How Does Public Service Motivation Among Teachers Affect Student Performance in Schools?

Factors Contributing to Motivation among Iranian EFL In-Service Teachers

Since learning English as a foreign language in Iran has turned into one of the mostimportant issues in educational settings, especially in recent years, having motivated teachersin education and maintaining this motivation is one of the defining factors in assuring students’learning. Teachers' motivation affects the process of teaching and EFL learners’ achievement.The present study was an att...

Teachers and Student Achievement in the Chicago Public High Schools

Using unique administrative data on Chicago public high school students and their teachers, we are able to estimate the importance of teachers on student mathematical achievement. We find that teachers are educationally and statistically important. To be sure, sampling variation and other measurement issues can strongly influence estimates of teacher effects, and, in some cases, account for muc...

Know – How ICT among Student Teachers

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become a part of every human’s life. Proper usage of ICT devices helps for the growth of the society and in turn the country. Therefore it is in the hands of the group of people, the professionals, who are very intimate and lay a platform for such growth. This study is one of such kind with sample (n=160) consisting of professional students, i....

Boys Lag Behind: How Teachers’ Gender Biases Affect Student Achievement

I use a combination of blind and non-blind test scores to show that middle school teachers favor girls when they grade. This favoritism, estimated in the form of individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences: as measured by their national evaluations three years later, male students make less progress than their female counterparts. Gender-biased grading accounts for 21 percent of boys...

Labor Strife in Public Schools: Does it Affect Education Production?