Since the understanding of non-cognitive skills and their importance have grown, it becomes more ... more Since the understanding of non-cognitive skills and their importance have grown, it becomes more and more significant to measure their impact on different areas of professional life. It has been researched that not only individual teacher’s professional self-efficacy, but also collective self-efficacy has a significant impact on both the teachers’ self-efficacy and students’ achievement. The purpose of this study is to select a set of factors that correlate with teachers’ professional self-efficacy and to analyse if teachers’ professional self-efficacy has an impact on teachers’ cooperation with colleagues and students. Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish data from the OECD TALIS 2018 teacher questionnaires were used. o analyse which factors correlate with teachers’ professional self-efficacy, the authors of this article selected such variables as the type of school, the type of urbanization, the number of special education students in the class, f...
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022
In 2021 a new Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas came into force in the Republ... more In 2021 a new Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas came into force in the Republic of Latvia. To reduce fragmentation, the number of municipalities and State cities was reduced from 119 to 43. There were no changes in 11 local governments, however, other new structures were formed by merging two to eight local governments. On the one hand, these changes are creating new challenges in the education process and institution management, but on the other hand – larger local governments with larger numbers of schools and students opens up new opportunities. One of the opportunity is to make a more accurate assessment of student achievement, which characterizes the performance of a local government’s educational institutions. The aim of this article is to show that despite the great differences between local governments (e. g. population differences from 3 to 614 thousand) it is possible to assess the quality of education in local governments by using data from state exami...
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022
The prolonged pandemic situation that left its damaging footprints not only in global economy but... more The prolonged pandemic situation that left its damaging footprints not only in global economy but in many families, struggling with options to maintain their pre-pandemic income levels and social status, has raised the issue about the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) on child’s personality, especially self-beliefs. It has been previously studied that SES has a significant impact on child’s academic achievement. Inherited social status has been the subject of studies for many years, and some researchers argue that it is rooted in the child’s self-beliefs. The aim of this article is to examine the impact of family SES factors. The research question for this study is as follows: does family SES impact significantly primary school students’ academic self-beliefs? To evaluate the significance of factor impact, the authors used linear regression models where the dependent variable was students’ self-beliefs, but family SES and students’ achievement were the independent variable...
Available from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLEMinistry of Educatio... more Available from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLEMinistry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)LVLatvi
This paper examines teachers' satisfaction with their profession and work environment in rela... more This paper examines teachers' satisfaction with their profession and work environment in relation to other environmental factors in schools. Latvian data from the OECD TALIS 2013 study are used in the data analysis. The aim of the study was to find out whether there is any relationship between teacher satisfaction with their work environment and profession and a variety of variables characterizing schools and students. The research question is: what are the most important factors associated with teachers' satisfaction with their job at school? Applied research methods are frequency analysis and measures of central tendency. The results of the research reveal that overall Latvian teachers are satisfied with their work environment, and teachers' job satisfaction is most influenced by positive and democratic school culture.
The task of research was to find out if the TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) tests... more The task of research was to find out if the TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) tests could be used to compare the average achievements of schools at regional level. All eight-formers of the Valmiera (Latvia) region participated in the investigation. The study showed than on average, the achievements of the schoolchildren of the Valmiera region are more considerable than those at national level in general. Moreover, the representatives of the city site rather than the participants of the rural area were more successful in the Valmiera region as well as throughout the country. However, analysis indicates that some schools of the rural area have achieved impressive results while knowledge of a number of the learners of the city remains rather poor. The data is important to education leaders of the region because school situation and the results of this research can help to carry out the assessment of every school. The obtained information regarding pupils’ performance in e...
Since the understanding of non-cognitive skills and their importance have grown, it becomes more ... more Since the understanding of non-cognitive skills and their importance have grown, it becomes more and more significant to measure their impact on different areas of professional life. It has been researched that not only individual teacher’s professional self-efficacy, but also collective self-efficacy has a significant impact on both the teachers’ self-efficacy and students’ achievement. The purpose of this study is to select a set of factors that correlate with teachers’ professional self-efficacy and to analyse if teachers’ professional self-efficacy has an impact on teachers’ cooperation with colleagues and students. Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish data from the OECD TALIS 2018 teacher questionnaires were used. o analyse which factors correlate with teachers’ professional self-efficacy, the authors of this article selected such variables as the type of school, the type of urbanization, the number of special education students in the class, f...
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022
In 2021 a new Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas came into force in the Republ... more In 2021 a new Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas came into force in the Republic of Latvia. To reduce fragmentation, the number of municipalities and State cities was reduced from 119 to 43. There were no changes in 11 local governments, however, other new structures were formed by merging two to eight local governments. On the one hand, these changes are creating new challenges in the education process and institution management, but on the other hand – larger local governments with larger numbers of schools and students opens up new opportunities. One of the opportunity is to make a more accurate assessment of student achievement, which characterizes the performance of a local government’s educational institutions. The aim of this article is to show that despite the great differences between local governments (e. g. population differences from 3 to 614 thousand) it is possible to assess the quality of education in local governments by using data from state exami...
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022
The prolonged pandemic situation that left its damaging footprints not only in global economy but... more The prolonged pandemic situation that left its damaging footprints not only in global economy but in many families, struggling with options to maintain their pre-pandemic income levels and social status, has raised the issue about the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) on child’s personality, especially self-beliefs. It has been previously studied that SES has a significant impact on child’s academic achievement. Inherited social status has been the subject of studies for many years, and some researchers argue that it is rooted in the child’s self-beliefs. The aim of this article is to examine the impact of family SES factors. The research question for this study is as follows: does family SES impact significantly primary school students’ academic self-beliefs? To evaluate the significance of factor impact, the authors used linear regression models where the dependent variable was students’ self-beliefs, but family SES and students’ achievement were the independent variable...
Available from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLEMinistry of Educatio... more Available from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLEMinistry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)LVLatvi
This paper examines teachers' satisfaction with their profession and work environment in rela... more This paper examines teachers' satisfaction with their profession and work environment in relation to other environmental factors in schools. Latvian data from the OECD TALIS 2013 study are used in the data analysis. The aim of the study was to find out whether there is any relationship between teacher satisfaction with their work environment and profession and a variety of variables characterizing schools and students. The research question is: what are the most important factors associated with teachers' satisfaction with their job at school? Applied research methods are frequency analysis and measures of central tendency. The results of the research reveal that overall Latvian teachers are satisfied with their work environment, and teachers' job satisfaction is most influenced by positive and democratic school culture.
The task of research was to find out if the TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) tests... more The task of research was to find out if the TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) tests could be used to compare the average achievements of schools at regional level. All eight-formers of the Valmiera (Latvia) region participated in the investigation. The study showed than on average, the achievements of the schoolchildren of the Valmiera region are more considerable than those at national level in general. Moreover, the representatives of the city site rather than the participants of the rural area were more successful in the Valmiera region as well as throughout the country. However, analysis indicates that some schools of the rural area have achieved impressive results while knowledge of a number of the learners of the city remains rather poor. The data is important to education leaders of the region because school situation and the results of this research can help to carry out the assessment of every school. The obtained information regarding pupils’ performance in e...
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