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White, Jacob; Hopkins, Robert, II; Shockley, Denise; Lewis, Marsha; Hutzel, Margaret; Crabtree, Deborah – Research in the Schools, 2018
This study describes a science professional development (PD) project within a small Appalachian school district involving all elementary and middle school science teachers. Teachers receiving PD demonstrated statistically significant gains in content knowledge from pre- to post-testing, with higher post-test scores compared with science teachers…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Rural Schools, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Xu, Yuejin – Research in the Schools, 2016
In this study, we examined the relationship between teachers' attitudes towards professional development and school performance in the state accountability system using the 2013 Kentucky Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) survey data and the 2013 school accountability profile data from the Kentucky Department of Education. We were…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Accountability, Academic Achievement
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Cotabish, Alicia; Dailey, Deborah; Hughes, Gail D.; Robinson, Ann – Research in the Schools, 2011
In order to increase the quality and quantity of science instruction, elementary teachers must receive professional development in science learning processes. The current study was part of a larger randomized field study of teacher and student learning in science. In two districts in a southern state, researchers randomly assigned teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Faculty Development, Control Groups, Experimental Groups