Empirical Research
Web-Enhanced Instruction: A Mixed Bag
Reviewed By Carol A. Mullen
Volume 3 - Issue 3
Feb 13, 2007 - 4:33:03 PM
Abstract
This paper offers a summative assessment of a web-enhanced doctoral course taught in an educational leadership program at a Florida research university. This study extends the current focus in the distance learning literature on undergraduate and masters education. By widening this scope, awareness can be fostered of the need to study distance learning as an emerging trend for doctoral education. Results obtained from original instruments highlight contradictions and possibilities of student development via distance learning. Lessons learned and recommendations for improving hybrid approaches to doctoral education are provided.
Empirical Research
Teacher Perceptions of Systems-Driven Quality Teaching Initiatives:
Reviewed By Dr. Carol Mullen, Ph. D. : Kimberlyn R. Slagle, B.A.
Volume 3 - Issue 1
Feb 13, 2007 - 4:47:12 PM
Abstract
This qualitative multisite study offers a preliminary case exemplar that explores systems-driven teaching initiatives in
Florida , specifically, the BEST Teaching Salary Career Ladder Program. Teacher leaders’ perceptions of this policy-driven school reform model were analyzed using survey, interview, and observation data collected from elementary, middle, and secondary public school levels. Not only do the researchers provide teacher responses, but they also deconstruct the policy, which uses the rhetoric of mentoring for accountability purposes. This discussion also examines the BEST Teaching Salary Career Ladder Program within the related contexts of differentiated staffing, performance pay, teacher leadership, mentoring, and school culture.
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