Collecting both qualitative and quantitative data provides an opportunity to determine the degree to which an instructor's description of teaching beliefs (qualitative) converges or diverges with their conceptualizations of those same beliefs as revealed in self-report surveys (quantitative; Creswell and Plano Clark 2011).
For example, a teacher with a 'Transmitter' profile can guide students in a student-centred learning environment, but may experience a dissonance in the description of teaching.
Each IU was peer-reviewed by fellow participants, as well as by a professional project consultant who has extensive experience with Web-based description of teaching materials using this format (Manduca et al., 2006).
Postareff et al. introduced the description 'consonance or dissonance in the description of teaching' [ 22].
The resulting 10 COPUS profiles provide a fine-grained description of teaching styles ranging from more teacher centered to more student centered.
His exquisite description of teaching highs and lows resonated with my own teaching experiences, first as a middle school science teacher and now as a professor of science methods for preservice and in-service teachers.
To ensure that we were not influenced by the description of teaching in one domain for the other, two researchers (IS and TSH) analyzed all the data from phase one independently from the perspective of teaching patients, and two researchers (JB and TSH) analyzed it from the perspective of teaching trainees.
The job description was changing after Longfellow; instead of teaching languages directly, Lowell would supervise the department and deliver two lecture courses per year on topics of his own choosing.
The Temporary Worker Agreement was removed from view and the description of Teach Higher was changed, to present it as a department of the university rather than a separate company.
From X's descriptions of his teaching — rallying his students' spirits, charming them into discarding low expectations of themselves, editing drafts for hours with the group — I began to suspect that his work was more valuable than his repeated self-deprecations suggested, even if none of his students ever hand in an A paper, a standard he likens to "an essay by David Foster Wallace".
