Hi The Best Group,
In the meantime, we think that it is the most convenient way to post this on our blog because under that particular posting on your blog, we could not put on our feedback.
Your PowerPoint slides clearly stated the 2 research questions to be studied. In the major conclusions, we can see the first question was being answered but not the second question, i.e. how does teachers’ preparation relate to their teaching practices?
In the conclusions the authors mentioned the limitations of this study. These limitations, such as the qualitative perspective adopted in Year 1 was not designed to lead to casual inferences and the difficulties in data collection due to attrition of participants, may somehow affect the validity of the conclusions.
However, we think that this research has a good justification of its research objective. While the findings are quite obvious, they do offer scientific research evidences to show that a high quality teacher preparation program has positive effect on teachers entering into the profession and also on the adoption of effective teaching practices of these teachers. This helps fill an important gap in knowledge. The study also suggested the need to have further research on teacher preparation and more policy studies that monitor the influence of legislative mandates and certification requirements on teacher preparation programs. These are important research areas given their impact on teaching training and student learning.
The design of this research was quasi-experimental. We found that like experimental research, this kind of research seeks to discover casual relationships. Quasi-experimental research has subjects, treatment, etc., but uses nonrandomized groups. It incorporates interpretation and transferability in order to compensate for lack of control of variables.
Lastly, it would be interested to see similar kinds of research studies conducted in Hong Kong to look at the effects of teachers' participation and completion of a teaching education program on their experiences and practices.
Fantastic 4
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