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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 The Importance of Selecting the Most Effective Teachers -- 1.1 Strengthening the Teacher Workforce -- 1.2 Teacher Selection is a 'Quick Win' -- 1.3 Why Teacher Selection Matters -- 1.4 The Costs and Benefits of Teacher Selection -- 1.5 Purpose and Overview of the Book -- 1.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part I Identifying the Characteristics of Effective Teachers -- 2 What Does 'Teacher Effectiveness' Look like? -- 2.1 Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.2 Measuring Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.3 Trajectories of Teacher Effectiveness -- 2.4 Teacher Effectiveness and Related Outcomes -- 2.5 Are Effective Teachers Born or Made? -- 2.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- 3 The Role of Individual Attributes in Teacher Selection -- 3.1 Individual Attributes -- 3.2 The Distinction Between Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Attributes -- 3.3 Individual Attributes and Teacher Effectiveness -- 3.4 Research on Attributes Related to Teacher Effectiveness -- 3.5 Inductive, Deductive, and Integrated Approaches -- 3.6 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Which Attributes Are Universal? -- 3.7 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part II Selection Methods and Practices: Issues and Uses -- 4 Issues and Challenges in Selection -- 4.1 Test Quality and Theoretical Models Underpinning Selection -- 4.2 Adverse Impact -- 4.3 Applicants' Perceptions of Selection Procedures -- 4.4 Faking -- 4.5 Coaching Effects -- 4.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- 5 Selection Practices and Methods in Other Fields -- 5.1 Selection Practices in Other Fields -- 5.2 Selection Methods and Their Evidence -- 5.3 What Can We Learn from Selection in Other Fields? -- 5.4 Chapter Summary -- References -- Part III Teacher Selection: Past, Present, and Future -- 6 Teacher Selection: History and Current Practices.

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