How to Improve Teaching Practice?
| Autor: | Stephen Taylor, Cas Prinsloo, Jacobus Cilliers, Brahm Fleisch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Class size Medical education business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Professional development 050301 education Coaching Literacy School teachers Management of Technology and Innovation Reading (process) 0502 economics and business 050207 economics business Psychology Baseline (configuration management) 0503 education Curriculum media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Human Resources. 55:926-962 |
| ISSN: | 1548-8004 0022-166X |
| DOI: | 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0618-9538r1 |
| Popis: | We experimentally compare two modes of in-service professional development for South African public primary school teachers. In both modes teachers received the same learning materials and daily lesson plans, aligned to the official literacy curriculum. Students exposed to two years of the program improved their reading proficiency by 0.12 standard deviations if their teachers received centralized training, compared to 0.24 if their teachers received in-class coaching. Classroom observations reveal that teachers were more likely to split students into smaller reading groups, which enabled individualized attention and more opportunities to practice reading. Results vary by class size and baseline student reading proficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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