This article explores a fundamental indicator missing from current assessments of preservice teacher effectiveness, namely the importance of competencies central to professionalism and to impact on student learning. Drawing from her classroom experiences and relevant research, the author makes the case that evaluation of English teacher candidates’ “dispositions” is necessary in measures of pro...

Drawing on analyses of a subset of teacher quality studies in which student outcomes were used as a dependent variable (Hess, 2001; Walsh, 2001), the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB; 2001) challenged traditional concepts of good teaching by emphasizing content mastery and verbal ability and downplaying the importance of pedagogy. In turn, the belief that pedagogy is a less powerful determinant o...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...

teachers are evaluated in different ways. however, the most prevalent and controversial method is teacher evaluation by students. the present study was targeted at the examination of students’ view on the teachers’ evaluation criteria. methods: the population of this descriptive cross-sectional study was 107 students of paramedical faculty of urmia university of medical sciences that two of the...

Whereas findings from recent research highlight the importance of teacher quality in improving students’ academic performances and experiences of schooling, substantive and methodological issues surrounding the conceptualisation and evaluation of teacher quality are not wellunderstood. Such deficiencies are particularly evident in claims for ‘findings’ derived from econometric research – especi...