about their professional future, orientation to future professional development.

scholarly journals The professional development of primary school mathematics teachers through a design-based research methodology

Pythagoras ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piera Biccard
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Teacher Change ◽  
African State ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Mathematical Content ◽  
Primary School Mathematics ◽  
One Year

This article sets out a professional development programme for primary school mathematics teachers. Clark and Hollingsworth’s model of teacher change provided the theoretical framework necessary to understand teacher change. A design study allowed for increased programme flexibility and participator involvement. Five volunteer primary school teachers teaching at South African state schools were involved in the programme for a period of one year and their pedagogy, use of mathematical content and context developed during the programme. Twenty lessons were observed over the year-long period. An observation rubric that specifically focused on mathematical pedagogy, use of context and mathematical content scale guided the researcher to gauge global changing teacher practices. Teacher growth was evident through their professional experimentation and changes in their personal domain. The design features emanating from the study are that teachers be given opportunities to experience reform tasks (e.g. model-eliciting tasks) in the role of learners themselves and teachers should be encouraged to use contextual problems to initiate concept development. More mathematical detail in lesson planning is also necessary. Furthermore, teachers need appropriately designed resource materials to teach in new ways. It is recommended that professional development includes teachers engaging collaboratively in solving rich tasks. This study adds to the growing body of knowledge regarding teacher development programmes that focus on how teachers change their own classroom practices.

scholarly journals Do early noun and verb production predict later verb and noun production? Theoretical implications

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMIDDIA LONGOBARDI ◽  
PIETRO SPATARO ◽  
DIANE L. PUTNICK ◽  
MARC H. BORNSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Semantic Constraints ◽  
Lexical Categories ◽  
Relative Dominance ◽  
Second Year Of Life ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Second Year

AbstractMany studies have addressed the question of the relative dominance of nouns over verbs in the productive vocabularies of children in the second year of life. Surprisingly, cross-class (noun-to-verb and verb-to-noun) relations between these two lexical categories have seldom been investigated. The present longitudinal study employed observational and parent-report data obtained from thirty mother–child dyads at 1;4, 1;8, and 2;0 to examine this issue. Both the Natural Partitions/Relational Relativity (NP/RR) hypothesis and the Emergentist Coalition Model (ECM) predict that having an initial repertoire of common nouns should facilitate the acquisition of novel verbs, whereas only the ECM suggests that children exploit the syntactic and semantic constraints of known verbs to infer the meaning of novel nouns. In line with the ECM, hierarchical regression analyses indicated that the percentages of nouns produced by children at 1;4 predicted later verbs at 1;8, whereas the percentages of verbs produced at 1;8 predicted later nouns at 2;0.

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