What Do We Know about Teaching Effectiveness

Abstract

In an update of his seminal work, The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching, Mr* Gage discusses the growth of the bodies of fairly well-confirmed about teaching and its effects on student achievement? There is a scientific basis that can inform our knowledge of the teaching process, he says; we have only to act on it to begin to affect practice* TEACHING IS the central process in education. It comes after eco nomic resources, physical facili ties, and curriculum have been determined, and it is intended to lead to ward learning. It is the social function through which societies foster achieve