Teacher effectiveness is widely recognised as a critical determinant of student achievement, influencing both short‐term academic performance and long‐term socioeconomic outcomes. Extensive research ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

Data shows some public charter schools, where the teacher workforce is smaller, often have lower effectiveness ratings, with ...

“Value added” gauges based on growth in student test scores and students’ perceptions of their teachers both hold promise as components of a system for identifying and promoting teacher effectiveness, ...

Last week, my children joined the nation’s 50 million students in the annual back-to-school ritual: feeling those butterflies of excitement at seeing school friends after summer vacation, choosing a ...

College Teaching, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 111-114 (4 pages) A school should plan not only for the improvement of its curricula, programs, and facilities, but also for the continuous ...

I’ve heard a lot of people question the wisdom of teacher transfers based on the reasoning that a teacher who’s effective in one school setting might not be as effective in another, due to differences ...

China’s Free Teacher Education (FTE) scholarship program, launched in 2007, aims to attract top students into teaching and address teacher shortages in underdeveloped regions. A new study finds that ...

The ongoing economic climate has created a unique set of challenges for the education industry. As a result, educators, students and parents are grappling with the need to adapt to a rapidly changing ...

Course learning outcomes define the knowledge and/or skills that students should develop while completing a course. Measuring student achievement of these outcomes can provide one source of data for ...

Bihar is still grappling with significant challenges in improving the quality of education. National assessments have shown that Bihar stands second from the bottom in the list of states in students’ ...