Comparing the effects of teacher collaboration on student performance in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore

ABSTRACT

Teacher collaboration is generally believed to relate positively to student performance. Although many researchers have investigated the influence of teacher collaboration on student performance, much of this work is confined to Western educational contexts. This study used data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 to test the influence of teacher collaboration on student performance in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Results of multi-level models suggest that teacher collaboration is not a significant predictor of student performance in those countries. This study contributes to the literature on teacher collaboration by providing counter evidence to the relationship between teacher collaboration and student performance in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

KEYWORDS:

• Teacher collaboration
• multilevel models
• student performance
• international comparison
• PIRLS

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.