Featured Application The herein survey is among the first research efforts to synthesize the
intelligent models and paradigms applied in education to predict the attainment of student …

This study provides a systematic review of the literature on teachers' cognitive abilities
(intelligence test scores and proxies of cognitive abilities such as college entrance exam …

Highlights•Broadened views of teacher competence were proposed enriching cognitive
approaches.•Broadened competence approaches span from disposition to performance of …

Abstract “If you work hard you will learn interesting facts”.“Unless you work hard you will get
into trouble”. These are examples of engaging messages teachers use to encourage …

The present study explores how multiple teacher characteristics (ie, knowledge, beliefs, self-
efficacy, and self-regulation) co-occur within 649 German teacher candidates at the end of …

In research on teaching, there is a tension between the intention to provide educational
practice with clear and convertible recommendations and the wish to do justice to the whole …

Bandura's influential theory has been used to argue that teachers with high self-efficacy will
be more effective at increasing pupil achievement—and a voluminous empirical literature …

Research suggests teachers' observable characteristics are inequitably distributed across
schools, leaving minoritized students with less exposure to experienced and credentialed …

Scholars have long argued that individuals' beliefs influence their behaviors and the
decisions they make throughout their lives. Focusing on beliefs as a cognitive construct, the …

The importance of having a highly qualified teacher in every classroom is an educational
necessity. Determining which teacher characteristics define teacher quality and measuring …