@article{5383ccbacdce41c8b58733d423f9835c,
title = "Comparing the effectiveness and costs of different approaches for educating primary school teachers in Sri Lanka",
abstract = "The effectiveness and costs of three approaches to elementary teacher education in Sri Lanka - preservice, conventional inservice, and distance inservice - are examined. The effectiveness of these approaches was measured by teachers' theoretical and applied knowledge, classroom performance, and pupil achievement. Costs borne by the sponsoring institution and the teachers were evaluated. Although distance education was the most cost-effective of the approaches, graduates of colleges of education were significantly effective in producing high achievement in their pupils in mathematics and language. This finding is particularly important given the more difficult teaching situations in which they taught.",
author = "Tatto, {Maria Teresa} and Nielsen, {H. Dean} and William Cummings and Kularatna, {N. G.} and Dharmadasa, {K. H.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research reported in this paper was conducted under the Basic Research and Implementation in Developing Education Systems (BRIDGES) Project. The project was directed by the Harvard University Institute for international Development, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, under cooperative agreement No. DDP-5824-A-5076 with the United States Agency for International Development, Office of Education, Bureau of Science and Technology in collaboration with the National Institute of Education in Sri Lanka, Michigan State University and the Institute for International Research. This paper is a shortened version of a paper published as part of the BRIDGES Research Report Series. Copyright: Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1993",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/0742-051X(93)90014-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "9",
pages = "41--64",
journal = "Teaching and Teacher Education",
issn = "0742-051X",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "1",
}