| |
Teacher Reform
Teacher
Management Resources
Online
Articles
ABSTRACT: Important policy decisions rest on the relationship
between teacher salaries and the quality of teachers, but the evidence about the strength
of any such relationship is thin. This paper investigate how shifts in salary schedules
affect the composition of teachers within a Texas school district. In analyses both of
teacher mobility and of student performance, teacher salaries are shown to have a modest
impact. Found that the only significant relationship between salaries and student
achievement holds for existing experienced teachers and not for new hires or for
probationary teachers.
- State Leaders Urged to Look at Japan and Singapore for Ways to Improve
Teacher Quality
Julianne Basinger
Chronicle of Higher Education, Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Click this link to access the full text
-
Recruitment of Rural Teachers in Developing Countries: An Economic
Analysis
Patrick J. McEwan, Stanford University, USA
Teaching and Teacher Education, v15 n8 Nov 1999, p849-59
ABSTRACT: Monetary and non-monetary incentives for rural
teacher recruitment are a prominent feature of developing-country education systems.
Despite the widespread use of incentives, there is little theoretical or empirical
evidence on their effectiveness. This paper interprets incentive policies within the
framework of the economic theory of compensating differentials. The discussion clarifies
the implicit assumptions of incentive policies and aids in organizing further empirical
work on their effectiveness. Existing evidence on compensating differentials, mainly in
the United States, shows that teachers tend to trade off monetary wages against
non-monetary aspects of their jobs, such as geographic location and class size.
-
Teacher Attrition: A Review of the Literature
Doune Macdonald, University of Queensland, Australia
Teaching and Teacher Education, v15 n8 Nov 1999, p835-48
ABSTRACT: Teacher attrition is generally positioned within
research addressing teacher shortage, the wastage of resources and expertise, as well as
that concerning teachers' lowly status and poor working conditions. As such the research
is fragmented and diverse. This paper attempts to draw together contemporary international
attrition research in order to consider: how teacher attrition may be defined; patterns of
attrition; influences upon attrition; the impact of attrition; and strategies employed for
decreasing attrition. It concludes that research concerning teacher attrition requires the
development of more comprehensive databases on teaching personnel and increased clarity of
how attrition is being framed and investigated.
-
Selection and Development of International Indicators on Staffing
HWCH Gonnie Van Amelsvoort, Maria A. Hendricks & Jaap Scheerens
Education Economics, v8 n1 Apr 2000, 17-36
ABSTRACT: International comparisons of indicators on staffing
are regarded as a useful information base to policymakers. Politically relevant staffing
indicators in relation to the costs, planning and quality of education deal with training,
working conditions, staff characteristics, and stability and mobility of the teaching
force. In order to obtain reliable and comparable information from the indicators, a long
conceptual process of selection, defining and developing is needed. By way of illustration
the current state of the development process of staffing indicators on tertiary education
are described. Three rationales for selection distinguished are a) macro-level
descriptions, b) system level conditions that affect teachers' motivation, and c) the
effectiveness and efficiency perspective. Next, the results of some 'ready to use'
indicators for primary and secondary education are presented.
Book
-
Understanding and Preventing Teacher Burnout : A Sourcebook of
International Research and Practice
Roland Vandenberghe and A. Michael Huberman, editors
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 362 p. -- SITRC Call No.
LB2840.2 .U53 1999Y
ABSTRACT: Attempts to provide new perspectives and a deeper
understanding of the nature, conditions, and consequences of burnout in the teaching
profession. Twenty chapters by international contributors (primarily from OECD countries)
review the most recent research in the field, describe a research agenda, and provide an
action agenda designed to prevent the incidence of burnout in the workplace.
|
