Sentence examples for instructional climate from inspiring English sources

From these empirically-derived themes, we generated the initial item pool for the current instructional climate survey (CICS).

There are also subtle distinctions between measuring the instructional climate of an institution as compared to faculty members' perceptions of the climate.

Given this context, our research questions include: (1) When attempting to measure the construct of instructional climate, what are the reliable and valid components or factors that emerge?

However, our interest is in the faculty perceptions of the instructional climate, which includes more than the pedagogies selected for use.

Measuring the instructional climate of a college or university is important if the desired goal is to create and measure transformational change around teaching and learning.

The development of such measures is the precise focus of this study, more specifically, to develop a measure of current instructional climate and EBIP adoption stage.

They have also long predicted that the law will, over time, determine that all but a handful of schools are failing — a label that would demoralize educators, lower property values and mislead parents about the instructional climates in their schools.

Only a few school characteristics, such as school climate, instructional activities and teacher characteristics were found to be associated with school achievement in some countries.

Fortunately, we already know that 1) it's possible to turn around low-achieving schools, 2) successful turnarounds focus on five common elements to turn themselves around - leadership, instructional improvement, curriculum, school climate, and parent and community involvement and support, and 3) they implement common practices to carry out each element.

Within the current climate of instructional reform in STEM courses at the undergraduate level, there is a critical need to develop tools that easily but reliably measure instructional practices.

Other key technical components for successful schools reforms include the professional capacity of faculty and staff, a student-centered learning climate, and an instructional guidance system.