The literature base on technology professional development for teachers reveals that there
is a long way to go in understanding methods of effective practice with respect to the various …

The Regional Educational Laboratory-Southwest (REL Southwest) conducted a systematic
and comprehensive review of the research-based evidence on the effects of professional …

Recent changes in the United States education system have accelerated the need for
enhanced technology-based teaching and learning techniques (ie, digital literacy) and …

This paper examines the options available to states to redefine their accountability systems
as they begin to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The new law provides …

This study uses a national probability sample of 1,027 mathematics and science teachers to
provide the first large-scale empirical comparison of effects of different characteristics of …

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher
professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet …

The present article reports the results of a study performed to investigate and examine the
characteristics of a teachers' professional development program (Teachers' Professional …

Over the past decade, education reform and teacher training projects have spent a great
deal of effort to create and support sustainable, scalable online communities of education …

With this article, we begin a special section dedicated to the link bet\veen research and
practice. This article by Loucks-Horsley and Matsumoto is focused on the influence of …

This chapter describes the adaptation of the case study method to assessing increasingly
complex, comprehensive reform initiatives that highlight the blurring of the boundaries …