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Teacher training, teacher quality and student achievement
Douglas N. Harris,Tim R. Sass +1 more
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In this article, the effects of various types of education and training on the productivity of teachers in promoting student achievement were studied. But they did not find a consistent relationship between formal professional development training and teacher productivity, and they found no evidence that teachers' pre-service training or college entrance exam scores are related to productivity.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 1263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Professional development.read more
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O Efeito da Capacitação Docente no Desempenho Dos Alunos: Uma Contribuição para A Formulação de Novas Políticas Públicas de Melhoria da Qualidade da Educação Básica
TL;DR: A pesquisa de campo with 518 teachers at the Ensino Fundamental do Estado do Tocantins, Portugal as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of a program of capacitacao on the desempenho of alunos.
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Role of teacher-related factors and educational resources in science literacy: An international perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the relationship among teaching, leadership, teacher certification, student and teacher number related factors, and index of economic, social and cultural status (ESCS), and science literacy from an international comparative perspective.
The relationship between elementary teachers' years of experience and their self-perceived pedagogical competence in alabama elementary schools
TL;DR: In this article, a correlational study was conducted to determine whether a statistically significant relationship exists between years of teaching experience and elementary teachers' self-perceived effective pedagogical competence.
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Project Management Competencies of Educational Technology Professionals in Higher Education: A Qualitative Analysis of the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the competencies of project managers in the field of educational technology in the higher education context and present a conceptual framework based on the current definition of the educational technology; knowledge, skill, and ability (KSA) statements; and the sixth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,Eric A. Hanushek,John F. Kain,Steven G. Rivkin,Steven G. Rivkin +5 more
TL;DR: The authors disentangles the separate factors influencing achievement with special attention given to the role of teacher differences and other aspects of schools, and estimates educational production functions based on models of achievement growth with individual fixed effects.
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The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools.
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Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement
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Robust Inference with Multi-way Clustering
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