Over the last few years, gamification has sparked significant interest in both industry and
academia. However, the focus of the debate has been mostly on game studies and human …

This article aims to review literature on feedback to teachers. Because research has hardly
focused on feedback among teachers, the review's scope also includes feedback in …

We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what
this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will …

Lately, scholars have argued that there is a consensus on a number of critical features of
effective teacher professional development (PD). This study presents the results of a …

This study identifies practices of effective teachers of writing. Three schools with significantly
higher achievement in an area that underperforms nationally were identified and within them …

The ability to express oneself clearly in both a mother tongue and a foreign language is a
foundation principle of the new national curriculum in Estonia. Therefore, research was …

This paper analyses the perceptions of teachers involved in postgraduate studies of the
importance of their study programme for their profession, describes the benefits of …

This study describes an inquiry approach involving a practitioner-researcher partnership
and examines its impact on teachers' capacities to conduct explicit instruction of disciplinary …

Over the past 30 years of literacy research, developments in sociocultural theories of literate
practice have turned many reading researchers from viewing text as the driver of literacy …

This paper traces the journeys of three middle-school teachers during a one-year
professional development focused on the education of multilingual youth. I explore (a) how …