281 Search Results for Teacher Qualifications and Student Performance
They computed a variety of measures to determine whether there was in fact a narrowing of a gap between teacher qualifications across wealthier and poorer schools and found that there was. This narrowing -- indicative of changes in hiring practices Continue Reading...
The ultimate goal is to increase student achievement by improving the hiring process by adding another layer of screening, namely teacher efficacy. The following aims will support the ability to achieve these goals.
Aim 1: To evaluate the associati Continue Reading...
Self-Efficacy: A Definition
Social Cognitive Theory
Triangulation Data analysis
Teacher Self-Efficacy
Problems for the researcher
Data Analysis and Related Literature review.
Baseline Group
Gender Deviation
Age Deviation
Comparison of data w Continue Reading...
Convergent questions seek one or more very specific correct answers, while divergent questions seek a wide variety of correct answers. Convergent questions apply to Bloom's lower levels of Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application
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Finally, I am interested in whether or not there is a trickle-down effect from leftist or rightist politics style at the provincial and federal levels.
1.3 Objectives
1.3.1 There are two major objectives for this research. The first is to comp Continue Reading...
Through these tests there has been an overall improvement in the quality of education as it requires schools to improve their performance, and if they fail to meet the AYP for two or more years it has to offer its eligible students a chance to tran Continue Reading...
Teacher Evaluations
Discussion and Response: Teacher Performance or Effectiveness
What are the ramifications of the performance/effectiveness distinction for teacher evaluation?
The authors' deconstruction of the performance-effectiveness paradigm Continue Reading...
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The study also found that the promotion of personal teaching efficacy was most evident in schools when other teachers and administrators set goals that were high but achievable, the school climate was organized and serious, and when academic excel Continue Reading...
Students with ADHD
Education 518, Section B13
Dr. Carolyn McCreight
Qualitative article review: Students with ADHD
Homeschooling is one of the controversial approaches to educate children with 'special needs'. Students with Attention Deficit Hype Continue Reading...
Teacher Education in Nigeria: A Comparison with the United States
There is no nation that can grow beyond the quality of its education (Lawal, 2003). A nation can only develop meaningfully and attain professionalism through a good teacher education Continue Reading...
Students in grades 3-8 tested annually in reading and math. Students tested in science at least once in elementary, middle and high school. NAE Progress test taken by sample of 4th and 8th graders to compare results.
Academic progress. States must Continue Reading...
Accountability Student Learning
Accountability Plan K-12 Learning
Staff Responsibility for Enhancing Student Learning
In a K-12 educational setting, staff are tasked with the responsibility of enhancing student learning to the best of their abilit Continue Reading...
Special Education Teachers
Special Education Vacancies
Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention
Barriers to Hiring
Barriers to retaining special education personnel.
Incentives used to improve retention.
Recommendations to Improve Recruitment and Re Continue Reading...
Students' Adjustments and Skills
Every book has a preface that gives an overview to the reader regarding the content. Since, it prepares the reader's mind according to theme and thus enables him/her quickly understand the concept of the writer. Simi Continue Reading...
Teacher Recruitment
Examine how teacher recruitment evolved fifteen years
Learning is a process that commences from the time of birth of any individual and has no limits to the extent to which a person may reach. It is for this reason that ministri Continue Reading...
Teaching in Urban Districts
The main form of interaction that goes on in schools is between the teachers and the students. Some of the students are difficult or unruly and they present many difficulties for the teachers as the teachers cannot then Continue Reading...
Staff Development and Student Performance
Staff Development: An Overview
State Standards for Staff Development
Progressive Trends in Staff Development
Recommended Guidelines for Successful Implementation
Georgia's Example
It stands to reason t Continue Reading...
This study used quantitative techniques to measure the dependent variables, but the answers obtained have a high level of subjectivity present in them.
