Effective Teaching Around the World: Theoretical, Empirical, Methodological and Practical Insights

This open-access book discusses effective teaching behavior from international perspectives, focusing on conceptualization, measurement, differences, and importance to student outcomes. It draws from diverse cultures and educational systems, highlighting the need for uniform frameworks and measures while addressing limitations. It explores promising ways to measure and compare effective teaching behavior from CTT and IRT perspectives, emphasizing the systematic complexity of effective teaching behavior. The book examines interrelated domains, including differentiation, and explores similarities and differences across countries, building on cultural traditions reflected in classroom processes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 799 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book brings together theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practical insights from various countries on effective teaching. It particularly focuses on discussing issues pertaining to effective teaching behavior, including definitions and conceptualizations, measurement, differences, and importance to student outcomes from international perspectives. The book will draw upon the rich cultures with diverse contexts involving Asia, Australia, Africa, America, and Europe, which serve as the background setting to better understand teaching quality from a wide spectrum of educational systems and performances. It shows that effective teaching behavior can be conceptualized and operationalized uniformly using specific frameworks and measures, but also addresses some limitations that should be tackled.

The book discusses promising ways to measure and compare effective teaching behavior from classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) perspectives. It indicates that effective teaching behavior in diverse countries follows a systematic level of complexity, which provides an avenue for ongoing teacher education and teacher professional development. It discusses the interrelated domains of effective teaching behavior, including contemporary trends of differentiation.

The book continues with examining similarities and differences in effective teaching behavior across countries. It builds on the understanding of cultural traditions across countries as profoundly reflected in the classroom processes.

Weight: 1449g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031316807
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023