Recent research has identified teacher quality as the most important variable in increasing student achievement. The effect of the teacher on student achievement has been shown to be greater than effects due to class size, school, and student socioeconomic status (Sanders & Horn, 1998). Yet proxies implemented by states and districts to determine teacher quality have been woefully inadequate. T...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate teacherschr('39') experiences of social status. Methodology: The present study was conducted using descriptive phenomenological method. The statistical population of the study included all the official teachers of education in the country in the academic year of 2018-19. The research sampling method was purposive and the data collection method ...

Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to place a greater emphasis on quality teaching and student learning. However, few faculty receive any type of teacher training prior to entering the academy. As a result, faculty development is one likely solution to teacher quality issues. But faculty development is faced with serious shortcomings that impede its ability to improve teacher qualit...

This research brief presents the main findings of the Teacher Status Project, a national four year study of public and individual teachers’ perceptions of the status of teachers and teaching, carried out at the Cambridge University Faculty of Education, and funded by the Department for Education and Skills. It includes the perspectives of people who come into close contact with teachers, includ...

Fullan (1991) reminds us that "change is multidimensional" and that it can "vary within the same person as well as within groups ." Yet research frequently conceptualizes change solely in terms ofdifferences in status . Researchers gather data over two time points, compute the status for each time point, and proceed to look for differences in status over time . Consider the example of a survey ...

Nowadays, the most prevailing issue in the e-learning environment is that it is not easy to monitor students’ learning behaviors instantly, which is becoming the mainly obstacle of personalized teaching and learning. For example, the teacher is confused --know nothing about the learning status of students, the content is static --invariable and same to every student and the student is alone --c...