A tuition-free teacher candidate is an undergraduate who receives tuition-free teacher education and must work as a teacher in a middle school after their graduation. Tuition-free candidates are of the focus of many researchers; however, no study reports how tuition-free teacher candidates think about teachers. The present study explored stereotypes about middle school and university teachers h...

The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

Information and communication technology (ICT) tools have been widely used in teaching and learning foreign languages at all universities in Vietnam with a view to improving the quality of teaching and learning. However, little has been known about how ICT facilities have been used in language teaching, as well as the factors which could possibly enable or hinder teachers’ use of ICT. This conf...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors effecting information and communication technology (ict) usage in kharazmi university in iran and provide insight into the teachers' points of views. among 300 university teachers, 97 were selected randomly to answer the questionnaire. a researcher-made likert-type questionnaire was developed using the modules of the ict foundation. for c...

This paper describes two studies of class size effects on achievement and dropout rates in (traditional) calculus at the university level. The first involved one teacher in both a large and a small section of calculus. The second included four teachers, each in both large and small sections of calculus. After accounting for other significant factors, we found that class size itself was not a st...

Teachers Participating in Professional Learning Activities: The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Administrative Factors   M. AhmadYoosofi* H. Motaharinejaad, Ph.D. ** H. Aazari, Ph.D. ***   To help with the improvement in professional learning of teachers the opinions of 190 elementary school teachers on developmental leadership, cooperation among teachers, internalization ...