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This study examines the mediatory role of the taechers' perception of the subject matter in the relation between their disciplinary expertise and their grading style. Data were collected from a sample of 312 high school teachers who participated in the Israeli PISA assessment of student academic achievement in 2002. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Jun. 24, 2012
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This article outlines research on teaching controversial issues in initial teacher education in England and South Africa.This study suggested that obstacles to teaching controversial issues in schools and teacher education persist in schools in England and South Africa. The overall challenge for both societies that are the focus of this study is to ensure that all their teachers and teacher educators have the necessary skills, knowledge and confidence to handle controversial issues in their classrooms. More
Published: 2011
Updated: May. 22, 2012
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ educational levels and teacher beliefs about practices in early childhood classrooms. The authors examined differences between lead teachers and teacher assistants in publicly funded prekindergarten classrooms on their beliefs about developmentally appropriate and inappropriate practices. Primary findings suggest significant differences between lead teachers and teacher assistants in terms of their beliefs about both developmentally appropriate and inappropriate practices. More
Published: 2010
Updated: May. 09, 2012
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This study explores social expectations around adequate knowledge for prospective secondary mathematics teachers in South Korea and the United States. The authors selected a sample of 49 teacher preparation institutions in South Korea and the United States. The findings suggest that transnational commonalities and national differences exist simultaneously, and examining both is necessary to better understand teacher knowledge. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Apr. 01, 2012
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The current study explored the antecedents of self-efficacy beliefs for literacy instruction and the relationship of these beliefs to self-efficacy for teaching in general. This manuscript presents a new measure of teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs for literacy instruction (TSELI) that was tested with factor analysis and reliability analysis. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Feb. 22, 2012
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The authors investigated the impact of tutoring and observing on preservice teachers’ reading self-efficacy and content knowledge. Participants reading efficacy and content knowledge were compared. Results showed that both groups reported growth in reading self-efficacy and content knowledge. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Feb. 07, 2012
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This article describes a comparative study which conducted in Norway, Israel and The Netherlands to examine the perceptions of mentors and mentees the nature of assessment in practice teaching. The participants were 74 student teachers and 52 mentors from these three countries. The authors found high agreement between mentors and students on a number of issues related to assessment in mentoring both in the nature of teaching as well in the process of mentoring. This study also found that there is a similar level of agreement in the three contexts regarding what to assess and how the assessment is done as there is about the mentoring activity. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Jan. 31, 2012
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This study compared three teacher preparation programs at a Midwestern university. The purpose of the study was to examine how the teachers from the three programs perceived the impact of the programs and how employers perceived their teaching competencies. The teachers from the three teacher education programs at the Midwestern university held positive attitudes about the impact of their programs on their competencies. Their positive views were confirmed by the perceptions of their employers, who provided high ratings of their teachers' competencies in all three programs. More
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 12, 2012
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The purpose of this study was to obtain information from a group of beginning teachers regarding how teachers who enter the field through alternative certification programs respond to the induction programs, in comparison to those who enter through more traditional programs. The results indicate that there are more similarities than differences in the experiences reported by 1st-year alternative-and traditional-entry teachers. These results indicate that teacher education certification programs and beginning teacher support programs need to take into consideration the unique needs of alternative-entry teachers because of their previous experiences and expectations. More
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 12, 2012
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This article examines the learning strategies and learning-related emotions of German teacher trainees. Characteristics of German teacher trainees are identified through comparisons with German students on educational science course, and through comparisons with Swedish teacher trainees. It was found that there are national differences between German and Swedish teacher trainees. More
Published: 2011
Updated: Dec. 20, 2011