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Sarah E. Woofter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the ongoing issue of teachers with chronic absenteeism particularly as it relates to vulnerable student populations. For the purposes of this research, chronic absenteeism is defined as missing 10 or more instructional days. The problem is the effect that chronic teacher absenteeism has on vulnerable…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, English Learners
Edmunds, Julie A.; Arshavsky, Nina; Coyle, Victoria; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Gicheva, Dora; Lewis, Karla; Williams, Melissa; Rosof, Laura; Henson, Bob – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2022
Project EQuIPD--Engaging Quality Instruction through Professional Development--sought to establish and test for efficacy a professional development model to produce highly qualified teachers in STEM practices for all children, especially for students who are in traditionally underserved schools and districts within the State of Florida. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Models, STEM Education, Teacher Education
Edmunds, Julie; Arshavsky, Nina; Coyle, Victoria; Hutchins, Bryan; Lewis, Karla; Williams, Melissa; Rosof, Laura; Gicheva, Dora; Henson, Bob – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2022
This report represents the final results of an evaluation of Project EQuIPD--Engaging Quality Instruction through Professional Development. The project provided two years of intensive professional development to help teachers learn to think more strategically about how to improve student outcomes using technology-based inquiry instruction. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Outcomes of Education
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Grissom, Jason A.; Loeb, Susanna; Nakashima, Nathaniel A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
Despite claims that school districts need flexibility in teacher assignment to allocate teachers more equitably across schools and improve district performance, the power to involuntarily transfer teachers across schools remains hotly contested. Little research has examined involuntary teacher transfer policies or their effects on schools,…
Descriptors: Teacher Transfer, Transfer Policy, Teacher Competencies, School Effectiveness
Bedasse, Marcia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Federal and state legislation focused on closing the achievement gap, have placed emphasis on providing students with teachers who display specific characteristics. While this has been the mandate, many schools still fail to close the achievement gap and research linking specific teacher characteristics with student achievement, validates the…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement, State Standards, Federal Legislation
Reform Support Network, 2015
Over the past decade, national initiatives have shifted States' attention to the challenge of turning around low-performing schools. The lack of consistent, dramatic improvements in the lowest-performing schools reflects the severity of the school turnaround challenge, but also suggests the need to continuously evaluate and refine turnaround…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, State Departments of Education
Kumar, Sudipti; Waymack, Nancy – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014
At the request of the Urban League of Miami, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) analyzed the distribution of teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In this paper, the authors examine teacher-level data to determine whether indicators correlated with teacher quality vary across the district based on socioeconomic differences, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Placement, Correlation, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2007
Recent research has demonstrated that students with normal hearing ability benefit from the use of classroom amplification systems. Amplification systems allow teachers to control, stabilize, and equalize the classroom acoustical environment so their voices are clearly audible over background noise at all locations within the classroom. Studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Attendance, Acoustics, Classroom Environment
White, Nancy A. – 1990
An incentive program was developed to reduce teacher absenteeism in a large community high school (2,200 students) in South Florida. The four-point program included improved record-keeping systems, increased communication and information dissemination, internal recognition, and a cash lottery system. Pre- and post-attitudinal tests were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Employee Absenteeism, Incentives