A study was conducted to determine if students with teachers of high self-concepts achieved greater gains than students with teachers of low self-concepts. Six third-grade teachers were observed one hour in September and another hour in March during a reading lesson, by three raters who completed a checklist designed to assess self-concept. Twenty…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student and supervisor evaluations of the effectiveness of general business teachers. A secondary purpose was to identify qualities of effective general business teachers through the use of a performance specimen checklist and a rating scale. The population of the study…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A TAXONOMY FROM A SYNTHESIS OF PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO THE DESCRIPTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF TEACHER CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR. INVESTIGATORS FOUND THAT THE VARIETY OF VIEWPOINTS COULD NOT BE SYNTHESIZED INTO ONE SINGLE SYSTEM. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE CATEGORIES, APPROACHES, AND CONCEPTUALIZATIONS FROM PREVIOUS EFFORTS PROVIDED…

Includes results of a survey of teachers who were asked to rate the purposes of evaluation as to importance. (JA)

Teacher effectiveness can be improved, according to this author, by carefully evaluating factors which are characteristic of good teachers and develop those characteristics in teacher education programs. The author further contends that the students themselves are highly reliable evaluators. (Editor)

This study concludes that student ratings may be a questionable method of evaluating teacher effectiveness, but the rating instrument could be defended on the basis of its high predictive efficiency. (Author)

Teachers are always rating pupils; pupils are less often asked to rate teachers. An ominous message about the school's selective role emerges from this study conducted in Britain. (DM)

A conversation between three demonstration teachers.

In most cases excellent teachers are made. School boards have to establish a climate that offers job satisfaction, that reduces some of the tensions and frustrations inherent in the job, and that recognizes teachers as people who want to learn to do their job better. (Author/IRT)

Teacher quality has become a top priority of our national agenda. There is empirical evidence that suggests that teacher inputs have impact on student outcomes. It is also believed that teacher dispositions are as crucial for student achievement as a teacher's pedagogical and content knowledge/skills. The National Council for Accreditation of…

A free-response method of data collection (questionnaires), in conjunction with nonmetric multidimensional scaling, produced results highly similar to those of a previous study, i.e., that an effective college teacher could be characterized in terms of "research,""teaching," and "service to the university." (Author/RC)

Article considered The Qualities and Competencies of the Religion Teacher, an exciting tool designed to help preservice and inservice teachers of religion look at their personal qualities and professional competencies. (Author/RK)