Confounding Variables
Aside from the independent and dependent variables, almost every study ha Continue Reading...
e., test scores) and dictated by "best practices" that teachers are losing confidence in their own creativity. Yet, despite these unfortunate consequences of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the important work of teachers remains unchanged.
That work is Continue Reading...
While some suggest that high-stakes testing is an inadequate way of measuring the academic achievement and learning of most students, many also agree that high-stakes testing has severe disadvantages for special education students. Kymes points out Continue Reading...
Student Achievement at the Elementary Level
Elementary education is one of the most important stages of schooling today. This is so because this level of education provides students with important basis points that they can use throughout their live Continue Reading...
Bonuses could also be earned by taking advanced courses in improving classroom techniques and by improving the scores their students achieved on state tests.
These salary additions can add up to as much as $9,800 per year. In addition, teachers' pa Continue Reading...
EDUCATION AND TEACHING Education and Teaching: Teacher Effectiveness and Years of ExperienceLiterature ReviewIt has been well-observed that parents like to have their child admitted to a school or college whose teachers are hardworking and have the e Continue Reading...
wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_language_teaching#Overview_of_CLT,2005). This means that successfully learning a foreign language is assessed in terms of how well learners have developed their communicative competence, which can loosely be defined a Continue Reading...
Performance Management Process and the CEO
Critique and evaluate considerations that are traditionally used to determine CEO compensation
Many reward compensations adopted by the CEOs of this era contain five primary components: limited stock grant Continue Reading...
Students' Emotional Issues That Interfere with Academic Performance in K-12 Public Schools
Classroom settings are emotion-filled areas of learning for children; for instance, children may experience excitement to learn a new lesson, anxiety and hope Continue Reading...
Teacher Quality: The Effect of Compensation
The objective of this study is to report the importance of teacher quality in achieving good educational outcomes for children and to discuss the potential for a well-designed compensation contract to impr Continue Reading...
Although further education courses can be at traditional universities, they are generally taught through colleges that are exclusively venues for further education courses. These institutions are sometimes called "community colleges" after the Amer Continue Reading...
Self-esteem and Academic/Intellectual Performance
The research on the relationship between self-esteem and intellectual performance places has a lot of emphases on the gap of achievement, and is concerned with identifying factors that bring about d Continue Reading...
The education of those students who do not meet the eligibility requirements remains the responsibility of general educator (bid., 66-56).
Individualized Education Program and Individualized Family Service Plan
Finally, it is time to develop the a Continue Reading...
Percussion Teacher
In forty-five hours of teaching percussion, I have learned to apply various learning theories to my work. I believe a greater understanding of these theories has improved my pedagogy and enhanced communications and interpersonal c Continue Reading...
Rationale of Study
According to De Valero (2001), "Given the high costs associated with graduate education, the current national climate of diminishing resources for higher education, and an increased competition for these resources between underg Continue Reading...
The works of Borko and Putnam (1998) expressed the contemporary perspectives to the concept of contextual learning. Situated recognition (uses both social and physical contexts),social cognition (uses an individual's construction of a given knowledg Continue Reading...
Lead: Chinese students who study abroad used to be among the most sough-after workers in China. Now, they are increasingly facing barriers to employment. Negative stereotypes and the rising quality of domestic education have Chinese employers turning Continue Reading...
Special Education
Since the introduction of PL-142 the Special education system has received both praise and criticism. Special Education Programs are an essential component to our educational system. The current special education system has aided Continue Reading...
Summary
Educators’ compensation is based on their academic qualifications and their experience in training. As the times change and the demand for high educational performance grows, a confusion arises on how to implement the necessary changes. Continue Reading...
Educators are faced with the challenge of dealing with each student's needs. Everyone needs a chance to grow, learn and face the challenges that are necessary for attaining excellence. There are always special needs children in each learning envi Continue Reading...
In addition to the above the authors are very cognizant of the fact that surgical patient wellness is also directly attributable to patient-nurse ratios. According to the authors this ever-important factor impacts the patient mortality and failure Continue Reading...