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Lunsford, Amanda; Warner, Wendy J.; Park, Travis D.; Morgan, Joy E. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2016
The edTPA has recently emerged within the past few years as an innovative Teacher Performance Assessment and is currently adopted to some extent in 34 states. Researchers conducted four focus groups with 16 teacher candidates during and immediately after completion of the edTPA at North Carolina State University. When asked to articulate about…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Performance Based Assessment, Focus Groups, Preservice Teachers
Fuller, Charles Avery – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year the North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) mandated the use of the North Carolina Teacher Evaluation Process (Evaluation Process) for use in all public school systems in the state to conduct teacher observations and evaluations. The Evaluation Process replaced the Teacher Performance Appraisal…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Principals, Teacher Evaluation, State Standards
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McDiarmid, G. Williamson – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: Written from the prospective of a school of education dean, the article describes how deans worked with researchers and university system staff to develop multiple measures of teacher preparation program (TPP) quality. Design/Approach/Methods: As a key participant in the development of a multi-methods approach to evaluating (TPP) quality,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Improvement, Educational Quality
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Gendle, Mathew H.; Tapler, Amanda – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2022
In this preliminary study, the Global Engagement Survey (GES) was used to assess developmental outcomes in undergraduate students enrolled in a multi-year community-based global learning program. Statistically significant growth was observed on the Civic Efficacy (CE) scale of the GES (p = 0.01). The GES appears to have significant utility in the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education, Global Education, Student Surveys
Gandha, Tysza; Baxter, Andy – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2016
This report offers state leaders key areas for action to continue progress in implementing evaluation systems, even as federal policies on teacher evaluation relax state requirements. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) offers its current best thinking for how state agencies can make the smartest use of funds, time and partners to refine…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Action, Teacher Effectiveness, State Agencies
Costner, Ashley Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2016
School psychologists are faced with the task of conducting evaluations of students in order to determine special education eligibility. This often equates to administering a cognitive assessment measure to obtain information about skills or abilities. Although this may be a straightforward task when working with children of average or higher…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Disability, School Psychologists, Counselor Attitudes
Goldstein, Amy D. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2020
This brief is part of a broad landscape analysis focused on policy and practice issues related to the recognition of prior learning. The landscape analysis focuses on issues arising in the practice of the recognition of prior learning, policies that encourage or limit its adoption, and key research needs and future directions for the field. The…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, College Students
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Dempsey, Terri L. – RTI International, 2018
Attention to mixed methods studies research has increased in recent years, particularly among funding agencies that increasingly require a mixed methods approach for program evaluation. At the same time, researchers operating within large-scale, rapid-turnaround research projects are faced with the reality that collection and analysis of large…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mixed Methods Research, High Schools, Educational Research
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Rivera, Christopher J.; McKissick, Bethany; Adams, Madison – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2020
Forty-one states and 928 teacher preparation programs across the United States are using the Teaching Performance Assessment (edTPA) as an evaluation tool to determine teacher readiness and/or meet licensure requirements. Nationwide, pre-service special education teachers struggle to demonstrate proficiency in specific areas of the edTPA (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Special Education, Preservice Teachers, Practicums
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Hippensteel, Scott P. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
Reading materials used in undergraduate science classes have not received the same attention in the literature as those used in secondary schools. Additionally, reports critical of college textbooks and their prose are common. To assess both problems and determine the readability of assignments and texts used by geoscience faculty at the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content
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Melissa A. Page; Catherine Snyder; Kathy Dowell – Grantee Submission, 2024
The Lyceum, implemented by Guilford County Schools (GCS), was an arts education program designed to promote arts integration for all GCS students and exposure to Entertainment Arts & Technology for students at Penn-Griffin School for the Arts. The Lyceum impact evaluation used a quasi-experimental design (QED) to examine the effect of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Program Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
Durrance, Samantha – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
Third grade is a critical checkpoint in a child's educational journey. By the end of third grade, children need literacy skills that prepare them for increasing curriculum demands in fourth grade and beyond. Students who are not reading on grade level by this point are significantly more likely to drop out of high school or fail to graduate on…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Taylor, Heather F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The North Carolina (NC) Teacher Evaluation Process (TEP) is used to evaluate Pre-K-12th grade teachers. Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who have obtained Birth-Kindergarten licensure are unique in that they work with children with and without disabilities and their families. Previous research has suggested that teachers may benefit from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Reliability
Reform Support Network, 2015
This publication summarizes the key discussion from experts in the field of measuring student growth during a convening held February 2015. Experts heard about two emerging approaches to measuring growth: Portfolios of student work samples and unit value-added models that provide teachers with timely and actionable feedback that they can use to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness
Bulgakov Cooke, Dina; Paeplow, Colleen; Carter, James; Belton, Timothy R. – Wake County Public School System, 2022
This report focuses on a competency-based grading initiative at Carroll Middle School. The initiative was implemented from 2018-19 to 2020-21 to address the lack of alignment between report card grades and End-of-Grade (EOG) test results and was designed to ensure consistent delivery of standards-based instruction, formative assessment, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Implementation
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