RT Journal Article
T1 Balancing Teachers’ Math Satisfaction and Other Indicators of the Education System’s Performance.
A1 Marcenaro-Gutiérrez, Óscar David
A1 Luque-Gallego, Mariano
K1 Profesores - Satisfacción en el trabajo
K1 Rendimiento académico
AB We investigate the potential balance between some teacher characteristics,particularly teachers’ satisfaction and different measures of pupils’ performance (averagestudents’ test scores and percentage of students achieving basic standards of learning inmathematics), in order to optimize the outputs of the Spanish education system. Ourcontribution to the existing literature is twofold: on the one side, we provide estimates onthe balance between teachers’ effectiveness and fourth grade students’ performance inSpain, by using recent survey data from the program on Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study; on the other side, we implement a novel methodology whichallows optimizing simultaneously a set of indicators of the educational system outputs, tothe extent that our empirical approach revealed the existence of some degree of conflictamong the outputs under scrutiny. These analyses provide empirical evidence of theimportance of simultaneously analysing different indicators of the performance of theeducation system and the need to invest in teachers’ satisfaction as a motivation mechanism for improving national educational achievement, at least in primary education.Additionally they bring attention into the harmful impact of some education policy measures taken as a consequence of the economic crisis, as, e.g. the delay in the replacement ofteachers, which entails the lack of teachers at schools to cover all lessons.
PB Springer
YR 2015
FD 2015-10-25
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39380
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39380
LA eng
NO Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O.D., Luque, M. & Lopez-Agudo, L.A. Balancing Teachers’ Math Satisfaction and Other Indicators of the Education System’s Performance. Soc Indic Res 129, 1319–1348 (2016)
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/16633
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026