Using cooperative learning to close the reading attainment gap for students with low literacy levels for Grade 8/Year 9 students

Allen Thurston; Maria Cockerill; Nicole Craig

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 94, No. 1 (2019) pp. 1–10

A randomized controlled trial of peer tutoring was undertaken in 60 Grade 6/Year 7, and 60 Grade 8/Year 9 classrooms (1299 Grade 6/Year 7 students and 1275 Grade 8/Year 9 students). Grade 8/Year 9 students acted as reading tutors to Grade 6/Year 7...

Language: English

Using iWeb for construction of teacher education portfolios:

Penny Craig; Nicole Bell; Matthew Stuve; Wei Ma

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 47–49

A free-form, INTASC-based, reflective portfolio has been used in our teacher education program for four years. Parallel to this initiative is a Macintosh laptop initiative that enabled teacher education students to create portfolios using Netscape...

Learning to Notice and Name Students’ Mathematical Strengths: A Digital Experience

Nicole Bannister; Crystal Kalinec-Craig; Diana Bowen; Sandra Crespo

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2018) pp. 13–31

In this article the authors discuss the process of designing a digital experience to support prospective teachers to learn to enact an equity-based complex practice of mathematics teaching, namely to notice students’ mathematical strengths rather...

Using iWeb for constructing multimedia digital portfolios in teacher education

Nicole Bell; Wei Ma; Penny Craig; Matthew Stuve

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 5211–5212

Reflective, developmental web-based portfolios can be constructed using a variety of means and technologies. For programs in which students publish their portfolios as web sites, an integrated web publishing software can enable students to more...

Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality

Becky Francis; Jeremy Hodgen; Nicole Craig; Becky Taylor; Louise Archer; Anna Mazenod; Antonina Tereshchenko; Paul Connolly

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 77, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 183–192

Prior research suggests that where pupils are 'tracked', better qualified, more experienced teachers tend to be deployed to higher attainment groups, at the expense of pupils in lower tracks. This is especially pertinent from a social justice...

Language: English

A randomized controlled efficacy trial of a smoking prevention programme with Grade 8 students in high schools

Allen Thurston; Laura Dunne; Frank Kee; Aidean Gildea; Nicole Craig; Patrick Stark; Anne Lazenbatt

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 93, No. 1 (2019) pp. 23–32

The study undertook a Level 3 efficacy trial of a smoking prevention programme in Grade 8 high-school classrooms. A smoking prevention programme, ‘Dead Cool’, was tested in a randomized controlled trial. 17 Grade 8 classes were randomly assigned to...

Language: English