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Sullivan, Kate; Barkowski, Elizabeth; Lindsay, Jim; Lazarev, Valeriy; Nguyen, Thanh; Newman, Denis; Lin, Li – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
The Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest Educator Effectiveness Research Alliance expressed interest in investigating annual teacher mobility in Texas. This resulting study, using data from the 2011/12-2015/16 school years, first asked how large teacher mobility was and how much of that movement was between schools in the same district, how…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics
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Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Nguyen, Thanh; Lin, Li; Zacamy, Jenna – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
Federal initiatives and other research have led states across the nation to sharpen their focus on teacher evaluation in recent years. In 2009 a seminal report, "The Widget Effect," from The New Teacher Project revealed that in districts using a binary rating system to evaluate teachers, less than 1 percent of teachers received an…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development
Newman, Denis; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2005
The authors were asked to find out whether "On Our Way to English" ("OWE"), a supplementary, text-based product to help elementary school students learn to read and speak English was more effective in a California and a Texas school district than the materials the districts already had in place. They conducted an experiment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Instructional Materials, Federal Aid, Interviews