Title of Document: AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHER EFFICACY: A MULTIVARIATE, MULTILEVEL EXAMINATION Jessica Robyn Koehler, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor Gary Gottfredson Counseling and Personnel Services Teacher efficacy, the extent to which teachers feel they can influence student learning (Berman, McLaughlin, Bass, Pa...

Researchers at Washington State University conducted an independent evaluation of the first year of the Washington State Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder Pilot Program. The evaluation, which compared ladder centers with a control group, verified that the career and wage ladder works to improve the quality of early childhood education by reducing teacher turnover and encouraging ...

introduction: a strategic plan provides the context for improving organizational performance by accurate, extensive, and in-depth identification and analysis of interior and exterior environments. this study was performed to develop and execute a strategic plan at the medical sciences universities of iran. methods: this analytical and cross-sectional study was performed in 2012-2013. the study ...

We present the MLI (Mobile Lecture Interaction) application for enhancing lecture interaction between a teacher and the students. With their personal mobile phones students can anonymously ask questions and support questions from other students by voting for them. The questions and their support are displayed in real-time to the teacher who can then address them as (s)he finds appropriate. The ...

teacher autonomy is viewed very differently: one teacher may view autonomy as a means to gain substantial freedom from interference or supervision; another may view it as the freedom to develop collegial relationships and accomplish tasks that extend beyond the classroom; and even some others may perceive it as a means for principals to avoid their duties (frase and sorenson, 1992). although th...

introduction. the most important aim of teacher evaluation by students is feedback to teachers in order to inform the negative and positive points of their lectures and manners. the aim of this study was to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards the report of their evaluation results and effective factors in assessment variation. methods. the research was a descriptive study using a questionna...

Introduction. Evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. During the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. More studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. T...