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Makuwa, Demus K.; Maarse, Jan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article highlights the rationale for Namibia's participation in three studies which were conducted under the auspices of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) during the period 1995-2007. The article provides some of the innovative ways in which the results of the first (SACMEQ I, 1995) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Braun, Henry – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The focus article "Road Maps for Learning: A Guide to the Navigation of Learning Progressions" by Black, Wilson, and Yao (this issue) is a veritable tour-de-force, covering a great deal of education ground while spanning the heights from models of the interplay among curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment to interpretations of student…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Change, Consortia, Accountability
Briggs, Derek C. – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, 2011
There is often confusion about distinctions between growth models and value-added models. The first half of this paper attempts to dispel some of these confusions by clarifying terminology and illustrating by example how the results from a large-scale assessment can and will be used to make inferences about student growth and the value-added…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Language Usage, Measurement, Inferences
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Bacharach, Nancy; Heck, Teresa Washut – Educational Renaissance, 2012
The goal of this project is to reform teacher preparation through the implementation of a research-based model of co-teaching in student teaching at teacher preparation institutions across the country. Four years of research conducted on a co-teaching model of student teaching has demonstrated a statistically significant increase in academic…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Student Teaching, Models, Teacher Education Programs