Third-country faculty are faced with significant challenges interacting with university students who come from different socio-cultural backgrounds and have different expectations regarding faculty's role, behavior, and leadership style. This paper compares diversity practices and action options that can facilitate or hinder the integration of…

Because you can't possibly know exactly what will motivate every student, it's vital to have a reliable blueprint and a set of strategies that are proven to work across a broad spectrum of students. That's why you need this book from a teacher and psychologist with over 30 years of experience. Drawing from recent research of the concepts of…

Purpose: Student evaluation of teaching (SET) questionnaires are used in many countries, although much current research questions the validity of these surveys. US research indicates that more than 90 percent of academic accounting departments use this performance measurement. This paper aims to focus on the validity of SET data.…

According to Martin, Benjamin, Prosser, and Trigwell (1999), the scholarship associated with teaching consists of three related activities which integrate the key functions of higher education, namely engagement with the existing knowledge on teaching and learning; self-reflection on teaching and learning in one's discipline; and the public…

Contributions of parental involvement in educational pursuits as well as math teachers' classroom behavior to students' motivation and performance in math were investigated. By the end of the first school term, 365 Slovene eighth graders reported on their parents' academic involvement (pressure, support, and help) and their math teachers' behavior…

Lists activities to expect from teachers before and during a teacher strike. (IRT)

Ten suggestions are given that will help teachers and others cope with their daily frustrations. (RC)

Macroanalysis is the process of analyzing interactive dialogue into units of three or more tallies. It represents another level of analysis for interactive data which should lead to new directions for research in this area. (Author)

This study investigates the relationship between teacher verbal maze rate and student learning and the threshhold levels of maze rate on the perceived quality of teaching. The direct and mediated effects of maze rate on achievement are examined. A randomized group design with ten levels of the independent variable teacher maze rate was used. There…

A four-year study was conducted to test the hypothesis that indirect teacher behaviors foster pupil creativity more than do direct teacher behaviors. Multivariate composite scores derived from interaction analysis data were used to classify 180 elementary school students (who had the same teacher for grades 1 through 3, and a different teacher in…

Twenty-six elementary teacher competencies are listed in this catalog. For each competency, indicators of proficiency are listed in terms of the teacher's behavior, learner activities, and products of the learner. The competencies are divided into six general categories: (a) diagnosis and prescription; (b) instructional planning and evaluation;…

This bulletin contains selected lists of teacher performance specifications regarded as generally applicable to teacher education curriculum for undergraduates. ("Performance specifications" are statements which describe particular competencies or competency requirements that a teacher should possess in order to operate at optimum…

The concept of performance-based teacher certification asks that criteria for certification (whether knowledge and/or behavior and/or the product of behavior) be made explicit and that students of teaching be held accountable in relation to these criteria. Central to the question of performance-based criteria is the issue of whether performance…