Standards Based Professional Learning

Professional Development measures the degree to which teachers value continuous personal development and school-wide improvement.

4. What are the limitations of the survey method, and how would you overcome the limitations of this research method, or any research approach?

Internal validity of this study included data collection process and student personal interest in education. For example, students may have scored in exam because they concern about their own education. Reliability of this study instrument has not been tested. This is the first time this group will have this survey. There is no former survey to use as a standard to see if there are many changes.

The Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson has been developed through research as a guideline for current and future teacher’s professional responsibilities in and out of the classroom. Districts throughout the country are using this framework to assess and guide their teachers to build successful methods of planning and preparations, setting up the classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities. Each of these domains builds off of each other to form a successful learning environment. Domain 3 focuses more specifically on instruction using communication, discussions, engagement, assessments and flexibility.

This survey spans across the mid-level and high-level schools of United States, which are believed to represent a cross-section of the national population. About 66 – 80% of the American schools participate in the survey on an average, and the students’ participation rate stands at an average of 79 – 83%.

However, the fact that the study only focused on a small group (a specific university students), a specific race (whites), one specific social class (middle class), and one gender (female) makes the credibility of the findings questionable because we cannot use them to develop a general conclusion to represent all the teachers. The researcher also acknowledged this by stating that the findings from the study can be used to inform other groups, but is not meant to be representative of all teacher researcher groups (Vetter,

Professional development is a requirement in order to guarantee that current teachers are able to provide students with the tools necessary to succeed in school. For years, professional development has been limited to mandating that all teachers receive the same, exclusive training methods. Research has

In survey design and administration, there are various approaches, which can be utilized to assess validity and reliability of a survey instrument. These approaches are used to make certain that the survey instrument accurately captures the data that is need as well as provides reliable results of over time (Phillips, Phillips, Aaron, 2013). To assess, the validity and reliability of a survey instrument, researchers conduct a review of validity and reliability during survey pilot testing (Phillips et al., 2013).

For me, I do not have enough knowledge about this project and there are so many topics that I do not have an enough in depth knowledge.And I am serious about the part of doing a questionnaire survey.

We designed a survey in class to collect information of how people interest in our designs. Then, we spent a week to interview people. So, our samples might be limited on time, space and quantity. Also, people might make choices without thinking due to the questionnaires are just imagined designs other than real products. It is reasonable to consider that those problems may lead to inaccurate data which may disturb the analysis result.

Out of the seven surveys that were sent out, six were completed. Of the six teachers, none were male, and none were minority. The teachers ranged in experience from seven years to 40 years. Three of the teachers (T1, T2, and T5) have master’s degrees, and three of the teachers have bachelor’s degrees. T5 and T6 teach at the junior high level. Copies of the surveys were printed and placed them in the teacher’s mailboxes. Attached to the survey was a questionnaire that asked for years of service and education information. The surveys were submitted anonymously.

The survey will include statements about small and large classes, student behavior, student and teacher relationships and planning and instruction time. Each statement will be labeled 1-5 to calculate the responses. I will analyze the results of the survey by calculating the mode and median of the responses. The mode will be the determining factor of the findings/results of the study.

The second fixed data entail a three questions mailed or e-mail questionnaire to all school principals in the LUSD-SW

Our school has many resources and I wanted to know if faculty members knew about all of the resources, how often they used these resources, and what department did they work in, to determine if one department was more informed about our resources. I felt this was the first step in determining if additional resources were needed. Through talking with James, the director of the EJME as well as my principal, Jennie, it was determined that a survey would work best, and that it should be limited in the number of questions, containing no open-ended questions that would require writing. Everyone felt that teachers might be more willing to complete the survey if it were shorter, so I ended up with only four questions in the survey that required

Multiple variables of data can be captured at a time as participants are required to provide detail information such as name, gender, address etc. while doing the survey.