Tutors often have difficulty in accurately assessing their tutees‟ understanding. However, it is unclear how tutors‟ professional experience influences their assessment accuracy. Therefore, we conducted a study with N = 46 tutor-tutee dyads and compared the accuracy with which teacher tutors and student tutors assessed a tutee‟s understanding of the human circulatory system at the level of ment...

The purpose of this study was to examine to what extend classroom management efficacy, marital status, gender, and teaching experience predict burnout among primary school teachers. Participants of this study were 523 (345 female, 178 male) teachers who completed inventories. The results of multiple regression analysis indicated that three dimensions of teacher burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, De...

The extensive investigation of the contribution of teachers to student achievement produces two generally accepted results. First, there is substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by the value added to achievement or future academic attainment or earnings. Second, variables often used to determine entry into the profession and salaries, including post-graduate schooling, experience...

Purpose of this investigation is to study the Human Resources Development in the context of challenges of globalization with reference to Teacher Education in Bangladesh. A study of this kind would highlight the dimensions, which can be manipulated to upgrade the human resources development in teacher educators working in institutes of teacher education to rapidity in contest of international t...

The Hindu Vedas place teachers on a high pedestal: “a guru creates and sustains knowledge, and destroys the weeds of ignorance, just like the creator, the sustainer, and the destroyer of this universe”. It is no surprise then that students see teachers as authority figures that teach them the truth. Thus, the teacher has a profound responsibility to guide students by helping them to assimilate ...

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...

Most empirical teacher attrition research focuses on estimating the effect of either the alternate occupation opportunities or the teacher work environment on teacher attrition. In this paper, we use non-teaching wages of former teachers to estimate the determinants of teacher attrition, including the wage differential between teaching and non-teaching occupations, as well as the teacher work e...

Sadly, there are commonly divides between the worlds of theory, practice and policy; in this paper I draw on 20 years experience in the Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL) and a range of other projects that have involved forms of teacher research to discuss how both the process and the products of teacher research can help bridge these divides. The paper looks at three areas where P...