In this paper, the authors use a ten - year span of longitudinal data from North Carolina to explore a range of questions related to the relationship
between teacher characteristics and credentials, on the one hand, and student achievement on the other.
In both cases the «strong research» on which these standards rely is a study by Boyd, et al examining the relationship
between teacher characteristics and student achievement.
Not exact matches
Teachers who moved
between different suburban districts experienced similar, albeit smaller, changes in student
characteristics.
In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these
characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link
between students» outcomes and
teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and
teachers» responsibility for student learning.
The third approach we consider is also based on value - added but is carried out in two steps instead of one in order to force comparisons
between schools and
teachers serving students with similar
characteristics.
The third approach is also VAM - based, but fully levels the playing field
between schools and
teachers by eliminating any association
between school - and
teacher - level measures of test - score growth and student
characteristics.
Audio - recordings, collected during the academic year in 40 sixth - grade classrooms from two sites (Illinois, Massachusetts), will be analyzed for the
characteristics of talk among and
between teachers and students.
Okay, you've walked down the hallways and found lots of symbols, artefacts and mottos that foster positive interactions
between teachers, students, parents and the community, but you want to see if the school has those six
characteristics of healthy school cultures I've just listed.
Using the indicators of
teacher cheating described above, we conducted a series of analyses to examine the relationship
between cheating and a variety of classroom and school
characteristics.
To determine the relationship
between teacher collaboration and student achievement, the researchers used reading and math achievement scores for 2,536 fourth - graders, controlling for school context and student
characteristics such as prior achievement.
Pilot
teachers have
characteristics between those of
teachers working at traditional BPS schools and charter schools, as can be seen in columns 3 and 8 of Table 1.
However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods in which schools are located either affect
teacher recruitment and retention or explain the observed relationship
between school
characteristics and
teachers» career choices.
The study also found that a severe lack of black and Asian male
teachers at LAUSD means «that black and Asian boys were particularly affected by disparities in
characteristics between teachers and students.»
• Edu - tweeters act as a filter for educational content that is available on the internet • Twitter facilitates positive, supportive, contact
between teachers but not sustained educational conversations • Edu - tweeters are not prone to tweeting inane meaningless comments • The majority of hashtags posted within Edu - Twitter contain educational links • Twitter offers connections with a network of like - minded educators • The key
characteristics of effective professional development could be accomplished through the use of Twitter.
Between - teacher variation has usually proven to be greater than between - method variation after taking account of variation in initial student character
Between -
teacher variation has usually proven to be greater than
between - method variation after taking account of variation in initial student character
between - method variation after taking account of variation in initial student
characteristics.
Teacher Characteristics and Balance
Between Participants and Non-Participants and
Between Treatment and Control Groups in the Follow - up Year
Researchers found few relationships
between the
characteristics of the TFA
teachers, such as college selectivity or academic major, and their students» academic gains.
The correlation
between new
teacher's qualifications and the
characteristics of schools they work in from research last year
The methodological approach separates the effects of
teacher characteristics from school
characteristics by modeling the relationship
between the assessments of school contextual factors by one set of
teachers and the turnover decisions by other
teachers within the same school.
The graph above shows the correlation
between new
teacher's qualifications and the
characteristics of schools they work in.
What similarities do you notice
between the
characteristics that make
teachers effective in implementing instruction in the general population and those that make
teachers effective with at - risk students and high - ability students?
The relationship
between principal
characteristics, principal turnover,
teacher quality,
teacher turnover and student achievement.
When differences in educational backgrounds, years of experience, and employment
characteristics are taken into account, the wage gap
between African American and white female, full - time
teachers is reduced to roughly 93 cents on the dollar.
Relationships
between teachers and students entail more than the sum of their behaviors and their individual
characteristics (Pianta 2006; Pianta et al. 2003).
Interrelationships
between temperament
characteristics and first - grade
teacher - child interactions.