RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE (2007 PREL Compendium)

This issue of Research Into Practice, PREL’s annual research compendium, brings together articles detailing research conducted recently by PREL and our partners. The articles focus on putting research findings to work to improve education. This issue addresses:

• complex issues surrounding language-in-education policy in Micronesia
• bringing together understandings of language and literacy in English and the L1
• building the capacity of evaluators in the Pacific
  
• developing a new way of offering professional development to not only novice and experienced teachers of mathematics, but also to the mentors of those teachers, all of whom reside on remote Pacific islands
  
• establishing a mentoring program for novice teachers to develop in them the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to be effective teachers of mathematics
  
• nurturing effective mathematics instruction in novice and experienced teachers in the South and Western Pacific
  
• building capacity in deaf education in American Samoa to improve services for deaf children, value American sign language, and promote deaf cultural pride
  
• the struggle to provide quality education to as many students as possible in Micronesia, in spite of rapid changes in both living and learning environments
  
• how understanding the various aspects of culture can shed light on how students learn
  
• the challenge of accomplishing proficiency in oral and written language in a multicultural, multilingual society

The articles in this volume were originally published or presented in other forms—many with very limited circulation—as articles in refereed journals, as reports to funding authorities, as doctoral dissertations, or as commissioned white papers. We bring these works together in one volume to share them with a wider audience of our constituents and partners. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the body of work that supports education in the Pacific and around the world.

The 77-page Compendium is available via download only.

Table of Contents and Preface
PDF (48K)

The Language Question in Pacific Education: The Case of the Republic of the Marshall Islands by Marylin Low, PhD, Destin Penland, and Hilda Heine, EdD
PDF (244M)

Lost in Translation: From English to Pacific Languages in Early Reading Assessment by Marylin Low, PhD, and Rodrigo Mauricio
PDF (420K)

A Demonstration of Capacity Building in Evaluation via Distance Learning for the United States-Affiliated Pacific: A Master’s Degree Program in Evaluation by Mary B. Church, PhD
PDF (296K)

Mathematics Education in Micronesia: Building Local Capacity to Provide Professional Development for Teachers of Mathematics by A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, PhD
PDF (180K)

Project MENTOR: Assessing the Growth of Mathematical Content Knowledge by A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, PhD, Kyaw Soe, PhD, Joseph Zilliox, PhD, and Alicia Aguon, PhD
PDF (92K)

Mathematics Education in the South and Western Pacific:
Building Local Capacity to Support Teachers of Mathematics by A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, PhD
PDF (76K)

Technology Supports for Deaf Education and Deaf Community Building in American Samoa by James Skouge, EdD, Nancy Bridenbaugh, Linda Lambrecht, and Kavita Rao
PDF (168K)

Rethinking Education In Micronesia (Strengthening Leadership and Commitment to Education) by Masa-Aki N. Emesiochl
PDF (120K)

Leading With Diversity: Culture by Elise Trumbull, PhD, and Maria Pacheco, PhD
PDF (372K)

Leading with Diversity: Language by Elise Trumbull, PhD, and Maria Pacheco, PhD
PDF (248K)

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