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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
Download full textMatsumura, Lindsay Clare – 2003
This report describes 4 years of research by the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) on developing indicators of classroom practice that have the potential to be used in large-scale settings and that draw attention to important aspects of standards-based learning and instruction. CRESSTs method was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen E.; Pascal, Jenny; Valdes, Rosa – 2002
This report describes the technical quality of a measure of the quality of classroom assignments piloted in the Los Angeles Unified School District's proposed new accountability system. The measure was developed by the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST). For the study, 181 teachers were sampled from 35…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Assignments, Educational Quality
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
Matsumura, 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
Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Gallimore, Ronald – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2005
Research indicates that the quality of classroom assignments makes a difference in student learning. Moreover, assignment quality varies between teachers even within the same school and there is room for improvement in many of the assignments that teachers provide to students. Assignment quality, as described in this book, puts into practice…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Educational Quality, Educational Research
