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Baghurst, Timothy; Tapps, Tyler; Kensinger, Weston – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2015
Goal setting has been shown to improve student performance, motivation, and task completion in academic settings. Although goal setting is utilized by many education professionals to help students set realistic and proper goals, physical educators may not be using goal setting effectively. Without incorporating all three types of goals and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Behavioral Objectives, Achievement Rating, Benchmarking
Grey House Publishing, 2021
Formerly Educators Resource Directory, Educators Resource Guide is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. Educators Resource Guide includes associations, publications, trade…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Associations
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Martin, Caryl; Horton, Mel L.; Tarr, Susan J. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2015
This article focuses on the development of assessment tools to enhance the acquisition of the grade-level outcomes developed in the K-12 curriculum. Physical education is one of the few educational programs that does not have a multitude of available state and national tests to measure student progress. This distinction has been both a strength…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Construction, Student Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Grey House Publishing, 2019
Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," "Educators Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Associations
Johnston, Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2012
Surprisingly, the debate over +/- grade systems seems to occur, largely, at the college and university level. Few middle and high schools seem to have taken on the issue, at least in any way that appears in the public literature. Other opinions suggest that it is the discriminating quality of plus/minus grading systems that make them useful. A…
Descriptors: Grading, Educational Change, Evaluation Criteria, Goodness of Fit
Grey House Publishing, 2017
Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," Educators "Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Research, Professional Associations, Publications
Grey House Publishing, 2016
This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide. This edition includes profiles on 5,797 school districts in the United States, representing 90%…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Profiles, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
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Ciullo, Stephen; SoRelle, Danielle; Kim, Sun A.; Seo, You-jin; Bryant, Brian R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
This article describes types of progress-monitoring techniques that mathematics interventionists and special education teachers can implement in classrooms to make informed, data-driven decisions about early mathematics intervention. Although educators may be using some of these assessment types already to inform instruction, this article…
Descriptors: Intervention, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Classroom Techniques
Kuehner, Trudy – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2009
This essay summarizes the discussion on how to engage students in the history of innovation that took place at the Wachman Center's two-day history institute for teachers on this subject held October 18-19, 2008. It was observed that hero innovators generally fail multiple times, and suggested that innovation may be fostered by providing a…
Descriptors: Innovation, History Instruction, Learner Engagement, Failure
Pine, Nancy – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
In her groundbreaking book, Educating Young Giants, Nancy Pine reveals how reliance on antiquated teaching methods and ineffectual reform efforts has left youth in the United States and China ill-equipped for the demands of modern technology and the global economy. Transporting us into Chinese elementary and high school classrooms, Pine, a U.S.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
This article reports on Blackboard, a course-management system used by the University of Maryland-Baltimore County to rate and track the "most active instructors" using the university's course-management system. Just about every college has such a system these days, designed to track assignments and manage online class discussions, but…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Courseware, Classification
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Arnold, Connie B.; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1992
Shares a grading system based on a percentage of the total number of points attainable. The system requires students to maintain a personal notebook of their work and informs students of how their grades will be calculated. (MDH)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Beginning Teachers, Evaluation Methods, Grades (Scholastic)
Amundsen, Jane; And Others – 1985
Designed for preschoolers identified as talented by the Bringing Out Head Start Talents (BOHST) project, the small-group lessons contained in this manual focus on nine areas of talent programming and are presented in color-coded sections: creative, intellectual, leadership, art, music, reading, math, science, and psychomotor talent development.…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Activities, Gifted, Individualized Education Programs
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. Center for Instructional Development and Services. – 1989
This Career Merit Achievement Plan (MAP) includes the performance and knowledge competencies required for entry-level employment as a licensed practical nurse. Business and industry representatives have recommended that students in this field master these competencies in order to become employable. An overview provides information on use of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Allied Health Occupations Education, Employment Potential, First Aid
Yoong, Wong Khoon – 1989
This paper provides principles which can be used to mark mathematics papers in secondary schools. Sections included are: (1) "Drafting the Marking Scheme" (describing 15 general considerations); (2) "Calculations" (listing 16 grading principles on computation papers); (3) "Graphs" (providing four guidelines on graph papers); (4) "Constructions"…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Computation, Educational Testing, Grading
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