Teacher Effectiveness: Accepting the Null Hypothesis

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  • James T. Sanders

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v12i3.43777

Résumé

The contemporary behavioristic analysis of teaching and teacher effectiveness has assumed that there is a necessary empirical relationship between differences in teachers' classroom behaviors and levels of student achievement. It is argued that this assumption lacks both empirical support and conceptual plausibility. The consequences of " accepting the null hypothesis" of differential teacher effectiveness are discussed with reference to their implications for teacher evaluation , teacher accountability and teacher education.  

Biographie de l'auteur-e

James T. Sanders

James T. Sanders is an Associate Pro fessor of Educational Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

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2018-05-11

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