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Froese-Germain, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation, 2014
Over the past few decades Canada has experienced sweeping demographic, social, economic and technological changes. These changes have had, and continue to have, a major impact on the work-life balance of Canadians--that is, on their ability to balance work and personal demands. Some of these factors also impact the work-life balance of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Work Relationship, Teaching Load, Work Environment
Rogers, J.; Mirra, N.; Seltzer, M.; Jun, J. – UCLA IDEA, 2014
California high school teachers are constantly racing against the clock. They are expected to provide a strong college preparatory curriculum, promote critical and creative thinking, and meet students' social and emotional needs. Learning time is an essential resource for addressing all of these goals. But, it seems to be in short supply in many…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Opportunities, State Surveys, School Schedules
Rogers, John; Mirra, Nicole – UCLA IDEA, 2014
This report draws on a statewide survey to examine how learning time is distributed across California high schools. The survey, conducted by UCLA IDEA during the 2013-2014 school year, included a representative sample of nearly 800 teachers. Survey findings highlight inequalities in the amount of time available for learning across low and high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Opportunities, State Surveys, School Schedules
El Helou, Maya; Nabhani, Mona; Bahous, Rima – School Leadership & Management, 2016
Teaching is a challenging profession sometimes leading to teachers' burnout: a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and reduced personal accomplishment. Burnout effects range from psychological, physical, and behavioural symptoms to increased turnover, which affects students and schools. This study identifies levels of and factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Burnout, Etiology
Matsuzaki, William Masatu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Current research has shown that about one-third of new teachers in the United States leave the profession within the first three years, thus, making it a priority to support new teachers in the classroom. To address this issue, research is needed to better understand the needs and experiences of novice educators in a variety of educational…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Case Studies, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience
National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is a system of related questionnaires that provide descriptive data on the context of elementary and secondary education and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The SASS system covers a wide range of topics from teacher demand, teacher and principal…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys, School Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
Zuze, Tia L.; Leibbrandt, Murray – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
The intent of this study is to understand both direct and indirect resource effects in the context of a mass education system in Uganda. We find that under certain conditions, policies that promote physical resource availability can lead to substantial equity gains. A school's social composition appears to improve educational quality but it is…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Equal Education
Best Practices in Academic Assessment in Higher Education: A Case in Formative and Shared Assessment
López Pastor, Víctor M. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
The aim of this article is three-fold: (a) to present an example of best practices in formative assessment in university instruction, offering three different methods of learning and assessment to pass a subject; (b) to analyze differences in academic performance depending on method of learning and assessment chosen; (c) to consider professors'…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Nasser-Abu Alhija, Fadia; Fresko, Barbara – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present paper focuses on new teachers' satisfaction with their first year of teaching from the perspective of socialization. The relationship between satisfaction with socialization and teacher background, school environment, placement, and induction variables was examined. Data were collected from 243 Israeli beginning teachers by means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Mentors, Predictor Variables
Perry, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to analyze the use of a course management system in relation to faculty characteristics and instructional environments at a rural community college in California. The use of the course management system, Blackboard, was the technology studied. This study used a nonexperimental quantitative ex post facto research…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Teacher Characteristics
Nyroos, Mikaela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
During the last three decades Swedish education has undergone radical decentralisation involving increased school autonomy. One aspect of this change is the gradual weakening of the state regulation of teaching time. Thus, Sweden is somewhat of an extreme in the EU. This is accentuated by a five-year experiment, where 900 compulsory schools were…
Descriptors: State Regulation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Administrative Organization
Ballet, Katrijn; Kelchtermans, Geert – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teaching Conditions, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers
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

Lundstrom, Karen V.; Murphy, Patricia D. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1976
The concerns of first-year home economics teachers were identified on a month-by-month basis in relationship to selected situational factors in the school and community (e.g. class size, number of daily lesson preparations, living conditions, and friends). Number of lesson preparations and reaction to administration were found to be significantly…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Environment, Educational Research, Home Economics Teachers
Black, Susan – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Stress seems to be a way of life for teachers. Many teachers describe themselves as over-whelmed. They admit to feeling anxious and apprehensive, especially about meeting the mounting needs of troubled students, doing justice to an all-consuming curriculum, and getting kids ready for a relentless series of tests. According to a study of Midwestern…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions, Teacher Burnout, Coping
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