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Cobbold, Cosmas – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The problem of getting sufficient numbers of qualified teachers to staff classrooms is one of the most significant public policy issues facing many countries. In Ghana, the problem of teacher shortage has been a perennial one, necessitated by educational expansion as well as adverse socio-economic and political circumstances, and exacerbated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Change Strategies, Predictor Variables
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Howie, Sarah J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
South African pupils performed well below the TIMSS international average in 1995 and 1999 and significantly below all other countries (including the other African countries) in the 1999 study. Path analysis, namely Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis, was applied to the South African TIMSS-R data to explore the effect of contextual factors at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Size, Mathematics Achievement, Context Effect
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Basom, Margaret R.; Frase, Larry – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
The purpose of this article is to provide a new perspective on the intricacies of the work life in schools that motivate and satisfy teachers. The authors review the literature related to the improvement of school environments and the concept of "flow" as defined by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1990). He describes flow as a "state in which people are…
Descriptors: Organizational Effectiveness, Work Environment, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Motivation