To shed light on this question, this paper analyzes trends in labor market conditions and trends in teacher graduates' characteristics over three decades. Based on representative data from West Germany, it shows that teacher earnings have not declined over time. Likewise, there is no decline in academic aptitude among teacher graduates. Unemployment risks, on the other hand, have fluctuated gre...

In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

Wendy Robinson University if Exeter 19 Policy, theory and practice in initial teacher education in England has a long history if turbulence. This paper riflects upon this history and examines those key aspects if initial teacher education which have shaped pas~ present and foture developments. Following a brig historical overview if key developments in the field, the issue if where best to trai...

In this paper we report on work estimating the stability of value-added estimates of teacher effects, an important area of investigation given public interest in workforce policies that implicitly assume effectiveness is a stable attribute within teachers. The results strongly reject the hypothesis that teacher performance is completely stable within teachers over long periods of time, but esti...

Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

Recent research documents substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by value added to student achievement, much of which is not captured by characteristics typically used in the hiring and salary determination processes including post-graduate schooling and experience. Consequently an understanding of the impact of teacher transitions on school quality cannot focus simply on such obs...

This paper investigates the impacts of teacher characteristics on student performance using a nationally representative and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having more experienced or female homeroom (HRT) with additional classroom management duties significantly improves students' test scores cognitive noncognitive abilities. In contrast, these effects are not ob...

The purpose of this study was to develop the Scale of Teacher Perception of Gifted students. The validity and reliability studies were conducted. The sample consisted of 175 randomly selected primary school teachers. Within the scope of the scale validity studies, contextual validity was determined, based on specialist opinions, while the factor analysis was used for determining the structural ...

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