Download or read book A Comparative Study of Teacher Efficacy in Charter and Traditional Public Schools written by Sara Capwell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if a significant difference exists between classroom teacher efficacy in traditional public schools and public charter schools as an overall measure as well as in the specific areas of student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management. The methodology was that of a quantitative causal comparative ex post facto study with sample participants located in school districts in central Florida. The accredited districts included more than 300 schools, more than 50 of which were charter schools. The results of the independent t-tests for overall teacher efficacy, teacher efficacy for student engagement, teacher efficacy for instructional practices, and teacher efficacy for classroom management indicate that no significant difference exists between charter and traditional public school teachers. Based upon the results included in this study, however, it can be concluded that teachers in charter schools feel that they can positively impact student performance in the areas of student engagement and classroom management. It is recommended that further research examine the reasons why these differences exist and how these factors impact student achievement.
Download or read book Research on Teacher Stress written by Christopher J. McCarthy and published by IAP. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume informs our understanding of how educational settings can respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Teaching has always been a challenging profession but the pandemic has added unprecedented levels of demands. Much of what we know about stress and trauma in education predates the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic recedes, it seems likely that recruiting and retaining teachers, always a challenge, will become even more difficult. This could not be worse for students, who face steep losses in their academic and socio-emotional progress after more than two years of pandemic-impacted schooling. The silver lining is that scholars who study the occupational health have spent the past several years studying the effect of the pandemic on teachers, which led us to edit this volume to collected what is known and have these experts explain how we can better support teachers in the future. This book documents the many impacts of the pandemic on the teaching profession, but also leverages research to chart a path forward. Part I examines the contours of stress, with a particular emphasis on COVID-19 impacts. These contributions range from parents’ achievement worries to compassion fatigue, and, more optimistically, how teachers cope. Part II examines pandemic impacts on pre-school teachers, in both the U.S. and in Australia. Given the social distancing in place during the pandemic, pre-school students and their teachers were under unique demands, as there is no substitute for the personal connection critical at that age. It is likely that students entering elementary school in the next few years will have work to do in their social skills. Part III focuses on mentoring and stress during the pandemic. Mentoring is an important part of teacher’s professional development, but the pandemic scrambled traditional forms of mentoring as all teachers were thrown into unfamiliar online technology. The final section of this book, Part IV, includes links between teacher stress and trauma during the pandemic. Clearly, with the ongoing nature of the pandemic, it is easy to see how trauma is likely to manifest in years to come. Readers of this book will better understand teacher demands, as well as the resources teachers will need going forward. Teachers made heroic efforts during the pandemic to help their students both academically and personally. We owe to them to learn from research during the pandemic that points to the way to a healthier occupational future.
Download or read book Quantitatively Comparing Academic Achievement in Secondary Charter and Public Schools Implementing Career Academies written by Timothy A. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s publication "A Nation at Risk", policy makers have continually sought to improve America's education system by crafting education policies with strict guidelines. Recent policies like No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and now the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), are calling for increased accountability of school districts measured by standardized test scores. With the threat of losing funding and facing sanctions for failing to meet minimum College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI) requirements, school districts are continually looking for research-based strategies and reform models that promise to enhance student achievement. Researchers have examined various reform models and methods including schools-within-a-school, small learning communities, career academies, school choice, career pathways, and charter schools. Some studies have displayed successful increases in student achievement as a result of implementing these reforms individually. However, the results have not proven to be entirely reproducible as other researchers exhibit insignificant findings. This casual-comparative design compared career academy charter schools to traditional public schools that had implemented career academies. The independent variable was school type-charter school and public school. The dependent variables were Georgia End-of-Course Test scores in the areas of English Language Arts, math, and science. Using ANOVA analysis, significant findings on one out of three measures indicated that implementing career academies at charter schools increased student achievement in science more than the implementation at public schools. The implementation did not positively or negatively impact ELA scores or math. However, when grade level was incorporated as a covariate, ANCOVA analysis revealed that implementing career academies at public schools significantly impacted student achievement in math compared to the charter site. The analysis also revealed that as grade level increased, so did test scores. ANCOVA analysis of the science data indicated that career academy charter school students significantly outperformed the public school career academy students. However, no interaction effects were observed between grade level and test scores. ANCOVA did not impact the results in ELA.
