Helen Ladd takes a comparative look at policies that the world's industrialized countries are using to assure a supply of high-quality teachers. Her survey puts U.S. educational policies and practices into international perspective. Ladd begins by examining teacher salaries-an obvious, but costly, policy tool. She finds, perhaps surprisingly, that students in countries with high teacher salarie...

2 Schedule (tentative) 2.1 Tuesday morning Brief introductions (1 min / person; you can prepare one slide, but free form is fine) Presentations I • Hinrich Schütze (introduction to working group, basically this document, 15+5) • Jay McClelland (45+15) • Maja Rudolph: Probabilistic modeling perspective (15+5) (Rudolph et al., 2016) • Rami Al-Rfou (and Marc Pickett?): Application perspective (15+...

Education is a sector that has the potential to become a critical area of action for the full exploitation of ICT. Educational systems of developed and developing countries have an ever-increasing tendency to apply ICT to education, in an attempt to prepare their students for the future's society. This thesis attempted to explore what kind of ICT is used in the Greek Primary Schools and develop...

The purpose of this study was to investigate technology integration in primary schools from the perspective of leadership in learning organizations. To that end, the study examines two groups: school administrators who play effective roles in technology integration in schools and computer teachers who are mainly responsible for schools’ technology integration. In particular, this research focus...

Teachers are builders of society and students of today will definitely determine our tomorrow. The teachers perform the roles of a teacher, manager, administrator, and researcher. As such their viewpoints are pivotal and vital for planning and executing the curricula in medical schools and universities. Many studies have been conducted to determine the student viewpoints on the teaching innovat...

The study aimed at understanding the implications of the teaching-service integration to nursing education from the perspective of teachers, students and professionals in Primary Healthcare as well as identifying the roles of teachers and professionals who follow practical experiences in education. This is a case study of qualitative approach carried out in five undergraduate courses in Nursing...