Educational resources distributed via the Internet are rapidly proliferating. One prominent concern associated with these potentially transformative developments is that, as many of the leading technologies of the last several decades have been, these new sweeping technological changes will be...

We investigate the impact of the "Metrobank Award for Outstanding Teachers" using a unique dataset from a survey of teachers who competed from 1988 to 2010. Our study is one of the firsts to use income as the primary indicator of success. When the sample is limited to those who were actively...

Education courses now involve homework assignments that require technology skill as well as domain knowledge. Yet there is little pedagogical and technological support for teaching “What” (statistical mean) while simultaneously teaching “How” (use the =average (Range) function in Excel)....

Objective – Employee satisfaction and employee performance are critical to a service-oriented organization and its performance. Employees play a crucial role in the successful delivery of service and maintaining customer relationships in service oriented organizations. Satisfied employees in...

Objective - This research aims to explore whether the intention of ICT adoption in teaching Malay language acts as a mediator in the relationship between attitudes toward ICT adoption and the adoption of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) among secondary school Malay Language...

Twitter is useful for academic economists to follow current research and public policy and to engage with their colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics courses. A course specific twitter hashtag embedded in...

Gender differences in school performance, raises the question of why one gender under-performs. Discrimination is one potential reason, and here I exploit a systemic structure in Norwegian high schools that allows me to identify the level of gender discrimination in grade setting. The results...

This study examines the capabilities of in-service secondary school teachers to provide financial education. Data was gathered from online surveys which were spread among 300 teachers in the Flemish region of Belgium. We distinguish between perceived and actual capabilities. Our results reveal...

Purpose: The current study aims to examine the impact of teachers’ job satisfaction and self-efficacy in improving service quality. Furthermore, the research explores the various clusters of the respondents according to their behavior, as teachers emphasizing on different aspects of marketing:...

This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...