Beginning medical teachers often see themselves as doctors or researchers rather than as teachers. Using both figured worlds theory and dialogical self theory, this study explores how beginning teachers in the field of undergraduate medical education integrate the teacher role into their identity. A qualitative study was performed, involving 18 beginning medical teachers at a Dutch medical scho...

This study was conducted to quantify views of the students’ regarding role of University Teachers in prompting the students and attracting them towards the classes to enhance their classroom attendance. A structured questionnaire built on the pattern of Likert scale was employed for the data collection. Teaching method employed by the teachers, their dealing with the students and their way of c...

This study examines the role of teachers' expectations in the association between children's socio-economic background and achievement outcomes. Furthermore, the role of children's ethnicity in moderating this mediated relation is investigated. In the present study, 3,948 children from kindergarten are examined. Data are analysed by means of structural equation modeling. First, results show tha...

language teacher assessment, like many aspects of second language teacher education, is changing. to understand factors that are driving the change, such as work of teaching generally, language teaching in particular, and the role of teachers’ knowledge in teaching, this study examined language teacher assessment schemes across the globe. the aim was to arrive at a set of shared beliefs, attitu...

The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Technological Factors in Predicting Teachers’ Beliefs about Knowledge Sharing M. Bohlool R. Hosseyngholizaadeh, Ph.D. M. Karami, Ph.D. To explore the role of personal, organizational, and technological factors in predicting teachers’ beliefs about knowledge sharing, a sample of 173 Rashtkhaaree teachers was randomly sele...