This study compared four ways of responding to EFL students in writing class to study whether they resulted in different outcomes in term of student‟s errors in writing. A total of 119 intermediate level students were selected as subjects, including students from three English reading and writing classes, and some voluntary participants. The students of three English reading and writing classes...

The present study investigated specific teacher factors that potentially influence teacher–child relationships with preschool-age children. One demographic questionnaire and three rating scales were used to survey 152 head teachers of 3–6-year-old children in community-based childcare and preschool centers in one midwestern state. There were 46 teachers who reported on their relationship with a...

The substantial ‘value-added’ literature that seeks to measure the overall impact of teachers on student achievement does not distinguish between teacher effects that are invariant to prevailing incentives and those that are responsive to them. In contrast, we develop an empirical approach that, for the first time, allows us to separate out incentive-varying teacher effort from incentiveinvaria...

The main goal of this study is to evaluate primary teacher education programs in Croatia. Prior to evaluation of the primary teacher education programs, expected primary teacher education competencies were defined. The expected teacher competencies were determined according to the goals stated in the Croatian national curriculum. In addition, international guidelines for information literacy de...

The quality of education depends on the quality of technology. Information and communication technology (ICT) has become popular within a very short time one of the basic building blocks of modern society. The present study was aim to find out the perception of teacher trainees towards learning through information and communication technologies. The objectives of the study were to find out the ...

Although teacher enthusiasm is a relevant variable in the teaching context, a clear definition is still lacking. Research on teacher enthusiasm is characterized by ambiguous conceptualizations of enthu siasm as either an affective characteristic of teachers or behaviors of expressiveness. Integrating these two notions, a new conceptualization of dispositional teacher enthusiasm, defined by teac...

Teacher development has emerged over the last decade as an identiŽ able area of study and much has been written on the subject. The teacher development literature has served to disseminate information on and ideas for improving teachers’ and, by extension, schools’ performance. It has provided the forum for discussion about the future of the teaching profession and the nature of teaching as a j...

Research consistently shows that teacher quality is a powerful determinant of student achievement gains, yet, urban school districts often struggle to staff their schools with qualified teachers. This problem seems to begin with teacher recruitment. In order to improve teacher recruitment, a popular intervention for urban school districts is raising teacher salaries to improve the school distri...

During the past several decades, scholarly consideration has focused on the concept of teacher knowledge and a variety of reform efforts to rethink both the structure and practices of teacher education to enhance teacher preparation process. As a consequence, the tripartite knowledge base of EFL teacher training is built on the partnership between universities and schools to support student tea...

It is widelv accepted that teachers differ in their effectiveness, yet the empirical evidence regarding teacher effectiveness is weak. The existing evidence is mainly drawn from econometric studies that use covariates to attempt to controlfbr selec tion effects that might bias results. We use data from a four-year experiment in which teachers and students were randomly assigned to classes to es...