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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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The Effect of Training and Supervision on Teacher Performance through Teacher Competence as a Mediating Variable in Primary Schools
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of training and supervision on teacher performance through teacher competence as a mediating variable in primary schools is analyzed using a quantitative approach to prove the correlation and causal relationship.
Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better
TL;DR: Work-based welfare reform aligns the structure of the safety net with the central values of Americans who are not on welfare as discussed by the authors, and the idea that work is the gateway to self-sufficiency and the way out of poverty is a simple, powerful message.
That’s Not in My Position Description: A Discourse Analysis Study of SBAE Teacher Migratory Context
TL;DR: Haddad et al. as discussed by the authors conceptualized teacher migration as a social interaction, drawing on the work of the International Symposium on Teacher Migration (Penson & Yonemura, 2012), the concept of socialization (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Blumer, 2018; Mead, 2018), and current data discussing teacher mobility in the United States.
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Effects of school closures on displaced students and future cohorts
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of school closures on student achievement were investigated through a quasiexperimental study of all public middle school closures in Sweden from 2000 to 2012 utilizing family fixed effects.
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Teacher Preparation and Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy in Literacy Instruction:
TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which traditional and alternative preparation programs differ in terms of their program components, as well as whether program type was relate to program component type, and found that traditional preparation programs were more similar to alternative programs than alternative programs.
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