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Kristin C. Scott; Mitchell Adrian; Jiun-Shiu Chen; Grace C. Su – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
Two-year public colleges educate more than 50% of all U.S. undergraduates, yet graduation rates (29%) fall far below their 4-year counterparts (63%). It is critical for students of 2-year public institutions that their faculty have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to effectively guide students toward graduation. This study…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Two Year Colleges, Public Colleges
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De León, Leticia; Corbeil, Rene; Corbeil, Maria Elena – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
K-12 educators' digital literacy skills have been designated as a national and state priority by education and accreditation agencies in Texas, resulting in the need for curriculum alignments to the 2017 ISTE Standards for Educators and implementation of a digital literacy evaluation. The purpose of this validation study was to develop a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Teacher Education, Digital Literacy
Stephanie Annette Sandwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was designed to explore the impact of professional development in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) of secondary mathematics teachers using The DuFour PLC model in one Southeast Texas School District. Descriptive statistics were compiled based on survey data from 19 participants. Internal consistency reliability was analyzed…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Communities of Practice, School Districts, Faculty Development
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Sarah Potvin; Tina Budzise-Weaver; Kathy Christie Anders – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study suggests the need for best practices, specialized tools and standards, and targeted outreach related to Web-based content cited in theses. It analyzes citation practices in a corpus of master's theses in performance studies published at Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2020. Finding that only a slim majority of Web-based material…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, Web Sites, Information Sources
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Toland, Michael D.; Grisham, Jennifer; Waddell, Misti; Crawford, Rebecca; Dueber, David M. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
Rasch and classification analyses on a field-test version of the third edition of the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS-3), a curriculum-based assessment used to assess young children birth to age 6 years, were conducted. First, an evaluation of the psychometric properties of data from each developmental area of an AEPS-3…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Field Tests, Young Children, Item Response Theory
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Rosario A. Marroquín-Flores; Rose Marie Tijerina; Mason Tedeschi; Sofia Banjara; Redmon Warmsley; Luke McFather; Zianna Casas; Lisa B. Limeri – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Students who hold minoritized identities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Educational institutions often apply a deficit lens to understanding disproportionate outcomes between minoritized students and those from the cultural majority. Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) is an asset-based framework that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students, STEM Education
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Walker, Timothy J.; Heredia, Natalia I.; Reininger, Belinda M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
The Social Support for Exercise Subscales are commonly used among Hispanic populations. The aims of this study were to test the validity and reliability of the Spanish-language version of the Social Support for Exercise Subscales and test the invariance of the Spanish- and English-language versions. Data were from a subsample of Hispanic adults in…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Exercise, Measures (Individuals)
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Ruby A. Daniels; Kathryn Appenzeller Knowles; Emily Naasz; Amanda Lindner – Numeracy, 2023
Institutional assessments of quantitative literacy/reasoning (QL/QR) have been extensively tested and reported in the literature. While appropriate for measuring student learning at the programmatic or institutional level, such instruments were not designed for classroom grading. After modifying a widely accepted institutional rubric designed to…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Grading, Numeracy, Multiple Literacies
Van Overschelde, James P.; Wiggins, Afi Y. – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
Teaching does not happen in a vacuum. Teachers teach and students learn within a school. The environment within that school can be either conducive to teaching "and" learning or detrimental to both. The school's teaching and learning environment includes, for example, the instructional expertise and leadership available to teachers, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Teacher Surveys, Validity, Reliability
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Grisham, Jennifer; Waddell, Misti; Crawford, Rebecca; Toland, Michael – Journal of Early Intervention, 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of the technical adequacy of the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System--Third Edition (AEPS-3). The AEPS has long been identified as one of the most psychometrically sound early childhood curriculum-based assessments. In this article, results of three studies of technical adequacy are…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, Curriculum Based Assessment, Psychometrics
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Smith, K. Christopher; Alonso, Valeria – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
In this study a survey was developed to investigate students' engagement during general chemistry laboratory sessions. Aspects of engagement surveyed included cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement, and the survey items were focused on activities during the pre-laboratory introduction, laboratory procedures, and data collection.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Wronowski, Meredith; VanGronigen, Bryan A.; Henry, Wesley; Olive, James L. – School Community Journal, 2022
School improvement plans (SIPs) have become a central feature of schooling. Educational leaders experience tension between balancing compliance with accountability demands and continuous improvement, and neither of these lenses is centered in the social justice necessary for closing opportunity gaps. We propose a new rubric for assessing the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Accountability, Evaluation Methods
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Torres, Anthony; Sriraman, Vedaraman; Ortiz, Araceli – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The focus of this study is to implement multiple assessment methods in order to comprehensively assess the impact of a Project Based Learning (PrBL) application in construction project management course. The assessment methods include various direct (objective) and indirect (subjective) evaluations methods. These methods included a pre and post…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Construction Management, Student Attitudes
Peltzman, Alissa; Curl, Cory – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
State and school report cards provide a powerful avenue for states to reach families and the broader public as essential partners in improving student outcomes. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and many state legislatures require states to publish an array of education data including measures at the state, district, and school levels.…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Decision Making
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Cato, Heather – English in Texas, 2020
In 2016, with mounting pressure from parents, educators, and other stakeholders around the state pushing back against the volume of standardized tests students are required to take, the Texas Education Agency introduced the Texas Writing Pilot. This pilot was designed to study the feasibility of creating an alternative writing assessment that…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Pilot Projects, Evaluation Methods
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