Teacher Characteristics and Children’s Educational Attainment in Ghana: Do Some Teacher Characteristics Matter More for Children Attending Disadvantaged Schools? [PDF]
Frontiers in Education, 2020 This study examined the association between teacher characteristics and primary school children’s educational attainment. Additionally, it explored whether certain teacher characteristics are more important for children attending disadvantaged schools ...
Maxwell Kwesi Nyatsikor +3 more
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Understanding Teacher Evaluation in Finland: A Professional Development Framework [PDF]
, 2022 This study explores the characteristics of the teacher evaluation model in Finland. Highlighting the unique qualities of the Finnish case, we also compare these teacher evaluation practices with the increasingly applied value-added model (VAM) for ...
Karaman C +3 more
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Inventory of Supporting for Socio-Emotional Skills - Forced-Choice Version [PDF]
Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)Socioemotional skills are essential for students’ development at school. However, school support has barely generated debates. We aimed to analyze the evidence of the internal structure and convergent-discriminant validity of the scores of the forced ...
Felipe Valentini +9 more
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The effective English language teacher from the perspective of Ecuadorian university students
Maskana, 2022 Studying EFL teacher effectiveness has been a constant issue in the last decade. These investigations focused on teachers’ and education administrators’ perceptions. Most of them were conducted in countries different from Latin America.
Daysi Narváez-Cantos
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Examining the relationship between teaching ability and smart education adoption in K-12 schools: A moderated mediation analysis [PDF]
Journal of Pedagogical ResearchThis study addresses gaps in the literature by examining the relationships between teaching ability, smart education adoption, and K-12 educational outcomes.
Kejia Wen, Qian Liu
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STUDENTS' VS. TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES ON BEST TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS IN EFL CLASSROOMS
TEFLIN Journal, 2015 This paper discusses the perspectives of students and teachers in a university setting about best teacher characteristics. This is viewed through the perspectives of students and teachers regarding their perceptions of qualities of English teachers, and
Nihta V F Liando
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Academic work and proletarianisation : a study of higher education-based teacher educators [PDF]
, 2014 This article reports on a one year, mixed methods study of 13 teacher educators at work in English and Scottish higher education institutions. Framed by cultural-historical activity theory, itself a development of a Marxian analysis of political economy,
McNicholl, Jane +12 more
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Exploring English for medical purposes (EMP) teacher cognition in the Chinese context
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 It has been a growing trend in Chinese universities to shift from English for general purposes (EGP) to English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching. Against this background, large groups of teachers previously engaged in teaching EGP have become or are ...
Zhongkai Cao +4 more
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Teacher Professional Development: Who is the learner? [PDF]
, 2012 One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and policy change.
Petrie, Kirsten +2 more
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Exploring the Characteristics of Effective Iranian EFL Teachers from Students’ and Teachers’ Perspectives [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2014 This study investigated the characteristics of effective secondary school Iranian EFL teachers from students’ and teachers’ perspectives. To this end, 376 junior secondary school students and 32 EFL teachers teaching at various Iranian secondary schools ...
Hassan SoodmandAfshar, Mehdi Doosti
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