Download or read book The Great School Debate written by Thomas L. Good and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will present a comprehensive examination of the latest school reform effort, the charter school movement. For anyone seriously interested in school reform & the charter school movement, including teachers, principals, & college educ faculty.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching written by Drew Gitomer and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Edition of the Handbook of Research on Teachingis an essential resource for students and scholars dedicated to the study of teaching and learning. This volume offers a vast array of topics ranging from the history of teaching to technological and literacy issues. In each authoritative chapter, the authors summarize the state of the field while providing conceptual overviews of critical topics related to research on teaching. Each of the volume's 23 chapters is a canonical piece that will serve as a reference tool for the field. The Handbook provides readers with an unaparalleled view of the current state of research on teaching across its multiple facets and related fields.
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Download or read book The Relationship Between the Effective Schools Characteristics Collective Teacher Efficacy and Student Achievement in High Poverty High Minority Populated Elementary Schools in Mississippi written by Sherry Hall Shepard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine whether statistically significant relationships exist between the independent variables of the characteristics of effective schools and collective teacher efficacy and the dependent variable student achievement. The study was conducted in 30 elementary schools representative of high poverty, high minority populated schools in Mississippi. The dependent variable for the study, student achievement, was measured using the School Performance Classification (SPC) assigned to each school by the Mississippi Department of Education. The independent variables for the study, the characteristics of effective schools and collective teacher efficacy, were measured using two instruments, the School Effectiveness Questionnaire (Baldwin, Coney, Fardig, & Thomas, 1993) and the Collective Efficacy Scale (Goddard, Hoy, & Woolfolk, 2000). These instruments gauged the teachers' perceptions of the degree to which each of the factors included in the study were present in the schools. The school was the unit of measure. The population consisted of 198 high poverty, high minority populated elementary schools located throughout Mississippi. A proportional stratified random technique was used to select the final sample for the study. A univariate correlational analysis was conducted to determine the strength of relationships between variables. Additionally, multiple regression was used to determine the multiple correlations among the variables. The study concluded that the characteristics of effective schools and collective teacher efficacy model is a strong predictor of student achievement. Further, the findings showed that collective teacher efficacy, clear and focused mission, and high expectations for success were significant predictors for student achievement in the model. As a result of the analysis of the data from the study, the following recommendations for further research are proposed: (1) A study that examines more closely the relationship between collective teacher efficacy and student achievement. (2) A study that focuses on schools that have implemented a school improvement program based on characteristics of school effectiveness. (3) A study that examines the relationship between the principal's perception of the degree to which characteristics of effectiveness are present in the school and the teachers' perception of the degree to which characteristics of effectiveness are present in the school.
Download or read book Selling School written by Catherine DiMartino and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book outlines the growth and development of marketing and branding practices in public education. The authors highlight why these practices have become important across key fields within public education, including leadership and governance, budgeting and finance, strategic initiatives, use of new technology, the role of teachers in marketing, and messaging. From an organizational perspective, they explore the implications of edvertising on the democratic mission of public education, especially as related to issues of equity and access for students who have been historically underserved. The authors argue that expansive marketing campaigns, unequal funding sources, and lack of regulation are quickly and profoundly reshaping public education without the benefit of robust research or public debate. Selling School is important reading for principals navigating increasingly marketized school systems, for policymakers constructing legislation, and for parents negotiating school choice. “DiMartino and Jessen are right in their prescient discussion of the muddling of public and private models in public education through marketing.” —From the Foreword by Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University, Bloomington “This book pioneers new ground as the authors move the literature on the marketization of education into a more nuanced analysis of how branding discourses and practices have entered the logic of public schooling.” —Gary L. Anderson, New York University “Essential for readers interested in learning about how private sector practices affect the functions of public schools.” —Janelle Scott, University of California, Berkeley
Download or read book Effective Teachers Student Achievement written by James Stronge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.
