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Technology, Professional Development, and Student Achievement: Using the Tell Survey in a Study of Low Socioeconomic Schools in Kentucky
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Ross, Holly McLeod – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In order to compare the accessibility, need, and extent of professional development, technology, and its relationship to low socioeconomic (SES) schools and achievement, data were accessed from the Kentucky Department of Education, Division of School and Community Nutrition Qualifying Data Report to identify schools with a greater than 50% free…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Low Income
Open Source Meets Virtual Reality--An Instructor's Journey Unearths New Opportunities for Learning, Community, and Academia
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O'Connor, Eileen A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2015
Opening with the history, recent advances, and emerging ways to use avatar-based virtual reality, an instructor who has used virtual environments since 2007 shares how these environments bring more options to community building, teaching, and education. With the open-source movement, where the source code for virtual environments was made…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Simulated Environment, Open Source Technology
To Touch the Future: Transforming the Way Teachers Are Taught. An Action Agenda for College and University Presidents.
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1999
This action plan provides information on improving the quality of education offered to teachers and school leaders, reporting the results of a task force study which found that: student success depends mainly on teacher quality; the essential competencies of effective teachers are command of the subject, preparation in effective pedagogical…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education