Concepts must be identified analysis and then explicitly and logically linked together integration through the higherorder process of reasoning, leading to new understanding. Teacher training, teacher quality, and student achievement. Teachers these days are up to their ears in work that must be accomplished each day. The concept of teachers competencies is mostly discussed in very narrow dimension s such as teachers planning, implementation, assessment of the curriculum, standards for the curriculum or. Total factor productivity tfp defined as the ratio of a measure of total t. Valueadded models and the measurement of teacher productivity douglas harris, tim sass, and anastasia semykina calder working paper no. It is the common thinking that the productivity concept is applied in manufacturing systems only. It is the product of the attempt to briefly discuss, to a client or a prospective sponsor, the highlights of the project being developed. Factors affecting teachers motivation social science. It specifically assesses the performance of students in two key subjects english language and mathematics in external examinations held in nigeria. In press extending teacher assessment and professional development beyond knowledge and skills. This report analyzes the measurement challenges associated with the.
Of these, 2,055 emails were successfully delivered to respondents, and 478 hr professionals responded, yielding a. In addition to time spent in front of students, teachers spend hours writing lesson plans and learning objectives, creating and grading tests and assignments, as well as attending meetings, professional development seminars, and courses for keeping up with certification. They have documented, virtually without exception, enormous and. Exploring teachers selfesteem and its effects on teaching, students learning and self esteem. Being conscious of needs and concerns of the community. In some cases they have measured productivity directly. Also included is a case study of the toronto, canada, board of education.
Productivity, the efficiency with which this conversion occurs, has been a topic of particular interest. The study findings also indicated a weak correlation between motivational practices and teachers. In other words, it measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used in an economy to produce a given level of output. Trained teachers are more confident than undertrained ones in solving students problem. Employee productivity sometimes referred to as workforce productivity is an assessment of the efficiency of a worker or group of workers. The main focus of human factors research has been on improving individual task performance. Strategies for enhancing the productivity of secondary. In order to keep pace with the changes we are seeing in schools, districts, and states on an almost daily basis, we also need to change how often the national education technology plan is updated. Many teachers on their first day of work feel nakedshoved into a room with a few behavior theories, some lesson plans, a few dos and donts, and not much else. Ignoring these perceptions and experiences in favor of. Look at all six problems, and then do the four you think will help you learn best. A central feature of oregons outcomebased approach to the initial preparation and licensure of teachers. Pdf this study investigates strategies used by principals for. Methodology pretenure and posttenure data determining research productivity levels of tenured faculty members n24 were collected from the college of education at a.
Research consistently finds that teacher productivity is the most important component of a schools effect on student learning and that there is considerable heterogeneity in teacher productivity within and across schools. Productivity is the relationship between a given amount of output and the amount of input needed to produce it. The concept of teacher education primarily states that the quality and extent of the achievement of the learners are determined primarily by teacher competence, sensitivity and teacher motivation. The american economist defining productivity in the. Metrics and tools for measuring construction productivity.
Educational process goals are interpreted to include student perceptions of the social environment, creativity, selfconcept, participation in extracurricular activities, and interest in subject matter. The underlying belief is that the central question driving education and teacher evaluation should focus on what teachers and schools can accomplish with students. Profitability results when money is left over from sales after costs are paid. The questionnaire contains 25 items designed to find out expression of primary school teachers on the causes and impacts of stress on teachers productivity. At the high end of concept development, we see frequent examples of analysis and reasoning, and the teacher s questions lead to sustained instructional discussions. As a result, the ratio of outputs to inputs, the standard concept of productivity, does. Organisational productivity pulls into themes a range of productivity measures and concepts, and in doing so can be seen as a concept that continues to evolve and address contemporary issues. The instrument used for data collection is a researcherconstructed questionnaire titled. Causes and impact of stress on teachers productivity questionnaire cistpq. This assertion is evident from the visible poor performance of students in both internal and external examinations. The productivity of teachers in schools has reportedly declined over the years. Sabeen farid abstract the study was designed to examine the factors affecting motivational level of teachers at secondary school level in rawalpindi city. Skills, productivity and the evaluation of teacher performance. Co encompasses the teacherss ability to provide clear behavioral expectations and use effective methods to prevent and redirect misbehavior definition of the dimension productivity considers how well the teacher manages instructional time and routines and provides activities for students so that they have the opportunity to be involved in.
