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Shekinah Svolto Moreira; Brittany Martin-Brand – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States is seeing a widespread teacher shortage. Enrollments in TPPs have declined over the past decades, attrition rates are high, and the COVID-19 pandemic just exacerbated the issue. National and state governments, colleges and universities, and school districts have been looking to strengthen the teacher pipeline by establishing…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Undergraduate Study
Brittany Martin-Brand; Shekinah Svolto Moreira – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States is seeing a widespread teacher shortage. Enrollments in TPPs have declined over the past decades, attrition rates are high, and the COVID-19 pandemic just exacerbated the issue. National and state governments, colleges and universities, and school districts have been looking to strengthen the teacher pipeline by establishing…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Undergraduate Study
Jenna Hussey Glyder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Three major pathways for teacher preparation and certification exist in the United States to recruit and train effective teachers, including traditional, alternative, and teacher residency programs. There is a growing but limited body of research on teacher effectiveness of educators who complete teacher residency programs and the factors of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Interns
Scott-Coleman, Renette S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Studies have shown school districts across the United States strive to meet the needs of first-year teachers by adding various components within a beginning teacher induction program. The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship existed between beginning teacher induction programming and the overall TEAM observation scores of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Correlation, Program Effectiveness
Piche, Cherish Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the study was to measure the relationship between a beginning teacher's scores on the Environment portion of the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) rubric, the number of discipline referrals generated by the teacher, and their students' growth indicated by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS). This…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Classroom Environment, Middle School Students
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Gulosino, Charisse – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
Evaluations of teacher preparation programs (TPPs) based in part on the performance of program completers have emerged as an education reform strategy in several states and have become central features of the Race to the Top (RTTT) grant competition. The objective of this policy review is to examine how the state of Tennessee measured and reported…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2012
Policymakers and education leaders in Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states have been working since 2002 to meet all 12 "Challenge to Lead" Goals for Education. At the same time, SREB states have had to struggle with the toughest economic challenges in decades. Even so, SREB states have succeeded in achieving many of the goals…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Public Schools, Poverty
Sibert, Paula C. – 1989
The relationships among test scores from the American College Testing program test (ACT), the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST), the American College Testing College Outcomes Measures Project test (ACT COMP), the National Teacher Examinations (NTE), final grade point average (GPA) in the major field of study, and overall GPA were studied in 615…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Entrance Examinations, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Bowman, Harry L.; Petry, John R. – 1988
In 1988 a study was conducted to determine the validity of candidate teacher licensure examinations for use in Tennessee under the 1984 Comprehensive Education Reform Act. The Department of Education conducted a study to determine the validity of 11 previously unvalidated or extensively revised tests for certification and to make recommendations…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Ray, John R.; Bowman, Harry L. – 1988
The licensure of public school personnel in Tennessee is a function of the State Department of Education (SDE). Additional requirements for this certification function were added by the Comprehensive Education Reform Act (Senate Bill Number 1) of the 1984 Tennessee General Assembly. The Act mandated that the SDE use tests to assess the competence…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Item Banks