Quality of Distance Education in Turkey: Preschool Teacher Training Case

Curriculum Evaluation of Teacher Training Courses in Education

Curriculum Evaluation of Teacher Training Courses in Education G. Ahmadi, Ph. D. The two year teacher training programs in Iran include courses in education that form the very foundation of the professional performance of the future teachers. As such, the curricula of these courses need to be evaluated in order to determine their probable shortcomings and take the necessary remedial steps...

Teacher Training, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...

Implementing the Flipped Classroom in Teacher Education: Evidence from Turkey

The flipped classroom, a form of blended learning, is an emerging instructional strategy reversing a traditional lecture-based teaching model to improve the quality and efficiency of the teaching and learning process. The present article reports a study that focused on the implementation of the flipped approach in a higher education institution in Turkey. For this pretest-posttest quasi-experim...

Quality of Continuing Education: a Quebec Example in Teacher Education

Confronted with the diverse problems that university continuing education is facing, our presentation focuses on the continuing education of primary and secondary school teachers which indeed, is experiencing two problems: a decrease in government funding, and a decline in numbers, for university continuing education seems irrelevant for teachers who register in it. We choose to broach the ques...

Distance Education and Teaching Issues: Are Teacher Training and Compensation Keeping Up with Institutional Demands?