The purpose of this study was to explore the teachers selfesteem and its effects on teaching and students learning and selfesteem. The amount of material formed by each link in the food chain per unit of time per unit area or volume is the production rate. The third concept of productivity is the production rate, at which the growth processes are going forward within the area. This instrument involves both an observation and interview of the teacher being evaluated. The particulars of these studies have varied depending on the researchers specific interests, but there is a common thread. To find out the extent teachers personnel management operational framework determines of teachers productivity in secondary schools in delta state, nigeria.
Causes and impact of stress on teachers productivity as. Concept notes, as its name suggests, is a brief summary that discusses the ideas regarding a project being proposed and the objectives that it is aiming to achieve. Productivity is considered a key source of economic growth and competitiveness. Abstract this study investigated factors hindering teacher productivity in public secondary schools in oyo. Introduction productivity is the output of any production process, per unit of input. To increase educational productivity and efficiency, educational process goals as well as achievement goals must be considered. In a country where human resource is abundant, it is a pity that they remain under. Factors hindering teachers productivity in public secondary schools.
Issues in the use of teacher productivity as an aspect of teacher evaluation are discussed, focusing on defining and measuring productivity. Findings on the impact of teacher experience at the high school level are less definitive. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Factors hindering teachers productivity in public secondary. Teachers should be authoritative in the classroom to teach effectively. The expenditures made to ensure that the product or service meets quality specifications affect the final or overall cost of the products andor services. Request pdf factors hindering teachers productivity in public secondary schools this study investigated factors hindering teacher productivity in public. For example, managers decide how to establish optimal incentives or how much training to provide for employees, while policymakers make decisions about the regulation of working hours. But ignoring the human resource can prove to be disastrous.
Pdf strategies for enhancing the productivity of secondary school. As educational resources are used to facilitate the achievement of curriculum aims and objectives for maximum effort, however, their uses must be properly planned. Most indicators can be rated by observing the teacher and the classroom activities. Performance measures and worker productivity motivation politicians and managers often make decisions that involve the behavior of individuals at work. Environmental factors affecting the productivity in ecosystem. The study provided the contextual framework of the study, defined. By definition, productivity can be increased by increasing outputs, decreasing inputs. Workplace productivity online poll was sent to 2,500 randomly selected shrm members. Multifactor productivity mfp defined as the ratio of a measure of output quantity to a measure of the quantity of a bundle of inputs often intended to approximate total input.
Eric ed167462 a theory of educational productivity. Human resources development and teachers productivity in. Researchers have obtained measures of individual performance, such as speed, accuracy, and time needed to learn, and have used these to estimate individual productivity. The study explored the motivational value of external rewards as they relate to increasing productivity. Productivity productivity is defined as the efficient use of resources labour, capital, materials, energy, information, in the production of goods and services. In this paper, we test directly for whether the strength of a groupbased incentive a teacher faces a. According to tangen 2002, the concept of productivity has been a subject of enquiry among intellectuals since over two centuries before now and has been applied in many different. A study using north carolina high school data estimates the effect of early. But for the act of teaching theres a limit to teacher productivity. An alternative method of avoiding selection bias is to either randomly assign teachers to students as in the tennessee class size experiment or to exploit situations where there is an exogenous change in. Also, it can serve other researchers who want to reinvestigate the lack of teamwork concepts in today.
It is good that now a days attitude of students is given importance. By offering the students the choice to do less, they actually received more homework than in the past, especially since the students. Read measurement and interpretation of productivity at. The impact of teamwork on work performance of employees. There is a point at which teacher productivity when being applied directly to the act of teaching rather than everything surrounding the act of teaching reaches diminishing returns. Applying student learning gains to a faculty incentivereward program. Discussion of education for sustainable development. The teachers and the learners know how to use the resources appropriately and the teacher must have some basic knowledge about the selection and evaluation of instructional materials. Labour productivity lp defined as the ratio of a measure of output quantity to some measure of the quantity of labour used, such as total hours worked. Based on feedback from you, our users, weve made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website. Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the output volume and the volume of inputs.
Teachers in one school gave a certain number of problems for homework but said to the students, its your choice. A discussion of education for sustainable development, its origins, the challenges and barriers to reorienting education systems to address sustainability, the importance of public participation and managing change. To increase productivity means to produce more with less. To find out the extent teacher s personnel management operational framework determines of teachers productivity in secondary schools in delta state, nigeria. Productivity in organizations the national academies press. Wed like to understand how you use our websites in order to improve them. This purpose is further expressed into the following specific objectives.