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What teachers believe : mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning (English)

The time teachers spend teaching is low in several developing countries. However, improving teacher effort has proven difficult. Why is it so difficult to increase teacher effort? One possibility is that teachers are resistant to increasing effort because they do not believe their effort is suboptimal. Such beliefs may be based on their mental models on absenteeism, accountability, and student learning. This paper explores this idea using data from...
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Sabarwal,Shwetlena; Abu-Jawdeh,Malek.

What teachers believe : mental models about accountability, absenteeism, and student learning (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8454 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/804301527601436747

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