A major attribute of effective teaching is a teacher’s sense of teacher self-efficacy, which influences teacher behavior, motivation, and impact on student outcomes. Teacher self-efficacy impacts the level of motivation a teacher exhibits towards their instructional behaviors. In a general sense, self-efficacy influences how much effort people put forth, how long they will persist in the face o...

Selecting more effective teachers among job applicants during the hiring process could be a highly cost-effective means of improving educational quality, but there is little research that links information gathered during the hiring process to subsequent teacher performance. We study the relationship among applicant characteristics, hiring outcomes, and teacher performance in Washington DC Publ...

abstract the present study attempted to investigate the relationship between english language teacher perfectionism, teacher burnout, and teacher efficacy. for the purpose of the study, 114 teachers in tabadkan district, mashhad, were chosen. eighty-three of the participants were female and thirty-one were male with different majors in english language. three questionnaires, namely the scale on...

Teacher-learner autonomy, by analogy with previous definitions of language learner autonomy, might be defined as the ability to develop appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes for oneself as a teacher, in cooperation with others. By focusing on the teacher as learner in this manner I do not mean to diminish the importance of ‘being free from constraints on one’s teaching’, i.e. teacher auto...

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...

Transformational leadership researchers have given little attention to teacher expectations that mediate between goals and actions. The most important of these expectations, teacher efficacy, refers to teacher beliefs that they will be able to bring about student learning. This study examined the mediating effects of teacher efficacy by comparing two models derived from Bandura’s socialcognitiv...

The recruitment of quality students to teacher training programmes and entering the teaching profession is an important ongoing concern in many countries including UK. This paper presents results a mixed methods study on motivations for perceptions as career choice from perspective student teachers Scotland. Results showed that most participants were positively attracted profession, although th...

Professional development has been marginally successful at encouraging the knowledge generation approaches promoted in international education policy. To explore whether increased attention to teachers' epistemic orientations might suggest necessary innovations existing professional routines, an explanatory sequential mixed-methods analysis was conducted inside a three-year program for in-servi...

Teacher racial diversity has been widely considered important in education. However, it remains unclear to what extent and how teacher addressed at the federal, state, district levels. In this study, we employed text mining collect analyze over three million documents We found that while students of color had disproportionately less access racially diverse teachers, under our analysis insuffici...