Barbara Fresko
Biographic Data
| ID | 5180973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Fresko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Fresko |
| SIGNATURE | FRESKO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beit Berl College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5148-8021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elementary school teachers’ and principals’ views regarding components of optimal formative teacher assessment
Challenges of being a graduate teaching assistant
Employing graduate students in undergraduate courses is common practice in higher education. This study focused on the concerns of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to learn how their work performance could be improved. GTAs (N = 158) at a major research university in Israel provided written recommendations for enhancing their work. Thematic analysis revealed 11 categories which were grouped into four main areas of concern: employment condition…
Graduate teaching assistants
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) constitute a valuable and economical teaching force in many higher education undergraduate programmes. However, student satisfaction with their teaching has attracted little attention in the research literature. This study aimed at examining students’ evaluation of teaching of GTAs in discussion groups, as well as exploring the effects of group and GTA variables on these ratings. Data were collected using a que…
Developing narratives as a pedagogical approach to fostering professional interpersonal competences
Socialization of new teachers
Student evaluation of instruction
When intentions and reality clash
Predicting student ratings
This study examined the relationship between student ratings and instructors' predictions of these ratings, taking into account other instructor, student, and course characteristics. Participants in the study were 198 instructors in the School of Education at a major teacher training college in Israel. Data corresponding to one randomly selected course per instructor were collected using student and instructor questionnaires and college records. …
Faculty Views of Student Evaluation of College Teaching
The literature abounds with psychometric studies of course evaluation measures and articles debating the merits of student ratings of instruction, but little research has focused on faculty perceptions of this procedure. In the present study faculty perceptions are explored at a teachers' college where evaluation is carried out annually on a sample of courses. The sample includes 101 instructors who completed the research questionnaire. Faculty a…
Interpreting student ratings
Predicting teacher commitment
Ethnic Similarity, Tutor Expertise, and Tutor Satisfaction in Cross-Age Tutoring
Path analysis was employed to examine the effects of tutor-tutee ethnic similarity, tutor expertise variables, and perceived goal attainment variables on the satisfaction of college student tutors of disadvantaged elementary school children. Hypotheses were based upon theories of job satisfaction, role modeling, and intragroup conflict, as well as upon past research. Data were collected by mailed questionnaires from 425 tutors participating in a …
Assessing teacher needs and satisfaction of needs in inservice activities
Experience, education and the inservice needs of mathematics teachers
The impact of inservice teacher education on mathematics teachers' subject-matter confidence, and competency
Affective changes in socially disadvantaged children as a result of one to one tutoring
Predicting teacher commitment
Socialization of new teachers
When intentions and reality clash
Ethnic Similarity, Tutor Expertise, and Tutor Satisfaction in Cross-Age Tutoring
Path analysis was employed to examine the effects of tutor-tutee ethnic similarity, tutor expertise variables, and perceived goal attainment variables on the satisfaction of college student tutors of disadvantaged elementary school children. Hypotheses were based upon theories of job satisfaction, role modeling, and intragroup conflict, as well as upon past research. Data were collected by mailed questionnaires from 425 tutors participating in a …
Affective changes in socially disadvantaged children as a result of one to one tutoring
The impact of inservice teacher education on mathematics teachers' subject-matter confidence, and competency
Assessing teacher needs and satisfaction of needs in inservice activities
Experience, education and the inservice needs of mathematics teachers
Ethnic Similarity, Tutor Expertise, and Tutor Satisfaction in Cross-Age Tutoring
Path analysis was employed to examine the effects of tutor-tutee ethnic similarity, tutor expertise variables, and perceived goal attainment variables on the satisfaction of college student tutors of disadvantaged elementary school children. Hypotheses were based upon theories of job satisfaction, role modeling, and intragroup conflict, as well as upon past research. Data were collected by mailed questionnaires from 425 tutors participating in a …
Predicting teacher commitment
Interpreting student ratings
Faculty Views of Student Evaluation of College Teaching
The literature abounds with psychometric studies of course evaluation measures and articles debating the merits of student ratings of instruction, but little research has focused on faculty perceptions of this procedure. In the present study faculty perceptions are explored at a teachers' college where evaluation is carried out annually on a sample of courses. The sample includes 101 instructors who completed the research questionnaire. Faculty a…
Predicting student ratings
This study examined the relationship between student ratings and instructors' predictions of these ratings, taking into account other instructor, student, and course characteristics. Participants in the study were 198 instructors in the School of Education at a major teacher training college in Israel. Data corresponding to one randomly selected course per instructor were collected using student and instructor questionnaires and college records. …
Student evaluation of instruction
When intentions and reality clash
Socialization of new teachers
Developing narratives as a pedagogical approach to fostering professional interpersonal competences
Graduate teaching assistants
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) constitute a valuable and economical teaching force in many higher education undergraduate programmes. However, student satisfaction with their teaching has attracted little attention in the research literature. This study aimed at examining students’ evaluation of teaching of GTAs in discussion groups, as well as exploring the effects of group and GTA variables on these ratings. Data were collected using a que…
Challenges of being a graduate teaching assistant
Employing graduate students in undergraduate courses is common practice in higher education. This study focused on the concerns of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to learn how their work performance could be improved. GTAs (N = 158) at a major research university in Israel provided written recommendations for enhancing their work. Thematic analysis revealed 11 categories which were grouped into four main areas of concern: employment condition…
Elementary school teachers’ and principals’ views regarding components of optimal formative teacher assessment
Psychology (16 works) · Mathematics education (15 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (6 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (4 works) · Higher education (4 works)