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EDUCATION INDICATORS: An International Perspective


Indicator 22: Teaching Experience

On-the-job experience provides teachers with practical opportunities in which to build their expertise in teaching and classroom management. Further, average years of teaching experience are an indication of teachers' maturity and their long-term commitment to education. All of these factors can play a role in the provision of high-quality instruction.


Table 22: Average years of teaching experience for teachers
of 9- and 14-year-olds,1 by country: school year 1991-92

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			Country	Age 9	 Age 14
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G-72		
France			21 (0.75)	19 (0.72)
Italy			22 (0.74)	19 (0.54)
West Germany (former)	20 (0.68)	17 (0.54)
United States		15 (0.52)	14 (0.66)
Other
Belgium			18 (0.69)	20 (0.74)
Botswana		   - -		11 (0.49)
Cyprus			17 (0.70)	18 (0.47)
Denmark			18 (0.52)	18 (0.55)
Finland			15 (1.35)	15 (1.13)
			
Greece			13 (0.73)	12 (0.53)
Hong Kong		16 (0.86)	10 (0.74)
Hungary			17 (0.90)	17 (0.84)
Iceland			12 (0.53)	15 (0.67)
Indonesia		12 (0.58)	   - -
			
Ireland			19 (0.99)	17 (0.71)
Netherlands		17 (0.70)	17 (0.65)
New Zealand		14 (0.73)	13 (0.77)
Norway			16 (0.62)	18 (0.74)
Philippines		  - -		11 (0.53)
			
Portugal                23 (0.76)        9 (0.57)
Singapore		19 (0.79)	14 (0.91)
Slovenia		19 (0.80)	16 (0.68)
Spain			18 (0.50)	18 (0.50)
Sweden			21 (0.60)	17 (0.78)
			
Switzerland		14 (0.67)	18 (0.55)
Thailand		   - -		14 (0.56)
Trinidad and Tobago	17 (0.62)	15 (0.69)
Venezuela		12 (0.63)	12 (0.63)
Zimbabwe                   - -           6 (0.58)
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-Not available.
1/ Standard errors are in parentheses.
2/ No data available for Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

NOTE: See supplemental note to Indicator 22 for details on indicator calculation for Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Singapore,
Spain, and Venezuela.

SOURCE: The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, IEA Reading Literacy Study, unpublished tabulations, 1992.


Figure 22: Average years of teaching experience for teachers of 9- and 14-year-olds, by G-7 country:1,2 school year 1991-92

Figure 22


1/ No data available for Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
2/ Countries are sorted in descending order by the average years of teaching experience.

SOURCE: The International Association for the Evaluation Achievement, IEA Reading Literacy Study, unpublished tabluations, 1992.

Notes on Figures and Tables

In some cases, countries limited assessments to particular geographic areas or language groups. A description of these limitations follows.

Belgium, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela

See supplemental notes for Indicator 7.

Denmark

All Danish-speaking schools.

Indonesia

All schools in seven provinces where 75 percent of the population lives.

Singapore

Nongovernment schools were excluded.


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