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Incentives And Teacher Effort: Evidence From Lagos, Nigeria, Simileoluwa Adebajo May 2018

Incentives And Teacher Effort: Evidence From Lagos, Nigeria, Simileoluwa Adebajo

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According to recent research (Hattie, 2003), teachers contribute to around 30% of the overall variation in student achievement and success – more than any other influencing factor. This study seeks to understand how different types of incentives (monetary, near monetary and non-monetary incentives) influence the “effort” of public school teachers as perceived by the students in Lagos, Nigeria using a novel measurement tool – the teaching effectiveness survey – to measure the teachers’ outcomes. Using a randomized field experiment where students evaluate the changes in their teachers’ effort with a standard teaching effectiveness survey and differences in differences estimation, we …


Improved Leadership Through A Myers-Briggs Analysis: Personality Styles Of Principals And Teachers At The Secondary Level, Mark William Loos Jan 2001

Improved Leadership Through A Myers-Briggs Analysis: Personality Styles Of Principals And Teachers At The Secondary Level, Mark William Loos

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Crossing Borders: Transformative Experiences Of Euro American Bilingual Teachers In A Spanish Speaking Context, A Participatory Study, Margaret C. Laughlin Jan 1996

Crossing Borders: Transformative Experiences Of Euro American Bilingual Teachers In A Spanish Speaking Context, A Participatory Study, Margaret C. Laughlin

Master's Theses

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