Although wide variation in teacher effectiveness is well established, much less is known about differences in teacher improvement over time. We document that average returns to teaching experience mask large variation across individual teachers and across groups of teachers working in different schools. We examine the role of school context in explaining these differences using a measure of the...

Providing students in urban settings with quality teachers is important for student achievement. This study examined the differences in content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics, and teacher efficacy among several different types of alternatively certified teachers in a sample from the New York City Teaching Fellows program in order to determine teacher quality. Findings revealed that hig...

UNLABELLED Gaps in public knowledge about antibiotics have led to calls for public education campaigns about antibiotics, including education of school children. OBJECTIVE This study investigates New Zealand primary school teachers' current level of knowledge about antibiotics, to assess whether this is adequate for providing accurate education for children. METHODS Two hundred and sixty-si...

How can the Internet be used to provide authentic professional development for newly appointed teachers? This paper reports on work-in-progress of an industry partnership research study between Edith Cowan University education staff and students, and the Education Department of Western Australia teachers and curriculum advisers. The study involves developing a web site to assist novice teachers...

We aimed to determine whether primary school teachers’ motivational regulations to exercise and self efficacy in delivering a physical education (PE) lesson are different based on prior PE training. Two groups of qualified primary school teachers were recruited; PE specialists and a group of generalist primary school teachers who also teach PE. All teachers completed the Behavioural Regulation ...

One hundred seventy-six teachers employed in prekindergarten programs in Nebraska’s public schools were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the administrative supports and challenges associated with their programs. Both early childhood and early childhood special education teachers participated. Overall findings suggest that most administrators of early childhood programs advocate for quali...

Teachers in the US have been increasingly adopting mobile devices for teaching, but little research has examined how pre-service teachers perceive mobile device integration in classrooms. To address this issue, the study developed a research model that explained factors affecting pre-service teachers’ intention to use mobile devices and the relationship among the factors. A total of 386 pre-ser...

The study examined attitude of teachers towards the teaching profession. The study utilized descriptive survey research design. A total number of 150 teachers were randomly selected from secondary schools in the study area. Instrument titled `` Attitude of teachers towards teaching `` was developed, validated and administered to the respondents. Respondents have a mean age of 30 years and have ...

Wepropose a probabilistic graphical model for predicting student attainment in web-based education. We empirically evaluate our model on a crowdsourced datasetwith students and teachers;Teachers prepared lessons on various topics. Students read lessons by various teachers and then solved amultiple choice exam. Ourmodel gets input data regarding past interactions between students and teachers an...

This research paper documents what learning designs, teaching methods and teaching activities were most commonly used by pre-service teachers and experienced teachers as observed by the preservice teachers when on their practicum visits in schools. The paper also outlines the benefits of documenting learning designs so that good teaching practice might be shared. Using case study methodology, t...