Overview
- Provides an evidence base for teacher selection practices
- Translates robust research into practical application
- Includes case studies illustrating key points
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This book combines theory and research from educational and organizational psychology to provide guidance on improving the teacher selection process and, subsequently, educational outcomes for all students. The book identifies the characteristics of effective teachers, analyzes research on selection practices, and examines new approaches to teacher selection, recruitment, and development. The central premise of the book is that improving the effectiveness of teachers – and, thus, students’ educational outcomes – can be achieved by making the recruitment and selection process more effective and more efficient. Accordingly, the book describes how to identify and select individuals for the teaching profession who display both strong cognitive attributes (e.g., subject knowledge) and essential non-cognitive attributes such as resilience, commitment to the profession, and motivation for teaching.
Key topics
- Teacher selection practices from the viewpoint of organizational and educational psychology
- Teacher effectiveness and the role of individual attributes
- Situational judgment tests (SJTs) and multiple mini-interviews (MMIs) for teacher selection
- Implementation of teacher selection programs
- Teacher recruitment and development
Given its scope, the book represents an essential reference guide for scholars, educational leaders and policymakers, and graduate students in educational leadership programs, as well as professionals in child and school psychology, educational psychology, teaching and teacher education.
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Keywords
- Advances in teacher selection practices
- Cognitive attributes of effective teachers
- Educational psychology and teacher selection
- Improving teacher selection
- Interviews and the teacher selection process
- Noncognitive competencies and teaching effectiveness
- Organizational psychology and teacher selection
- Personality and the teacher selection process
- Personnel and teacher selection
- SJTs for teacher selection
- Situational judgment tests and teacher selection
- Teacher development and effectiveness
- Teacher motivation and effectiveness
- Teacher selection and student achievement
- Teacher selection process
- Teacher training and effectiveness
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Identifying the Characteristics of Effective Teachers
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Selection Methods and Practices: Issues and Uses
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Teacher Selection: Past, Present, and Future
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Robert Klassen is Professor and Chair of the Psychology in Education Research Centre at the University of York, UK, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta in Canada. Klassen’s research focuses on achievement motivation and the factors that lead to teacher effectiveness. His work on the Teacher Selection Project (TSP) was funded by the European Research Council (2015-2021) and conducted in eight countries. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the topics of motivation, teacher selection, and teacher development. He is a Chartered Psychologist in the UK and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Lisa E. Kim is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Psychology in Education at the University of York, UK. She is also a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) in the UK. She received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney, Australia and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York for the Teacher Selection Project, funded by the European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Her research interests lie in understanding what makes a great teacher. Specifically, she investigates the roles, assessment and development of teacher non-cognitive characteristics and teacher effectiveness. She achieves this by using interdisciplinary frameworks, and both quantitative and qualitative methods. For more information, please visit lisaekim.com.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teacher Selection: Evidence-Based Practices
Authors: Robert M. Klassen, Lisa E. Kim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76188-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76186-8Published: 29 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76188-2Published: 28 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 165
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Psychology, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics