Anecdotal evidence from the media suggests that accountability pressure increases teacher stress and drives teachers away from teaching, particularly leading to teachers leaving disadvantaged schools that serve a larger proportion of poor and minority students. However, no prior work has systematically examined the changes in the national trends of teacher turnover in response to NCLB school ac...

This paper reports on a study of upper secondary school teachers’ and students’ perceptions of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. Data for the study are interviews with teachers and students that are part of a Swedish fouryear project concerned with the advanced use of ICT in education. The results show that teachers use ICT for several different purposes, and that s...

BACKGROUND The present qualitative study assessed the need, acceptability and appropriateness for implementing effective and culturally appropriate smoking prevention programs for adolescents in schools in Indonesia. METHODS Snowball sampling was used to recruit participants. The study sample comprised a mixture of staff in the education department, junior high school teachers and individuals...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the type and frequency of in-and out-of-school activities implemented in secondary school geography lessons in Turkey. A questionnaire survey was prepared and distributed to 150 geography teachers who participated in an in-service education organized by the Ministry of National Education in 2009. Eighty-one teachers responded to the twenty-four questio...

This study aims to probe into the cognitive sources and reflective content of student teachers’ socialization, such as job proficiency, goals and values, school culture, and role regulation by ‘teaching blog’. This paper utilizes eight student teachers of business, data processing, Chinese, English, science, and technology as subjects. Through Action Research, this study examines educational pr...

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous, and their uses are various. In schools, many discussions about mobile devices are ongoing as more and more teachers are adopting the technology for use in their classrooms. Teachers’ attitudes toward mobile learning takes an important role in initiating its usage in schools. This study aims to investigate the attitudes toward mobile learning among Korean t...

A study of a learning management system (LMS) used by two secondary school teachers to deliver a unit of work to middle-school students was conducted to examine the planning and development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and determine the LMS’s effect on pedagogy. Data was elicited via observation of the teachers’ planning sessions, interviews and a survey rating teachers’ perceptions ...

BACKGROUND Vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection have the potential to reduce the burden of cervical cancer. School-based delivery of HPV vaccines is cost-effective and successful uptake depends on school teachers' knowledge and acceptability of the vaccine. The aim of this study is to assess primary school teachers' knowledge and acceptability of HPV vaccine and to explore faci...

Our objective was to examine factors associated with compliance and support for a smoke-free campus before and after a 1995 campus-wide smoking ban for everyone, including teachers and visitors, in California. Adolescent (12-17 years) data from the 1993, 1996, 1999 and 2002 (N approximately 6000 each year) California Tobacco Surveys (population-based telephone surveys) were analyzed. Trends in ...

While claims of the importance of attribution theory and teachers' expectations of students for student performance are repeatedly made, there is little comprehensive research identifying the perceptions preservice teachers have of students with learning disabilities (LD). Accordingly, 444 Australian preservice primary school teachers were surveyed using vignettes and Likert-scale questions, to...