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Ansah-Hughes, Winifred – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine job satisfaction among teachers in the Techiman Municipality. Three hundred and six (306) teachers were randomly sampled from a total of one thousand four hundred and sixty-one (1461) Junior High School and Senior High School teachers in the Municipality. The instrument used for the data collection was the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Junior High Schools
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Chi, ShaoHui; Wang, Zuhao; Liu, Xiufeng; Zhu, Lei – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This study investigated the associations among students' attitudes towards science, students' perceived difficulty of learning science, gender, parents' occupations and their scientific competencies. A sample of 1591 (720 males and 871 females) ninth-grade students from 29 junior high schools in Shanghai completed a scientific competency test and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Science Education, Correlation, Student Attitudes
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Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng; Chen, Jyun-Chen; Hong, Kunde – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Technical and vocational education emphasizes the development and training of hand motor skills. However, some problems exist in the current career and aptitude tests in that they do not truly measure the hand motor skills. This study used the Nintendo Wii Remote Controller as the testing device in developing a set of computerized testing tools to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Psychomotor Skills, Computer Assisted Testing, Performance Tests
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Ahmad; Sukardi, Tanto – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study was aimed at describing the implementation of an apprenticeship for the second semester students held by the Faculty of Teacher, Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, in two points: 1) the school condition, and 2) the students' understanding about the level of teacher professionalism. This study belonged to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Apprenticeships, Observation
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Morettini, Brianne W. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2014
Prompted by the emergence of alternative pathways to teacher certification as well as federal, state, and local policy directives aimed at raising student achievement, this study explores the extent to which prospective teachers' reasons to teach have or have not changed since before the enactment of such changes in public schools. In addition,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Professional Personnel, Alternative Teacher Certification, Career Change
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Goldring, Rebecca; Taie, Soheyla; Riddles, Minsun – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This report presents selected findings from the Current Teacher and Former Teacher Data Files of the 2012-13 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS). TFS is a nationally representative sample survey of public and private school K-12 teachers who participated in the previous year's Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). First fielded in school year 1988-89,…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Questionnaires
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Sixteen years have elapsed since a committee of the business education department of the National Education Association submitted a report on the commercial curriculum with somewhat detailed treatment of the various subjects of study. Four years ago another committee of the same department made a less complete report. Subsequent changes in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Secondary Education, Educational Change