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This 3 page paper analyzes to peer reviewed articles from Educational Journals in the area of professionalism and methods of research as they apply to teacher effectiveness. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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theories and applications which appear in various related fields. This paper aims to analyze two journal articles in which the process of teaching is analyzed and examined for potential applications
in the classroom and to the larger ramifications on teaching as a profession. Jirovec, R; Ramanathan, C; Alvarez, A. "What are Social Work Students Telling Us About Teaching Effectiveness?"
Journal of Social Work Education Spring 1998, pg. 229:8 This article was produced after an exhaustive empirical study of the responses received from social work students course evaluations of
their professors teaching ability. The researchers came to two conclusions. First, course evaluations were a legitimate form of sampling, and secondly, there was a strong correlation between a teachers organizational
skills and the effectiveness of the teacher as perceived by the students. The authors present the facts that the question of student evaluations has been raised before, and tested before.
The conclusions from those studies resulted in a negative scoring for the evaluations. So, one has to be curious as to what the current researchers based their information on. One
of the answers is that they utilized a narrower focus than previous studies. This was primarily an empirical study as such, and included compilations of evaluations over a two year
time period. The variables, as such, were the teachers, themselves. The study pointed out the need and the purpose clearly as they proposed to address those gaps in the
previous tests that had not been taken into consideration such as non-traditional students, multicultural differences and class size, to name a few. The sample was taken from "316 Social work
classes between the years of 1991-1993 from Wayne State University in Detroit" and "were nontraditional, racially and ethnically diverse; many were commuting, working, and raising families"(Jirovec, et al 1998).
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