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Stewart, Joshua; Rhoads, Christopher; Serdiouk, Marina; Van Dine, Douglas; Cherasaro, Trudy; Klute, Mary – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2019
Historically, students took Algebra I in high school, but there has been a recent trend toward taking it in middle school (Domina, 2014). In the past two decades the proportion of middle school students taking Algebra I or more-advanced math courses has doubled (Domina, 2014). Success in Algebra I is important because it is a gateway course for…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Mathematics, Algebra
Burden, Paul R. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2020
Effective classroom management plans are essential for creating environments that foster appropriate social interactions and engaged learning for students in K-12 settings. New and early-career teachers often face difficulties addressing student discipline, upholding classroom rules and procedures, and establishing positive teacher-student…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Classroom Environment, Student Participation
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Kannan, Priya; Sgammato, Adrienne; Tannenbaum, Richard J. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2015
Establishing cut scores using the Angoff method requires panelists to evaluate every item on a test and make a probability judgment. This can be time-consuming when there are large numbers of items on the test. Previous research using resampling studies suggest that it is possible to recommend stable Angoff-based cut score estimates using a…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Test Items, Standard Setting (Scoring), Feasibility Studies
Starr, Joshua P. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The federal "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) legislation required school districts to ensure that all teachers of core academic subjects met the requirements to be designated highly qualified by July 1, 2006. However, because no Maryland counties were able to comply with the 100 percent highly qualified designation by July 1,…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Counties
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Livingston, Samuel A.; Rupp, Stacie L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
Some previous research results imply that women tend to perform better, relative to men, on constructed-response (CR) tests than on multiple-choice (MC) tests in the same subjects. An analysis of data from several tests used in the licensing of beginning teachers supported this hypothesis, to varying degrees, in most of the tests investigated. The…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Multiple Choice Tests, Beginning Teachers, Hypothesis Testing