Research Methods … cont.
•4. Influence of a Teacher Workshop 
•Teacher training workshop sites representing different community size areas were selected. 
•Individual telephone interviews were conducted with 24 teachers within six months after teachers participated in a training workshop to:  
–determine if there was a relationship between workshop attendance and curriculum use;
–determine if teachers were receiving adequate information on best practices for current state and national educational standards;
–develop guidelines for an optimal training workshop model or delivery mechanism to meet curriculum goals and objectives; and
–to make comparisons between information gathered from teacher surveys and interviews with teachers who attended training workshops.
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