Practitioners’ Self-Evaluations of Contrasting Types of Professional Development
- 1 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Early Intervention
- Vol. 32 (4), 239-254
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1053815110384702
Abstract
The effects of three types of in-service training on practitioners’ self-evaluations of evidence-based preschool classroom practices were evaluated in a study of 255 participants from 26 states. Participants attended either conference presentations or 1-day or 2- to 3-day workshops or received one of two types of intensive in-service training (weeklong institutes or on-site training in the participants’ classrooms). Study participants made self-ratings of the usefulness of the training content and the extent to which the training changed or improved their classroom practices, 1 or 6 months after training. Results show that both types of intensive in-service training are more effective than either conference presentations or workshops and that on-site training is more effective than weeklong institutes in affecting study participants’ judgments of the in-service training. The findings are discussed in terms of the characteristics of in-service training most likely to change or improve preschool classroom practices.Keywords
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