The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) regularly prepares reports rating teacher preparation programs (TPPs) across the United States on a set of input and process-based standards. The purpose of the research described in this brief is to use data drawn from North Carolina to examine the associations between the NCTQ ratings of TPPs and two measures of teacher performance—teacher value-...

background and purpose: various approaches to learning are suggested & practiced. the traditional medical education were more teacher centered oriented . in this method the students’ involvement in the process of learning is not remarkable, but the new approach to medical education supports the students involvement. this study evaluated the various method of lecturing considering students invol...

abstractteaching and learning of french as a foreign language in any anglophone country such as ghana is an extremely difficult task to undertake both on the part of the teacher and the student. this is evidenced in the general low performance of students in the subject at the basic education certificate examination (bece) level in both public and private schools over the years. this case study...

introduction. evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. during the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. more studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. the...

This study compared four ways of responding to EFL students in writing class to study whether they resulted in different outcomes in term of student‟s errors in writing. A total of 119 intermediate level students were selected as subjects, including students from three English reading and writing classes, and some voluntary participants. The students of three English reading and writing classes...

The present study investigated specific teacher factors that potentially influence teacher–child relationships with preschool-age children. One demographic questionnaire and three rating scales were used to survey 152 head teachers of 3–6-year-old children in community-based childcare and preschool centers in one midwestern state. There were 46 teachers who reported on their relationship with a...

The substantial ‘value-added’ literature that seeks to measure the overall impact of teachers on student achievement does not distinguish between teacher effects that are invariant to prevailing incentives and those that are responsive to them. In contrast, we develop an empirical approach that, for the first time, allows us to separate out incentive-varying teacher effort from incentiveinvaria...

The main goal of this study is to evaluate primary teacher education programs in Croatia. Prior to evaluation of the primary teacher education programs, expected primary teacher education competencies were defined. The expected teacher competencies were determined according to the goals stated in the Croatian national curriculum. In addition, international guidelines for information literacy de...

The quality of education depends on the quality of technology. Information and communication technology (ICT) has become popular within a very short time one of the basic building blocks of modern society. The present study was aim to find out the perception of teacher trainees towards learning through information and communication technologies. The objectives of the study were to find out the ...

Although teacher enthusiasm is a relevant variable in the teaching context, a clear definition is still lacking. Research on teacher enthusiasm is characterized by ambiguous conceptualizations of enthu siasm as either an affective characteristic of teachers or behaviors of expressiveness. Integrating these two notions, a new conceptualization of dispositional teacher enthusiasm, defined by teac...