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This working paper contains a review of recent international literature on themes related to teacher effectiveness.
The first section presents a working definition of the term as used in this review. Section 2 covers general educational needs, the state of the teaching profession, and the status of teacher training in Latin America.1 Section 3 presents several different approaches to defining and measuring teacher effectiveness. Section 4 reviews findings from the literature on how to improve teacher effectiveness, and section 5 applies this information to the Latin American context. The paper concludes with a proposed definition of teacher effectiveness.
This post is also available in: SpanishThis report analyzes the main problems regarding teacher performance evaluations in primary and secondary education, through a recent literature review and a study of current practices in OECD countries.
This post is also available in: SpanishThe teacher performance evaluation is a reality that seems to be here to stay in an important and growing majority of Latin American countries. A working paper by UNESCO (Murillo, 2007) finds that only two countries in the region –Nicaragua and Paraguay- have not…
This post is also available in: SpanishHoy no se discute el hecho de que los docentes son de una importancia central para producir una educación de calidad. Sin embargo, la literatura está repleta de controversias sobre los más variados aspectos de la efectividad docente. Barbara C. Hunt – especialista en…
