The Indonesia Open University (Universitas Terbuka or UT) face-to-face tutoring program for in-service teacher training is intended to improve teacher trainees' course completion rates. The university has attempted to intensify trainees' motivation to participate in the tutoring…
One of the problems of public bureaucracy in Saudi Arabia has been the shortage of qualified human resources, particularly at the executive level. The Saudi government has responded to this problem by establishing training and development programs for its executives to provide t…
Many prescriptive models have been developed for planning, designing, implementing and evaluating training programs, but little is known about the effectiveness of the different training models. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare two formal administrative in-s…
The purpose of this study was to determine agricultural officers' in-service educational needs for precision agriculture in the province of Balochistan-Pakistan through Remote Sensing technology. Their competence (knowledge) level in specific units of remote sensing and its rela…
The phrase "nature of science" has been used to refer to "the epistemology of science, science as a way of knowing, or the values and beliefs inherent to the development of scientific knowledge" (Lederman, Abd-El-Khalick, Bell, & Schwartz, 2002, p. 497). Despite the disagreement…
An Ethiopian cluster-based in-service teacher professional development program used student-centered strategies to increase teacher knowledge and skills, thereby improving teacher pedagogy and, theoretically, increasing student achievement. This program is similar to dozens of o…
Preschools in Saudi Arabia have been around and continuously growing and improving for more than 40 years. These programs, however, still collectively suffer from the lack of utilization of classroom assessments to support learning and help teachers make decisions about curricul…
This targeted research study, carried out by an officer of the Turkish National Police (TNP), investigated the perceptions and beliefs of TNP trainers and trainees towards the potential adoption and implementation of e-learning technology for in-service police training. Utilizin…
The purposes of this study were to identify the in-service needs of high school science teachers in Istanbul, Turkey according to the subgroups such as school type and gender and determine the priority obstacles preventing these science teachers from attendance at in-service pro…