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Caukin, Nancy; Dillard, Heather; Goodin, Terry – SRATE Journal, 2016
This study reports on Residency I, the first semester of a yearlong residency that utilizes problem-based learning scenarios, combined with field work, that covers both content and context and is meant to positively impact teacher candidates' self-efficacy as well as their actual efficacy as measured by scores on the edTPA. This quantitative…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy
Sawchuk, Steven – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
The author reports on an experimental study of performance-based teacher compensation conducted in the U.S. which shows that a nationally watched bonus-pay system had no overall impact on student achievement. Nearly 300 middle school mathematics teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, voluntarily took part in the Project on Incentives in Teaching, a…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Salaries, Incentives
Ross, Steven M.; McDonald, Aaron; Gallagher, Brenda McSparrin – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2004
In the present study, 49 fifth-graders enrolled the KIPP D.I.A.M.O.N.D. Academy in the 2002-03 school year were individually matched to control student from five feeder schools on the basis of ethnicity, free-reduced lunch status, and fourth-grade achievement on the Reading and Mathematics subtests of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Control Groups, Achievement Tests, Writing Evaluation