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Direct linkErin Harmeyer; Milagros Nores; Zijia Li; Carmen Espinosa – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
Philadelphia's Preschool Program (PHLpreK) has recently concluded its seventh year, following its initiation after a 2015 referendum approving the creation of a universal pre-K program for children ages 3 and 4. NIEER has been evaluating the program since its inception, focusing on program quality, components, and children's learning and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Forum for Youth Investment, 2024
State Quality Rating Improvement Systems (QRIS) can effectively support the improvement of school-age childcare programs by leveraging Program Quality Assessments (PQAs) alongside structured improvement planning and professional development. Real-world implementations in Arkansas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania underscore the impact and adaptability…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedSolomon, Phyllis; Schultz, Neena; Corcoran, Jacqueline – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
Currently, Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) programs are proliferating, but with limited empirical data to direct planning efforts. To fill this gap in knowledge, this article reports on the findings of an evaluation undertaken on the first DSW of its kind. This evaluation had three components: (1) an environmental scan of DSW programs; (2) a survey…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Program Evaluation, Student Surveys
Justin David Busch – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Online learning at Pennsylvania community colleges increases access to education throughout the commonwealth and delivers programs of local interest to students globally. The academic technology leaders at these institutions find ways to promote and support quality online learning courses and programs, often with few or no additional staff,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Quality, Community Colleges, Online Courses
Vincent D. Harper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the United States, there have been calls for reform to teacher evaluation practices for over 20 years (Reddy et al., 2016). Extant research primarily investigates administrators' perceptions of teacher evaluation process outcomes and there is limited research on teachers' perceptions of the cycle of supervision within the evaluation process.…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers)
Download full textDuffy, Mark; Hartmann, Tracey – Research for Action, 2023
Prior to the pandemic, a survey of Pennsylvania parents found that for every child that was enrolled in an afterschool program, four more would participate if more programs were available. The pandemic has only emphasized the need for out-of-school time (OST) programs as students across Pennsylvania and the country cope with learning loss and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, After School Programs, Investment
Seonmi Do – ProQuest LLC, 2024
University Teaching Experience for Mathematics Prospective Teachers (UTEMPT), an NSF-funded collaborative project, has implemented an innovative version of early field experiences in order to provide preservice mathematics teachers an opportunity to make a meaningful connection between methods-course-content and teaching practices in a college…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Teacher Education Programs
Paul Harwell; Chester Goad; Kristie Orr; Cynthia Curry – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2024
Technology has often been called the "great equalizer" that will bring more opportunity and access with each advancement. That advancement has continued to grow exponentially for decades. Unfortunately, the promise of greater access has not always been fulfilled because digital accessibility for people with disabilities is not guaranteed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality, COVID-19
Cheek, Dennis – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021
The pervasive nature of online learning worldwide necessitates the creation, administration, and improvement of quality assurance mechanisms for higher education institutions. This article delineates a number of principles regarding features of high quality online learning systems and principles related to assessment of student learning, teacher…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Online Courses, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Porterfield, Julie M.; Diaz, Stephanie; Waltz, Rebecca Miller – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2020
Funded by the Association of College & Research Libraries through a 2018 Academic Library Impact Research Grant, the Activating Library Classrooms: Evaluating Formal Learning Spaces for Active Learning and Student Engagement project endeavored to evaluate the design and use of formal learning spaces situated within Penn State University…
Descriptors: State Universities, Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Educational Facilities Design
Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Potvin, Ashley Seidel; Miller, Emily Adah; Kuck, Rachel; Berland, Leema Kuhn; Boardman, Alison G.; Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider; Clark, Tiffany Lee; Cheng, Britte Haugan – Education Sciences, 2022
This paper explores enabling conditions for scaling high-quality project-based learning (PBL) to understand factors that influence how PBL spreads, whether and how it can be sustained and the extent to which it informs meaningful change in schools. We report on a year-long collaboration across three research projects. Each project team analyzed…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Educational Quality, Program Implementation
Allen, Patricia J.; Brown, Zoe; Noam, Gil G. – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2020
An innovative system-building initiative known as the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice (SLECoP) is transforming U.S. STEM education through cross-sector partnerships between schools, afterschool and summer programs, libraries, museums, and businesses, among others. Although logic models exist to describe how SLEs can make positive…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learning Processes, Ecology, Communities of Practice
Baker, Bruce D.; Cotto, Robert, Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
An analysis of school district spending across the U.S. reveals 66 districts where the students face much greater needs than in surrounding districts (i.e., child poverty is more than 20% higher) but where per-pupil spending is less than 90% of the region's average. This not only means that they have less money to spend on children who require…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Hispanic American Students
Thomas, Aaron Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Providing high-quality professional learning opportunities for teaching staff is a key responsibility for school leaders that can lead to increased teacher capacity and higher student outcomes. Instructional coaching is a professional development model that has gained in popularity over the past decade. An instructional coach is an individual who…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness, Qualitative Research
