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Borko, Hilda; Stecher, Brian; Kuffner, Karin – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
This document includes the final data collection and scoring tools created by the "Scoop" project, a five-year project funded through the Center for Evaluation, Standards,and Student Testing (CRESST), to develop an alternative approach for characterizing classroom practice. The goal of the project was to use artifacts and related materials to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Testing, Faculty Development, Educational Change
Borko, Hilda; Stecher, Brian M. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
This report presents findings from two investigations of the use of classroom artifacts to measure the presence of reform-oriented teaching practices in middle-school science classes. It complements previous research on the use of artifacts to describe reform-oriented teaching practices in mathematics. In both studies, ratings based on collections…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Investigations, Mathematics
Stecher, Brian M.; Wood, Alice C.; Gilbert, Mary Lou; Borko, Hilda; Kuffner, Karin L.; Arnold, Suzanne C.; Dorman, Elizabeth H. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
The purpose of this research is to determine whether we can use classroom artifacts as the basis for making valid judgments about the presence of reform-oriented teaching practices in middle-school mathematics classes. Our approach compares ratings based on collections of artifacts assembled by teachers according to our directions (the "Scoop…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Observation, Field Tests, Middle School Teachers