Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve … measures of teacher effort including the number of hours that teachers spend preparing for classes and teacher provision of … parent-teacher association and ability of school principals to dismiss teachers. Methodologically, this paper provides a …

properly address teachers'skills gaps. This paper proposes a roadmap for improving the design of in-service teacher training in … potential to raise program pertinence while allowing the prioritization of investments in teachers and students with the …

Teachers, like all professionals, require ongoing professional development opportunities to improve their skills. This …

The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven … difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing … absenteeism, accountability, and student learning. This paper explores this idea using data from 16,000 teachers across eight …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while …'s teachers, and knowledge of the correlation structure of teacher knowledge across time and grades, allow estimating two … simulate the impacts of various policy reforms. Shortfalls in teachers' content knowledge account for 30 percent of the …

teacher absence. In the data, 23.6 percent of teachers were absent during unannounced visits with an associated fiscal cost of … teachers. Thus, at current margins, policies that decrease the inefficiency of public spending in India are likely to yield …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation … increase in teachers'subject matter knowledge seem to be achievable medium-term goals for education policy making in Indonesia … deviation increase in teachers'subject matter knowledge across-the-board can yield increases in student achievement by 0.25 (and …

books weakly improve test scores when provided individually. Students whose teachers have received training and whose …

-administered pilot teacher performance pay program in Punjab, Pakistan. The program offers yearly cash bonuses to teachers in a sample of …

to examine the opinions of teachers receiving different pay bonuses based on their performance as assessed by external … evaluators. Overall, teacher opinions of the program were favorable, although teachers who received lower performance ratings … held less favorable opinions about the motivational aspects of the program. Despite this, lower-rated teachers were more …