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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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Special education and subject teachers’ self-perceived readiness to teach mathematics to low-performing middle school students
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the perceived teacher efficacy beliefs of special education and mathematics teachers when teaching mathematics to low-performing middle school students, and found that special education teachers had higher teacher efficacy belief than mathematics teachers.
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Optimizing Teacher Quality Based on Student Performance: A Data Envelopment Analysis on PISA and TALIS.
Rza Mammadov,İsmail Çimen +1 more
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Tensions Between What Principals Know and Do: The Role of Labor Market Conditions on Teacher Recruitment and Hiring
TL;DR: The availability of supply is a significant barrier that affects principals' processes for teacher staffing as discussed by the authors, and the availability of teachers is a critical lever for improving school outcomes, which is a challenge faced by teachers.
Differentiated Instruction in a Standards-Based Middle School Science Classroom
TL;DR: Hogan et al. as discussed by the authors explored the perceptions of science teachers regarding how they apply differentiated instruction and what obstacles they encountered in their application of DI methods in their classes. But, they found that the teachers experienced successes and difficulties in implementing differentiated instruction strategies in science.
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The Relationship between In-Service Training and Teaching Skills with Student Achievement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between the level of in-service training (IST) needs and teachers' teaching skills to students' achievement in secondary schools in the state of Perak, Malaysia.
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