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Mohammad Ajmal Khuram; Yoko Ishida; Ghulam Dastgir khan; Nematullah Hotak; Masaood Moahid; Yuichiro Yoshida – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study focused on job satisfaction and motivation factors of schoolteachers from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Primary survey data from 378 teachers in Kabul were used in a randomized conjoint experiment to measure the causal effects of the proposed motivation policy's relevant attributes on teachers' satisfaction. The suggested…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Teacher Salaries, Faculty Development, Teaching Load
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Gobena, Gemechu Abera – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2022
The study aimed at assessing teaching stress on in-service teachers' motivation and its implication for quality education in Ethiopian Secondary Schools. A correlational research design was employed. The target population for this study was one higher learning institution's three college in-service teachers who attend their upgrading degree. 358…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Educational Quality, Anxiety
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Kavenuke, Patrick Severine; Kayombo, Joel Jonathan; Kinyota, Mjege – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
Teachers enter the profession with enthusiasm for the new adventure. Unfortunately, when they start working, they encounter circumstances that give rise to stress. The present study, which used a sample of 550 participants from 50 primary schools selected from the Kisarawe district in the Coastal Region of Tanzania, examines the extent of stress…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Stress Variables
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Cox, Deniese – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2021
It has long been understood that a teacher's conception of teaching -- that is, what they believe and know about teaching -- influences their enacted practice. However, it has also been found that enacted practice is affected by teaching context. This small study of online vocational education teachers at a single institution in Australia…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Context Effect, Online Courses, Vocational Education Teachers
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Al-Maqbali, Asma Hilal; Raja Hussain, Raja Maznah – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
With the emergence of COVID-19, many educational pillars have been altered from conventional ways to online solutions. The educational assessment has been administered in online environments despite all encountered challenges. This descriptive study aimed to uncover the online assessment challenges that were confronted. Furthermore, it intended to…
Descriptors: Barriers, Computer Assisted Testing, COVID-19, Pandemics
Hemelt, Steven W.; Stange, Kevin M.; Furquim, Fernando; Simon, Andrew; Sawyer, John E. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018
The private return to postsecondary investment varies widely by field, but the resources required by different fields are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs using novel department-level data. First, costs vary widely across field, ranging from electrical engineering (109 percent higher costs than English) to…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Finance, Differences, Class Size
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Akello, Lucy Dora; Timmerman, M. C. Greetje – Educational Action Research, 2018
This paper documents teachers' assessment practices and pupils' learning to read and write in large classes. To gain insights into the assessment practices and pupils' learning, the principles of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and participatory action research (PAR) design were adopted. Collaboratively, teachers reflected on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Wamukuru, David Kuria – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The secondary school teacher labour market faces many challenges including, escalating teacher wage bill, teacher shortages that occur alongside teacher surpluses, inadequate teacher distribution and inefficient teacher utilization. There is the need therefore to understand the effects of the factors determining demand for secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Public School Teachers, Teacher Shortage
Alexander, Mark L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online learning has caused a seismic shift in higher education since its rise beginning at the turn of the century. A portion of that impact has been on the ascent of the part-time employee teaching online. Adjunct instructors account for the overwhelming majority of the faculty providing education to these online learners. Because an instructor's…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Part Time Employment, Web Based Instruction, Adjunct Faculty
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Bruen, Jennifer; Crosbie, Veronica; Kelly, Niamh; Loftus, Maria; Maillot, Agnès; McGillicuddy, Áine; Péchenart, Juliette – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: This study had two main objectives: The first was to explore the extent to which a group of University lecturers feel that they are prepared to deal with controversial issues in their classrooms. The second was to elicit their views on a didactic approach known as Structured Academic Controversy (SAC). SAC is a constructivist teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Humanities, Social Sciences
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Quinlan, Andrea; Fogel, Curtis A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
In 1970, education theorist Paulo Freire (1970) sharply critiqued dominant pedagogy--or what he called the banking model of education--for stripping students of their agency. In the banking model, he wrote, instructors are empowered as narrating subjects as students who become alienated as passive listening objects. In the decades since, research…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Active Learning, Class Size, Teaching Load
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Hülsmann, Thomas; Shabalala, Lindiwe – Distance Education, 2016
The principal contradiction of online distance education is the disparity that exists between economies of scale and the new interactive capabilities of digital technologies. This is particularly felt where mega-universities in developing countries seek to make better use of these affordances while at the same time protecting their economies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Distance Education, Curriculum Design
Anderson, Sarah K.; Terras, Katherine L. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This research examines teacher perspectives' of educational challenges in Norway. Norway is one of the most well-resourced, prosperous, social welfare states in the world, yet the OECD (2011) recognized students' weak basic skills and insufficient teacher ability in content and pedagogy, along with engagement and imbalanced resources as points for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Problems, Teaching Load
Strawser, Cassondra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The researcher surveyed 126 members of the Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors (NDEP) group from all six NDEP regions across the country to examine the relationship between their ideologies, commonly utilized pedagogical techniques, and collaborative experiences with colleagues from different professions. The study also examined the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Dietetics, Group Discussion
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Al-Natour, Mayada; Amr, Muna; Al-Zboon, Eman; Alkhamra, Hatem – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
This paper examines collaboration between general and special education teachers in mainstream schools in Jordan from their own points of view. It explores the extent to which teachers work collaboratively throughout the different stages of the special educational programs of students with special needs (i.e. referral, assessment, planning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers
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