Essays about: "Teacher certification"
Found 4 essays containing the words Teacher certification.
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1. Exploring foreign language teachers’ professional agency in Romanian Public Secondary schools.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: This research aims to explore how seven foreign language teachers in a few urban public secondary schools in Romania understand and enact their professional agency and how contextual factors support or constrain its achievement. The purpose is to understand the ways in which the participants’ teaching philosophies and experiences inform their awareness and achievement of agency, what they perceive as the available contextual resources within contextual constraints, and how that reflects in their beliefs and professional aspirations. READ MORE
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2. Teacher certification and student achievement - A quantitative study of Swedish compulsory schools
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This paper aims to study the impact of teacher certification on student achievement in Swedish compulsory schools by using panel data from the Swedish National Agency for Education for the period 2014/2015 – 2018/2019. In 2011, Sweden introduced new school reforms with stricter policies for teacher certification. READ MORE
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3. Picking up the PISA? Teacher certification and student achievement in Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : In an effort to raise the status of teachers and increase the quality and equity of Swedish education by ensuring competent teachers, a national and subject-specific teacher certification was introduced in 2011, despite scant evidence in favor of teacher certification. This thesis attempts to answer the question: What effect do certified teachers in Sweden have on ninth grade student achievement? By applying fixed effects models to school-level panel data spanning the academic years 2014/2015-2018/2019, this study finds that certified teachers have significant and positive effects on student achievement in mathematics, at least in terms of standardized national test results. READ MORE
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4. Impacts on teachers' lives of a capacity building course: A case study in rural Rajasthan, India.
University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPIAbstract : This case study is conducted on teachers working in Non-Formal Education centers (NFE's), for the Non-Governmental Organization Seva Mandir, in the Udaipur district in Rajasthan, India. The setting for the study is remote rural villages around the small city Udaipur, with one million inhabitants. READ MORE
