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Mason, Sarah; Hunt, Ashley – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
To progress as a field, evaluators must be able to describe their work to nonevaluators, and to persuade an audience they have something unique and valuable to offer. Yet anecdotal reports suggest many evaluators have difficulty describing their work. Through 42 interviews with practicing evaluators, we aimed to better understand evaluators'…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Occupational Information, Professional Identity, Role Perception
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Burns, Rebecca West; Baker, Wendy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Teacher education is entering an exciting era for professional development schools (PDS). Recent reform efforts have called for increased school-university partnerships (AACTE, 2010; NCATE, 2010), which means that the PDS community may be well poised to offer insight into the necessary boundary-spanning roles and structures needed to support…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Teacher Education, Classification, Partnerships in Education
Prezyna, Dolores Marie; Garrison, Mark J.; Lockte, Hilary A.; Gold, Carol P. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2017
This study investigates how the role of the reading specialist (RS) is defined and communicated by principals, and examines to what degree a common understanding of this role exists among teachers, building administrators and reading specialists. The principal's responsibility in defining and communicating role, and the effect these efforts have…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Role, Reading Consultants, Elementary Schools