Today, the knowledge has been disqualified for developments and changes. So, it is the person’s own responsibility to follow the changes. The people, especially the teachers will have redounded the qualifications if they follow the knowledge. Today, the postgraduate education comes into...

The study made an attempt for exploring the attitude of prospective teachers towards profession. Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab Lahore  and University of Education Lahore were taken as sample institutions. An attitude scale and personal information sheet were...

The present study was a descriptive-correlational study conducted to examine the relationship between managers’ leadership style and professional satisfaction of teachers of girls’ elementary school of Khomeinishahr in 2012-2013. The statistical population consisted of all girls’...

This paper examines the motivation of teacher trainees to select the teaching profession. The author compares motivation in metropolitan and developing countries and makes the conclusion that based upon the research executed at various universities the motivational model differs in metropolitan...

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

240 Schulleiter wurden nach ihren Erwartungen und Ansprüchen gegenüber ihren Lehrpersonen befragt. Eine Clusteranalyse ergab zwei Gruppen von Schulleitern: An Schuladministration und Schulordnung orientierte (Gruppe I) und eher pädagogisch geleitete Schulleiter (Gruppe II). Die Schulleiter...

Low teacher motivation and its detrimental effect on student achievement are central problems of many education systems in Africa. Using standardized data for student achievement in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d`Ivoire, Madagascar and Senegal, this paper analyzes the empirical links between...

Aufgrund der derzeit breiten Einführung von Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen sowie des zunehmenden Drucks vom Arbeitsmarkt sollte die Einführung von Angeboten zum Erwerb von Schlüsselkompetenzen möglichst schnell und flächendeckend erfolgen, wobei ein hoher Qualitätsstandard der Angebote...

The German education system is currently undergoing a reorientation from formerly exclusively input-based control towards output-based measures of quality assurance in schools and universities. A crucial instrument in this reform process is the implementation of educational standards. This...

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...