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Neuschel, Kristen; Rego, Márcia – Liberal Education, 2018
In this article, the authors report on the results of a three-year study they conducted on assessment practices in general education courses at Duke University as part of a three-institution (Duke, the University of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska) research project funded by the Spencer Foundation. At all three institutions, researchers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, General Education, Evaluation Methods, Individual Characteristics
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Byrd, A. Preston; Vincent, Stacy K.; Mazur, Joan; Namkoong, Kang – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
This examination of secondary agricultural education students' performance was used to determine if students could perform up to industry standards. In this study, the industry standard were blueprints created by engineers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Students had to fabricate a Cost-effective Roll-Over Protective…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Secondary School Students, Agricultural Education, Industry
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Giersch, Jason; Bottia, Martha Cecilia; Stearns, Elizabeth; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Moller, Stephanie – Educational Policy, 2021
The adoption of market theory as a guiding principle of education policy increased the need for assessments of school performance that families could use to compare academic benefits of attending one school to another. Prominent among measures used by states are the school proficiency and growth indicators resulting from high-stakes tests. Using a…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, College Bound Students
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Song, Borim; Lim, Kyungeun; Kwon, Hyunji – Art Education, 2021
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, which requires the majority of K-16 education to be temporarily taught online. While unfamiliarity with digital technologies may make the transition to online teaching difficult, the world's sudden dependence on distance learning has sparked the pressing need to implement virtual art education that is efficient and…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, College Faculty
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Koedel, Cory; Miller, Luke C.; Xu, Zeyu – Grantee Submission, 2017
Policies that require the use of information about student achievement to evaluate teacher performance are becoming increasingly common across the United States, but there is some question as to how or whether to use student test-based teacher evaluations when student assessments change. We bring empirical evidence to bear on this issue.…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests
Lam D. Pham; Gage F. Matthews; Timothy A. Drake – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
While multiple studies have examined the impact of school turnaround, less is known about reforms under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). To advance this literature, we examine North Carolina's Restart (NCR) model. NCR aligns with ESSA by giving school leaders increased flexibility. Also, NCR differs from previous turnaround models by…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, School Turnaround, Educational Change
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Bloom, J. Dara; Yao, Julia; Edwards, Harriett – Journal of Extension, 2021
This article describes the curriculum and program development process that was used to create the North Carolina Extension Master Food Volunteer program. We used a rigorous program development process, including conducting a needs assessment, piloting and evaluating the program, incorporating revisions based on feedback, and receiving external…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Program Development, Food, Volunteers
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Suja P. Davis; Rebecca Kitzmiller – International Journal on E-Learning, 2024
While online learning holds many benefits for graduate students, lack of student interaction often found in asynchronous content delivery may negatively impact student engagement. This study examined student perceptions of online lecture-embedded interactive activities that promoted student active engagement through quizzes and gamification. From…
Descriptors: Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Graduate Students
Lambert, Richard G. – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2018
This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterion referenced classroom resource for teachers. As a formative assessment, the KEA focuses on the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Formative Evaluation
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Peuler, Mollie; Coltrain, Mark – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2020
Appalachian State University's First Year Seminar Online Library Component is a set of information literacy modules designed to introduce students to university-level research. Originally deployed in 2015, this is a requirement for the University's First Year Seminar Program. It is composed of original and OER content, delivered through AppState's…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, First Year Seminars, Information Literacy, Instructional Design
Goldhaber, Dan; Wolff, Malcolm; Daly, Timothy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Testing students and using test information to hold schools and, in some cases, teachers accountable for student achievement has arguably been the primary national strategy for school improvement over the past decade and a half. Tests are also intended to be used as a diagnostic tool to identify individual student needs, so that students can be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Evaluation, Testing, Scores
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Johanna R. Price; Karena Cooper-Duffy; Billy T. Ogletree; Jonathan M. Campbell; Amy J. Rose; Machelle Cathey; Kong Chen – School Psychology, 2024
Project INTERprofessional Autism Collaborative Training (INTERACT) is an interprofessional education program designed to prepare graduate students in psychology, special education, and speech-language pathology to work with autistic children with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. The rising prevalence of autism, coupled with increased…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Interprofessional Relationship, Graduate Study
Weisenfeld, G. G. – Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, 2017
A growing number of states are interested in tracking the readiness of children entering kindergarten. In 2010, just seven states (Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, and Vermont) collected Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA) data for the purposes of aggregating data at the state level. Since this time, most states report…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Student Evaluation, Barriers
Patricia Horton-Albritton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The names of the participants and the school district used in this program evaluation are pseudonyms to protect the participant's identity. This program evaluation was from the perceptions of the parent/guardian and faculty of the Garnett County School District (GCSD) K-8 Alternative Learning Program. The study focused on the middle school…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Evaluation, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Idris, Mussa; Dahal, Leena – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2021
The authors of this perspectives-based paper analyze the research process and results of an undergraduate research (UR) partnership that involved both of us -- an undergraduate student and a faculty member with international backgrounds--, a local non-profit organization in North Carolina that connected the authors with research participants who…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Mentors, Undergraduate Students
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