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Correnti, Richard; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Hamilton, Laura S.; Wang, Elaine – Educational Assessment, 2012
Guided by evidence that teachers contribute to student achievement outcomes, researchers have been reexamining how to study instruction and the classroom opportunities teachers create for students. We describe our experience measuring students' opportunities to develop analytic, text-based writing skills. Utilizing multiple methods of data…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality
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Matsumura, 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