Teaching for Excellence. Honors Pedagogies revealed

Table of contents, List of tables, List of figures

1 Introduction

1.1 Research problem and research questions

1.2 Honors education

1.3 Conceptual issues

1.4 Relevance of this study

1.5 About this study

2 Honors teaching and the honors teacher, a literature survey

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Honors teaching

2.3 Honors teachers

3 Methods

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Questionnaire

3.3 Interviews

3.4 Methodological caveats and limitations

4 American honors teachers: thoughts about honors education

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Conceptions of teaching

4.3 Honors education

4.4 Motivation

4.5 Students

4.6 Conclusions

5 American honors teachers: approaches in honors education

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Honors classes and regular classes: priorities in teacher behavior

5.3 Teaching approaches – survey results

5.4 Teaching approaches – teachers’ stories

5.5 Conclusions

6 Dutch honors teachers – questionnaire results and comparisons

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Conceptions of teaching and learning

6.3 Motivation

6.4 Students

6.5 Honors teaching

6.6 Conclusion

7 Conclusions and discussion

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Conclusions

7.3 Discussion

Reference list

Summary

Samenvatting (Summary in Dutch)

Appendix 1 - Questionnaire

Appendix 2 – Statistical analyses

Acknowledgements