Download or read book Reinventing Public Education written by Paul Hill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Education shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better able to meet standards of achievement and equity. Using public funds, local school boards would select private providers to operate individual schools under formal contracts specifying the type and quality of instruction. In a hands-on, concrete fashion, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the pros and cons of school contracting and how it would work in practice. They show how contracting would free local school boards from operating schools so they can focus on improving educational policy; how it would allow parents to choose the best school for their children; and, finally, how it would ensure that schools are held accountable and academic standards are met. While retaining a strong public role in education, contracting enables schools to be more imaginative, adaptable, and suited to the needs of children and families. In presenting an alternative vision for America’s schools, Reinventing Public Education is too important to be ignored.
Download or read book An Analysis of Academic Achievement in Public Elementary Open enrollment Charter and Traditional Public Schools written by Tammy Benson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine two types of school organizational structures: elementary open-enrollment charter schools and elementary traditional public schools. The study examined the degree to which attendance rates (based upon the prior school year's data), class size and average number of years of teaching experience were related to academic achievement (third and fourth grade reading and math TAKS scale scores). Performance outcomes (academic achievement) were also compared within these two organizational structures. Participating schools for the study included 25 elementary charter schools and 25 comparable elementary traditional public schools located within Texas. The study revealed there was a positive correlation between attendance rates and 3rd and 4th grade Reading and Math TAKS scale scores in open-enrollment charter schools. In traditional public schools, there was a positive correlation between teacher years of experience and 3rd and 4th grade Reading TAKS scale scores. Overall, traditional public school had higher Reading and Math scale scores than their matched open-enrollment charter school.
Download or read book Charter School Outcomes written by Mark Berends and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter schools. The purpose of this volume is to help monitor this fast-growing movement by compiling, organizing and making available some of the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 charter schools. Key features of this important new book include: Expertise – The National Center on School Choice includes internationally known scholars from the following institutions: Harvard University, Brown University, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwest Evaluation Association. Cross-Disciplinary – The volume brings together material from related disciplines and methodologies that are associated with the individual and systemic effects of charter schools. Coherent Structure – Each section begins with a lengthy introduction that summarizes the themes and major findings of that section. A summarizing chapter by Mark Schneider, the Commissioner of the National Center on Educational Statistics, concludes the book. This volume is appropriate for researchers, instructors and graduate students in education policy programs and in political science and economics, as well as in-service administrators, policy makers, and providers.
Download or read book Getting Choice Right written by Julian R. Betts and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education examines the connections between school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in education. The contributors—distinguished university professors, high school administrators, and scholars from research institutions around the country—assess the efficiency of the educational system, analyzing efforts to boost average achievement. Their discussion of equity focuses on the reduction of racial and religious segregation in education, as well as measures to ensure that "no child is left behind." The result is an authoritative and balanced look at how to maximize benefits while minimizing risks in the implementation of school choice. The National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education was established to explore how choice works and to examine how communities interested in the potential benefits of new school options could obtain them while avoiding choice's potential harms. In addition to the editors, commissioners include Paul T. Hill and Dan Goldhaber (University of Washington), David Ferrero (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Brian P. Gill and Laura Hamilton (Rand), Jeffrey R. Henig (Teachers College, Columbia University), Frederick M. Hess (American Enterprise Institute), Stephen Macedo (Princeton University), Lawrence Rosenstock (High Tech High, San Diego), Charles Venegoni (Civitas Schools in Chicago), Janet Weiss (University of Michigan), and Patrick J. Wolf (Georgetown University).
Download or read book Teacher efficacy with Standards based Education for Eigth grade Mathematics in a 21st century skill Framework written by Jemmeta DeMay Nesbeth and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this case study was to describe eighth-grade mathematics teachers' perception of teacher-efficacy and standards-based education within a 21st-century framework at a large suburban school district in North Carolina. Rotter's locus of control theory and Bandura's self-efficacy theory provide the guiding theoretical frameworks for this study. Both theories explain the personal characteristics of teacher qualities related to learning outcomes. This study addressed the following central research question: What is the perceived self-efficacy of eighth-grade mathematics teachers and standards-based education? I applied the extreme case sampling method to select the 12 unique participants and provide different perspectives. I collected data from documents, journal prompts, and interviews. Strategies for the data analysis consisted of confidential monitoring of the obtained data, memoing the key formulated ideas, codifying and identifying emerging themes. The study confirmed that districts must train teachers to develop high levels of teacher-efficacy as they research and use evidence-based instructional strategies to improve student performance.
