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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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Influence of middle leadership in promoting teacher continuing professional development: perspectives from middle leaders in Singapore primary schools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4 Table 5 Table 1.1 Table 2.2 Table 3.3 Table 4.2
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What matters to principals when they evaluate teachers? Evidence from Cyprus
TL;DR: This article examined whether principals can distinguish effective and ineffective teachers and whether principals identify the teacher, principal and school characteristics influencing principals' evaluations of teacher effectiveness, and found that principal ratings contain enough discriminating ability both within teachers and with school characteristics.
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Investigating Multiple Intelligence-Based Instructions Approach on Performance Improvement of Indonesian Elementary Madrasah Teachers:
TL;DR: In this article, a study was designed to promote teachers' understanding of the learner-centered approach through training the multiple intelligences-based instructions, improve teachers' performance in designin...
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Buenos docentes universitarios: ¿Qué dicen los estudiantes?
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study with students from the Faculty of education at Autonoma University of Chile, Talca headquarters, showed that the students value a good teacher when he has features that are combined in the pedagogical, human, and ideological aspects and those teachers that prioritize the learning process of the students at all times.
Defining and Building Excellence: A Model for Professional Development at Arete Charter School
TL;DR: In this article, a model for professional development utilizing the Partnership Approach (Knight, 2007, 2011) and aligned to Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Development with the goal of humanizing the profession and offering a clearly articulated philosophy and set of actions is presented.
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