The purpose of evaluating teaching effectiveness is to increase student learning. A common metric of student learning is achievement data (i.e., test scores). Thus, it is logical to use student achievement data to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The U.S. has had a short history of using achievement data to evaluate a school or district; the new movement is to use it to evaluate individual teac...

Teacher still has a prominent role in shaping the generations and teacher education institutions handle the responsibility of transformation of teachers. Teachers must have a thorough basis of the content and pedagogic practices for processing the knowledge to the level of students. This paper explores more effective ways of imparting content knowledge among elementary student teachers by compa...

Value orientations play an important role in secondary physical education curriculum decision making by influencing the teacher's curriculum content priorities relative to student needs and interests, school context, and subject matter goals. Five value orientations mediating curricular decisions in middle and high school settings have been identified as disciplinary mastery, learning process, ...

Growing suspension rates predict major negative life outcomes, including adult incarceration and unemployment. Experiment 1 tested whether teachers (n = 39) could be encouraged to adopt an empathic rather than punitive mindset about discipline-to value students' perspectives and sustain positive relationships while encouraging better behavior. Experiment 2 tested whether an empathic response to...

Nowadays, in line with trends in language teaching that follow the use of student-centered teaching/testing activities, there is growing consensus that students differ in their multiple intelligences. Furthermore, self-efficacy is one of the determining factors of success for people almost in any context. Assuming that the multiple intelligences profiles in tandem with self-efficacy of teachers...

Article History: Received 06.04.2013 Received in revised form 16.05.2013 Accepted 28.05.2013 Available online 05.08.2013 This study was prepared to analyze biology teachers’ responsibility beliefs for student academic successes and failures in terms of different variables. The data were collected with Teachers’ Responsibility for Student Achievement Scale, Teachers’ Sense of Self-efficacy Scale...

O ver the past 15 years, a growing body of research has demonstrated that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement. Taking advantage of improved educational data systems that link students to their teachers, this research has used a class of statistical techniques called value-added models to estimate teachers’ impact on their students’ standardized test p...

BACKGROUND School climate has been linked with improved academic achievement and reduced discipline problems, and thus is often a target of school improvement initiatives. However, few studies have examined the extent to which student and teacher perceptions vary as a function of individual, classroom, and school characteristics, or the level of congruence between teachers' and their students' ...

Mathematics education research has shown that too few students have adequate mathematics comprehension or problem-solving skills. To make up for this lapse in student outcomes, mathematics teachers should be among the most enthusiastic in seeking to maximize technologies’ potential to develop student understanding, stimulate student interest, and increase student mathematics proficiency. In thi...

Student evaluation of teaching is a fundamental system for assuring teaching quality at higher education institutions (HEIs). Its establishment has provided students with a routine channel for voicing their wishes with regard to teaching and is helpful for HEIs to establish “serve the students” as the aim of their operations. Student evaluation of teaching is a recent phenomenon at China’s HEIs...