Download or read book An Analysis of Student Achievement Growth Teacher Working Conditions and Qualifications and School Choice written by Marisa Cannata and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the importance of teachers to student learning, it is important to understand how schools of choice differ in terms of the types and uses of human capital inside schools. Despite research that highlights important differences in the qualifications and staffing practices of schools of choice, there is no evidence about whether observed differences in teachers' qualifications, work contexts, and professional development across school types help understand the impact of school choice on student achievement. This paper explores the following question: How do variations in the work lives of teachers across charter, magnet, private, and traditional public schools contribute to differences in student achievement across these school types? This study highlights the difficulty researchers have faced in identifying characteristics of effective teachers or indicators of teacher quality as few characteristics of teachers, their assignments, or work contexts were related to student achievement gains. There is some evidence that the effects on student achievement growth of participating in reform-style professional development and activities that involve active learning differ by school choice. Despite the difficulties of explaining student achievement growth with teacher characteristics, the results here point to differences in achievement growth between different types of schools. Charter schools had larger student achievement gains than traditional public schools in math, reading, and language usage. Private and magnet schools had lower achievement gains in some subjects. An appendix is included. (Contains 8 tables.).
Download or read book Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching written by Milbrey W. McLaughlin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American high schools have never been under more pressure to reform: student populations are more diverse than ever, resources are limited, and teachers are expected to teach to high standards for all students. While many reformers look for change at the state or district level, the authors here argue that the most local contexts—schools, departments, and communities—matter the most to how well teachers perform in the classroom and how satisfied they are professionally. Their findings—based on one of the most extensive research projects ever done on secondary teaching—show that departmental cultures play a crucial role in classroom settings and expectations. In the same school, for example, social studies teachers described their students as "apathetic and unwilling to work," while English teachers described the same students as "bright, interesting, and energetic." With wide-ranging implications for educational practice and policy, this unprecedented look into teacher communities is essential reading for educators, administrators, and all those concerned with U. S. High Schools.
Download or read book Examining a Decade of Reading and Mathematics Student Achievement Among Primary and Secondary Traditional Public School and Charter School Students written by Matthew J. Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, the focus on student achievement in America's public schools has dramatically increased. The pressure to perform and show growth in student achievement has been challenging due to increased levels of competition through school choice across the nation. Charter schools are one of the most recent education reform movements designed to increase accountability, innovation, and competition. Since the adoption of the first charter law was passed in Minnesota in 1991, the number of charter schools has grown rapidly across the nation. "Charter schools have recast the definition of public school and have presented the field of education with its greatest challenge" (Murphy & Dunn, 2002, p. 1). According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, there are currently over 5,000 charter schools that operate in 42 states and the District of Columbia, serving more than 1.6 million students ("Charter schools 101:," 2012). Students across the country have the option to attend charter schools or remain in the home school district. Parents and students are challenged to make a choice of which educational avenue is best for their family and must weigh all of the advantages and disadvantages to see which may produce the greatest outcomes and meet the needs of a diverse student population. Parents and students are challenged to make a choice of which educational avenue is best for their family and must weigh all of the advantages and disadvantages to see which may produce the greatest outcomes and meet the needs of a diverse student population. The current investigation synthesizes numerous studies conducted across the nation at the elementary, middle and high school level. Meta-analytic techniques assist parents and educators in making evidence-based decisions while adding to the research supporting educational reform and promoting best practices in both educational models. This study was specifically designed to consider a number of variables in charter schools relative to traditional public schools, including socioeconomic status, English Language Learning, school competition, and eligibility for special education that may impact student mathematics and reading achievement. Analysis revealed that charter schools are producing lower achievement scores in reading and mathematics when compared to traditional public schools.
