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Jamie L. Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research indicates that teacher performance is a critical focus for school districts, administrators, and teachers. Pre-service teacher preparation, teacher retention, job satisfaction, mentoring, continuous feedback, and onboarding support for new teachers are all factors that influence teacher performance (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Feedback (Response)
A Correlation between Evaluator Feedback on Teacher Evaluations Using T-TESS and Student Test Scores
Ashley Barker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
One of the greatest challenges for schools is to identify effective and ineffective teachers in a classroom. Teacher evaluation is an expensive process in both time and resources. It is important that evaluations provide data to improve teaching and learning. Therefore, each evaluation needs to communicate opportunities for growth. This…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Improvement, Educational Improvement, Feedback (Response)
Michael Matta; Sterett H. Mercer; Milena A. Keller-Margulis – Grantee Submission, 2022
Written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) is a formative assessment approach for screening and progress monitoring. To extend evaluation of WE-CBM, we compared hand-calculated and automated scoring approaches in relation to the number of screening samples needed per student for valid scores, the long-term predictive validity and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Predictive Validity, Formative Evaluation
Michael Matta; Sterett H. Mercer; Milena A. Keller-Margulis – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
Written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) is a formative assessment approach for screening and progress monitoring. To extend evaluation of WE-CBM, we compared hand-calculated and automated scoring approaches in relation to the number of screening samples needed per student for valid scores, the long-term predictive validity and…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Predictive Validity, Formative Evaluation
Christopher D. Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Districts spend thousands of dollars on computerized teacher screeners without knowing if they are identifying the most effective teacher. Hiring quality staff is one of the most important job functions of a principal, and many times a teacher screener score may eliminate an effective teacher. The current study examined the value of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Scores, Screening Tests, Teacher Effectiveness
Arnoldo Ochoa Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public schools in the state of Texas are required by the Texas Education Agency to administer five state exams to high school students consisting of Algebra I, Biology, English I, English II, and U.S. History. These exams play a big role in school accountability and in high school graduation. For this reason, many schools develop intervention…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Science Tests, Biology, High School Students
Debra McKeown; Kay Wijekumar; Julie Owens; Karen Harris; Steve Graham; Puiwa Lei; Erin FitzPatrick – Grantee Submission, 2023
Writing is a critical skill for success in all areas of life, but it is one of the least taught skills in school. Teachers consistently report being unprepared to teach writing. In this study, set in a Southern U.S. boomtown, teachers received two days of practice-based professional development for a ten-week implementation of self-regulated…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Writing Strategies, Self Management
Rabia Telli – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation consists of two chapters that examine the impact of educational and positive youth development programs on students' academic and behavioral outcomes. In the first chapter, I evaluate the effect of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program, a school meal provision allowing schools meeting the eligibility requirements to…
Descriptors: Economics, Youth Programs, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Brown, Catherine; Boser, Ulrich; Sargrad, Scott; Marchitello, Max – Center for American Progress, 2016
In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind (NCLB), as the nation's major law governing public schools. ESSA retains the requirement that states test all students in reading and math in grades three through eight and once in high school, as well as the requirement that…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Alignment (Education)
Houston Independent School District, 2022
The dual-language bilingual program in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) is intended to facilitate emergent bilinguals (EBs) integration into the regular school curriculum and ensure access to equal educational opportunities, while promoting biliteracy and bilingualism for both EBs and native English speakers. The dual-language (DL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Bartanen, Brendan; Kwok, Andrew – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
We draw on rich longitudinal data from one of the largest teacher education programs in Texas to examine the properties of rubric-based observational evaluations of preservice teachers (PSTs) during clinical teaching. Using a variance decomposition approach, we find that little of the variation in observation scores is attributable to actual…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Observation, Student Teaching, Gender Differences
Marder, Michael – Texas Education Research Center, 2019
HB5 of 2013 eliminated many end of course exams and lowered the course-taking requirements for many high school students. What were the main consequences? College readiness as measured by high school exams dropped precipitously. However high-school course-taking patterns were largely unchanged. The goal of the research project presented in this…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Course Selection (Students), High School Students
Royal, Melanie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study analyzed whether participation in a multisensory, structured language intervention for students identified with dyslexia yielded any relationship to progress in reading comprehension as measured on state-mandated assessments of reading comprehension. The study analyzed both the amount of progress made in the curriculum, as well as, the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Dyslexia, Reading Comprehension, Grade 1
Pfirman, Stephanie; Hamilton, Lawrence; Turrin, Margie; Narveson, Craig; Lloyd, Carrie A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
This first analysis of aggregated data from the Kahoot! game-based player response system demonstrates that it can provide assessments of overall US student polar knowledge and identifies differences in polar knowledge across several states. A kahoot online quiz on polar topics recorded over 25,000 United States teacher-hosted classroom players…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Earth Science, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries
Terry, Shannon Dae – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative study was to test the theory of connectivism (Downes, 2012) by comparing Twitter educational followership and no Twitter educational followership in terms of the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) rating scores for elementary, junior high, and high school teachers in a large urban public-school…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Social Networks, Social Media, Elementary School Teachers