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El Impacto De La Formación Permanente Del Profesorado De Educación Secundaria En Los Resultados Escolares, Paula González-Vallinas, David Oterino, José Luis San Fabián
El Impacto De La Formación Permanente Del Profesorado De Educación Secundaria En Los Resultados Escolares, Paula González-Vallinas, David Oterino, José Luis San Fabián
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Studies dealing with factors which have an influence on students outcomes are reviewed, teacher variables and teacher training are among their most common findings to influence school achievement. This study analyses the variable in-service teacher training on students’ academic achievement. The analysis levels are departments and schools, being department the level where the relation among variables is more significative. There are significative correlations between the in-service teacher training in their own subject and the subject pedagogy in 50% of the analysed departments. In-service teacher training is recommended to be organized, taking into account these differences (context, teacher variables, in- service …
National Board Certification As Professional Development: What Are Teachers Learning?, David Lustick, Gary Sykes
National Board Certification As Professional Development: What Are Teachers Learning?, David Lustick, Gary Sykes
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This study investigated the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ (NBPTS) assessment process in order to identify, quantify, and substantiate learning outcomes from the participants. One hundred and twenty candidates for the Adolescent and Young Adult Science (AYA Science) Certificate were studied over a two-year period using the recurrent institutional cycle research design. This quasi-experimental methodology allowed for the collection of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data insuring a good measure of internal validity regarding observed changes between individual and across group means. Transcripts of structured interviews with each teacher were scored by multiple assessors according to the 13 standards of …