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Mackenzie, Noella M.; Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell – Issues in Educational Research, 2011
Teachers bring a complex array of beliefs and attitudes to the teaching of literacy. The purpose of the study reported in this article was to investigate the nature of teacher attitudes towards the learning and teaching of writing in the first year of school and to identify any broad underlying attitudinal dimensions. The secondary aim was to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Factor Analysis, Emergent Literacy, Teaching Experience
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Hemmings, Brian Colin; Kay, Russell; Sharp, John; Taylor, Claire – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
Benchmarking within higher education is now relatively commonplace, as institutions increasingly compete directly with one another to improve the overall "quality" of what they do and attempt to establish and better their position among peers as measured against sector standards. The benchmarking of confidence among academic staff in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Benchmarking, Quality Assurance