ERIC Number: EJ1014771
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1443-833X
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Using Most Significant Change Stories to Document the Impact of the Teaching Teachers for the Future Project: An Australian Teacher Education Story
Heck, Deborah; Sweeney, Trudy-Ann
Australian Educational Computing, v27 n3 p36-47 2013
The Teaching Teachers for the Future (TTF) project engaged teacher
educators from all Australian institutions in a professional learning network
that provided targeted professional development and fostered collaboration
within and between teacher education institutions and relevant teacher
education partners to build capacity within each institution. This paper
explores the Most Significant Change (MSC) method used to demonstrate the impact of the National Support Network on Information Communication
Technology Education (ICTE) in teacher education that formed part of this
project. The MSC approach was developed as a tool for sharing practice
and monitoring project impact in a participatory way. The process involved
collecting stories from the field to establish the impact of the project. These
stories were shared by participants to identify the Most Significant Change
across the three domains of change: Course development, ICT capacity of
teacher educators and ICT capacity of pre-service teachers. The stories and
comments by participants in the project represent the initial secondary data
analysis presented in this paper. These data were analysed to identify the
patterns of change using content analysis and Leximancer analysis. The
results indicate that the development of confidence, knowledge and
understanding are important when developing TPACK in teacher education. (Contains 4 tables, 6 figures, and 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Faculty Development, Institutional Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Planning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Program Effectiveness, Program Development, Teacher Educators, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Computer Literacy, Teaching Skills, Teacher Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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