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Khazanchi, Pankaj – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research over the past decade suggests teachers have low instructional self-efficacy/confidence and more concerns about implementing inclusive teaching practices. This quantitative correlational study explored whether reported concerns and demographic variables (gender, age, education, and years of teaching experience) predicts teachers'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Inclusion, Teacher Characteristics
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Waller, Sophie; McCullick, Bryan A.; Schempp, Paul G. – Physical Educator, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore physical educators' perspectives on the barriers to employing technology in physical education instruction. The participants of this study were 253 elementary, middle, and high school physical education teachers who taught in the state of Georgia. The participants completed an online survey that was derived…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Barriers
National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2010
Working with Richard Ingersoll, professor of Education and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) examined and analyzed data from the "Schools and Staffing Survey" (SASS), the largest and most comprehensive source of data on teachers, gathered from a nationally…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Retirement, Baby Boomers, Retirement Benefits
Colquitt, Gavin T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the predictive ability of six teacher variables: absenteeism, age, gender, degree level, certification status, and experience on fifth-grade mathematics achievement as measured by norm- and criterion-referenced tests. The study was conducted in a large suburban school district in Georgia…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Attendance, Norm Referenced Tests
Berryman, Joan D.; Berryman, Charles R. – 1981
Because teacher attitude could be crucial to the success or failure of mainstreaming handicapped children, the Attitudes Toward Mainstreaming Scale (ATMS) was developed to establish a baseline of current teacher attitudes towards mainstreaming and to monitor future attitudinal changes, and was validated and cross-validated through a principal axis…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Henry, Gary T.; Gordon, Craig S.; Mashburn, Andrew; Ponder, Bentley D. – 2001
The Georgia Prekindergarten Program was established in 1993 to provide the state's 4-year-olds with high-quality preschool experiences. A five-year, longitudinal study examined the ways in which differences in prekindergarten services received by 3,639 Pre-K 4-year-olds affected them during their first 3 years of elementary school and assessed the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement, Elementary School Students