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Download full textMcGinnis, J. Randy – 2002
This paper reports on the use of teacher-written "cases" as evaluation data sources. Cases are first hand, candid, dramatic, highly readable accounts of events or a series of events in teaching. Eight teaching cases were collected which had been written by new teachers who graduated from the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education
Watson, Donna J. R.; Bunch, Michael B. – 1983
A statewide assessment was made of specific nutrition education and training needs in Maryland public schools. The approach used allowed an examination of both needs and possible solutions, examined needs which required multiple solutions, and identified resources which could address multiple needs. This multimethodological approach included site…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Health Education
Roberts, Jane M. E.; Woolf, Beth – 1984
This paper describes various kinds of inservice teacher education sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education and explores the factors influencing impact on participants in terms of use of knowledge or skills presented. Data were collected by observation, interviews, and questionnaires. A cross-case synthesis of 10 individual case…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Schafer, William D. – 1997
As part of a study of school effectiveness, a procedure was developed to select schools for study based on extreme high or extreme low degrees of successfulness in reading. Data for all 775 public elementary schools in Maryland that were active in 1995 were used. Five triads of schools were selected, each triad consisting of two schools that were…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, High Achievement
Rajasekhara, Koosappa; McConochie, Daniel D. – 1991
In order to study transfer trends in Maryland, a method was developed for matching student records at two-year sending institutions and four-year receiving institutions in the state. Transfer matrices, which utilized the computerized fall enrollment records of all public two- and four-year institutions in Maryland, allowed for a campus-to-campus…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational Research
McConochie, Daniel D.; Rajasekhara, Koosappa – 1992
In 1991, the Maryland State Board for Community Colleges developed the "success rate," a reporting index which combined graduation, transfer, and persistence rates. Success rate matrices were produced by tracking first-time, full-time students representing seven cohorts (1980 to 1986) over a 4-year period, and matching entering…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
