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Direct linkMatsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen E.; Slater, Sharon Cadman; Boston, Melissa D. – Educational Assessment, 2008
This study explores two approaches to directly measuring the quality of instruction: teachers' assignments with student work and focused lesson observations. The technical quality and potential feasibility of these approaches for measuring instruction in large numbers of classrooms are compared within two different content areas (reading…
Descriptors: Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen; Pascal, Jenny; Valdes, Rosa – Educational Assessment, 2002
This article reports the technical quality of a measure describing the quality of classroom assignments piloted in the Los Angeles Unified School District's proposed new accountability system. For this study, 181 teachers were sampled from 35 schools selected at random. Participating teachers submitted three language arts assignments with samples…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Assignments
Download full textMatsumura, Lindsay Clare; Slater, Sharon Cadman; Junker, Brian; Peterson, Maureen; Boston, Melissa; Steele, Michael; Resnick, Lauren – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
The quality of reading comprehension and mathematics instruction was explored in five urban middle schools using the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) toolkit (N = 34 teachers). The IQA is comprised of protocols for rating observed instruction and the quality of teachers' assignments with student work. The purpose of this research was to…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Validity
Wills, Linda – 1990
For this practicum, a program of multimedia peer dramatic presentations was developed to improve the vocabulary skills of middle school students. Each week for 10 weeks a target group of 18 randomly selected students viewed 5 short video skits (produced by broadcast arts students) which were designed to introduce and define new vocabulary terms;…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes
