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Prewett, Sara L.; Whitney, Stephen D. – Teacher Development, 2021
Teachers' teaching self-efficacy and teachers' feelings of negative affect may be associated with students' academic achievement; however, little is known about how these factors directly affect adolescent students' math and reading achievement. The eighth-grade wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data was used to investigate teacher…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Affective Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Kirksey, J. Jacob; Lloydhauser, Michael – AERA Open, 2022
Researchers and policymakers use certification as a metric of teaching quality in subject areas as well as subfields of education. We examined the association between having a teacher with dual certification in elementary and special education and math and reading achievement for students with disabilities (SWDs). We also examined whether dual…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Special Education, Correlation, Elementary Education
Furnari, Emily C.; Whittaker, Jessica; Kinzie, Mable; DeCoster, Jamie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
The No Child Left Behind Act requires that 95% of students in all public elementary and secondary schools are assessed in mathematics. Unfortunately, direct assessments of young students can be timely, costly, and challenging to administer. Therefore, policy makers have looked to indirect forms of assessment, such as teachers' ratings of student…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills
Furnari, Emily C.; Whittaker, Jessica; Kinzie, Mable; DeCoster, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2017
The No Child Left Behind Act requires that 95% of students in all public elementary and secondary schools are assessed in mathematics. Unfortunately, direct assessments of young students can be timely, costly, and challenging to administer. Therefore, policy makers have looked to indirect forms of assessment, such as teachers' ratings of student…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Alternative Assessment, Children, Correlation
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Gottfried, Michael A. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: Families have been increasingly utilizing center-based care both during prekindergarten as well as before/after school during kindergarten (CBC-K), and the literature has addressed the relative effectiveness of attending the former on early schooling outcomes. However, missing in the field is an analysis of the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Disabilities, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Olgan, Refika – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The first rationale of the study was not only to determine the topics taught in Turkish early childhood settings but also to define the frequency and time allocation for teaching science (n?=?382). In the second phase, through semi-structured interview questions, the aim was to gain detailed information about Turkish early childhood teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Science Instruction, Time Management, Early Childhood Education