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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"teacher effect"”.
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Math Anxiety: Teacher Effect on Student Attitudes About Mathematics
… to do with it. The focus of this paper is on how teachers can have an effect on the attitude of elementary school children about mathematics. The review of the literature addresses math anxiety causes and treatment.</p> <p>The research shows that it is not the step-by-step procedure for solving …
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Teacher Morale in Rural Northeast Tennessee
… the factors that influence the morale levels of teachers in the public school systems of 3 contiguous counties in rural northeast Tennessee. The level of teacher morale was measured using the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire. Data associated with the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) …
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Modeling teacher effectiveness as a function of student ability
… students to assess and rank the elementary teachers. They then published the results on their website. Publicly ranking teachers in this manner has important implications on the careers of the teachers being ranked. It is, therefore, important that any model claiming to rank teachers be as …
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Investigating whether a value-added teaching effectiveness model designed for traditional classrooms can be used to measure online teaching quality
The study reported here focused on assessing teacher quality in online environments. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility of using the same method Tennessee currently uses to gauge teaching quality of traditionally-delivered courses to determine teaching quality in the online …
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Establishing the utility of a classroom effectiveness index as a teacher accountability system.
How to identify effective teachers who improve student achievement despite diverse student populations and school contexts is an ongoing discussion in public education. The need to show communities and parents how well teachers and schools improve student learning has led districts and states to …
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A Film Intervention Program for Changing Mathematics Attitudes of Prospective Elementary Teachers
… intervention program for prospective elementary teachers was carried out in a mathematics content course at McNeese State University. Three films were shown to the students during the first two weeks of the course. Each of the three films shown was preceded and followed by written enhancement …
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Student Achievement in Middle Grades: Gauging the Effect of Teacher Training on Student Learning
<p>In the United States, teacher certification has been a baseline measure of teacher quality and gateway to the teaching profession for many decades. Research suggests that teacher certification is beneficial to student achievement, with findings particularly promising when content area of teacher …
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Impact of Professional Learning Community Design on Teacher Instruction
… of a professional learning community impacts teacher instruction in a middle school setting. The literature reviewed included historical perspective, definitions and characteristics of professional learning communities, teacher professional development, and teacher effect on student …
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The Effect of Standards Based Grading on Student Achievement on Standardized Assessments: Is There a Programmatic Effect?
… Additionally, research tends to focus on the teacher reaction and responsibility to make adjustments in the classroom as a response to the information gained from SBG in order to impact student outcomes, leading to a lack of knowledge as to whether SBG can itself have a programmatic effect. …
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Understanding the Factors that Influence the Grouping and Assignment of Students to Elementary Classrooms
… These principals also actively engaged with teachers in the decisions about how to group and assign students to classrooms. When examining other factors that influence the grouping and assignment of students to classrooms, I found that perceptions of teacher effectiveness, and parental and …
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TCAP Scores and Per Pupil Expenditures: Statewide Changes Before and After Tennessee’s First to the Top Act
… Standards, changes to standardized testing, teacher evaluation system reflecting teacher effect partly based on student achievement, changes to tenure, and establishment of an Achievement School District for low-performing schools. Fast-paced reforms and increasing accountability for student …
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Nepalilaisten opettajien opetusvarmuus : näkökulmina opettajan persoona, substanssiosaaminen, pedagoginen osaaminen ja luokan hallinta
… Mathematics, Nepali language and Social study teachers' confidence to teach their own subject. Every skill, such as teaching skills, brings with uncertainty and insecurity creates a need for security. The aim of the master's thesis is to research how substance knowledge, the teacher's …