In an effort to explore the impact of performance incentives in education, the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) partnered with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to conduct the Project on Incentives in Teaching, or POINT. The study examines the effects on student outcomes of paying eligible teachers bonuses of up to…

This study focuses on how the treatment effects of a teacher professional development initiative in science differed by school capacity. In other words, the authors are primarily concerned with treatment effect heterogeneity. As such, this paper complements ongoing evaluation of the average treatment effects of the initiative over time. The…

Interview guides and a questionnaire were developed in order to find what factors demotivated students in Japanese high school English classrooms. Five college students who were attending two private universities and one public university shared their views about demotivation in the interviews. Forty-two students at a public university responded…

In his book "The World Is Flat," Friedman (2005) argued that people have under-appreciated the role that humiliation plays in terrorism. If it is true, that humiliation plays a role in terrorism, what role might this under-appreciated emotion play in middle school? If terrorists act, in part, based on humiliation, how do middle school students act…

In the past politics deprived many African children (in particular) in South Africa the opportunity of achieving quality education. This was most especially true in subjects such as mathematics and science. In this research the science teacher-level data from Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1999 (TIMSS'99) were analysed with a…

The lack of separation, in the mind of the teacher, of self from student is a common, though dangerous, phenomenon. The underlying assumption is that teachers and their students are really the same, but that students are betraying that supposed sameness by not performing satisfactorily. But students, being different from their teachers, have…

A discussion of the results of a microteaching experiment in Great Britain that indicates that self-instructional microteaching is effective in bringing about large and stable changes in teacher behavior. (Author/HB)

From the perspective of perceptual psychology the goal of educational psychology is to educate students who, freed to discover the personal meaning of information and apply it to problem solving situations throughout the teacher education program, begin the process of becoming effective teachers. (RC)

In 1973 a commission of the FMF (Modern Foreign Language League, Federal Republic of Germany) published a proposal for a taxonomy of activity characteristics of the FL teacher. Kurt Otten criticized this proposal in the weekly "Die Zeit" (19 April 1974). Here, members of the FMF commission reject four of Otten's assertions. (Text is in…

An attempt was made to change the beliefs and instructional behaviour of 23 prospective teachers in accord with John Dewey's philosophy of experimentalism. Results indicate that there was significant change in their beliefs as well as in their classroom teaching behaviour. (Author)

In presenting classification problems to a random sampling of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students, the author was able to devise a method of using interaction analysis as a tool to measure student behavior patterns in the outdoors. Limitations included the inability to categorize non-verbal behavior. (MA)

This paper opened a workshop session designed to demonstrate a group training process using the collegial modeling process. This process was developed within the faculty of a small high school serving a correctional facility. The program described was developed to allow teachers the option to model specific behaviors to both their colleagues and…

A study determined if there were common psychological causes associated with teachers who considered themselves more-than-average procrastinators and who also felt that they were under personal and professional stress as a result of their work. Interviews were conducted with 44 secondary school teachers to elicit responses regarding educational…

This presentation briefly reviews literature on first year teachers, summarizes findings from naturalistic research conducted in a first year teacher's classroom, and identifies implications for the preparation of teachers. Research studies indicate a need for more rich descriptions of teaching experiences to identify problem areas and to assess…