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Eric S. Taylor – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
When employees expect evaluation and performance incentives will continue (or begin) in the future, the potential future rewards create an incentive to invest in relevant skills today. Because skills benefit job performance, the effects of evaluation can persist after the rewards end or even anticipate the start of rewards. I provide empirical…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
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Yildizli, Hülya; Günaydin, Gülden – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2022
This study aims to investigate elementary school mathematics teachers' (teaching grades 5-8) questioning skills in class. It also includes observation of the questioning skills of two elementary school mathematics teachers teaching eighth grade. This mixed-methods research study follows an explanatory sequential design. Initially, quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Skills
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Manakul, Theeradej; Somabut, Anucha; Tuamsuk, Kulthida – Cogent Education, 2023
Smart teaching is an essential skill for teachers to effectively transform their classrooms into active learning environments. However, teachers need to have specific abilities to apply the smart teaching approach which comprised of pedagogy, technology, and classroom management. This research was conducted based on the Khon Kaen University Smart…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Active Learning, Junior High School Teachers, Outcomes of Education
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Azhar, Abukhanova; Nurgaliyeva, Gulshan; Nurlan, Abishev; Kairat, Omarov; Berikzhan, Oxikbayev; Mariyash, Aralbekova – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
The education system should be designed to help in the preparation of individuals for life in the 21st Century. The purpose of this study is to use the Lesson Study approach in studying the geography of the updated content, to improve the professional competencies of teachers based on the results of students' perception levels. The research…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Professionalism, Student Attitudes, Educational Quality
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Longhurst, Max L.; Jones, Suzanne H.; Campbell, Todd – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Understanding factors that influence teacher use of professional development learning is critical if we are to maximise the educational and financial investment in teacher development. This study used a multi-case mixed methodology to investigate the factors that influence teacher adoption, adaption, and abandonment of teacher-directed learning.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Walkinshaw Garris, Karen Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this exploratory study was to analyze the mainstream classroom teachers in this unique K-8 school setting report focusing on English Learners (ELs), what they perceive to be their roles and responsibilities in working with ELs, and what they want to learn further about ELs. For this study, mainstream teachers refer to those who…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Responsibility
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Weiland, Travis; Orrill, Chandra Hawley; Brown, Rachael Eriksen; Nagar, Gili Gal – Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
In this study, we investigated teachers' abilities correctly to identify situations that are appropriate for proportional reasoning and factors that might influence their ability using data on 148 teachers from the U.S. Learning Mathematics for Teaching assessment and other, similar items (with a smaller sample). Through a quantitative exploratory…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematical Logic, Teaching Skills
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Amani K. Hamdan Alghamdi; Saiqa Azam – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
Saudi students' science academic performance has declined as evidenced by (TIMSS). Saudi science teachers are characterized as using the lecture format without considering individual student differences and failing to provide differentiated Method (DM). This paper reports on an effort to help female Saudi pre-service science teachers (PSST)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Females
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
The "National Board for Professional Teaching Standards" ("NBPTS") establishes standards for accomplished teachers and awards professional certification to teachers who can demonstrate that their teaching practices meet those standards. Educators and experts in child development and related fields established the organization,…
Descriptors: Standards, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness
Goldhaber, Dan; Gratz, Trevor; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2016
We investigate the relationship between teacher licensure test scores and student test achievement and high school course-taking. We focus on three subject/grade combinations-- middle school math, ninth-grade algebra and geometry, and ninth-grade biology--and find evidence that a teacher's basic skills test scores are modestly predictive of…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Scores, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Sprague, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study used a validated student survey instrument to collect 182 Midwestern eighth-grade students' perceptions of effective teachers. Balch's (2011) survey was used. The original intent of this survey was to have students rate the effectiveness of one teacher. In this study, students were asked to rate teacher effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Surveys, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
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Liang, Su; Glaz, Sarah; DeFranco, Thomas; Vinsonhaler, Charles; Grenier, Robin; Cardetti, Fabiana – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013
This paper presents the findings of a study that examined the preparation and teaching practice of ten teachers of grades 7-12 from the Shandong province in China. This study revealed that a multi-dimensional training system has been developed to help the teachers gradually build up their knowledge base for teaching. The findings of this study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Teaching Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stevens, Tara; Aguirre-Munoz, Zenaida; Harris, Gary; Higgins, Raegan; Liu, Xun – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Profile analyses were used to investigate differences in the self-efficacy growth of teachers with more and less mathematics background as the teachers participated in professional development across two summers. Professional development activities were associated with increases in teachers' self-efficacy; however, without considering mathematics…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy
Kruse, Rebecca; Howes, Elaine V.; Carlson, Janet; Roth, Kathleen; Bourdelat-Parks, Brooke – Online Submission, 2013
AAAS and BSCS are collaborating to develop and study a curriculum unit that supports students' ability to explain a variety of biological processes such as growth in chemical terms. The unit provides conceptual coherence between chemical processes in nonliving and living systems through the core idea of atom rearrangement and conservation during…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Biology, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Loewen, David Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This exploratory correlational study seeks to answer the question of whether a relationship exists between student average test score gains on state exams and teachers' rating of values on the Schwartz Values Survey. Eighty-seven randomly selected Kansas teachers of math and/or reading, grades four through eight, participated. Student test score…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Reading Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 4
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