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Presley, Jennifer B.; White, Bradford R.; Gong, Yuqin – Online Submission, 2005
In a previous Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) policy research report, The Distribution of Teacher Quality in Illinois (IERC 2005-1), we introduced the Illinois Teacher Quality Index (TQI). The TQI is a school-level indicator of teacher quality that describes a school's concentration of certain teacher attributes that research suggests…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Screening Tests, Teacher Qualifications
Taymans, Juliana M.; Tindle, Kate P.; Freund, Maxine B.; Ortiz, Deanna M.; Harris, Lindsay A. – Online Submission, 2006
Accountability in many and varied forms is being required of teacher preparation programs. Weiner (2000) explores the dichotomy of the belief that meaningful learning needs to be situated versus policy that demands educational outcomes be standardized. This contradiction demands urgent analysis as we look for appropriate measures of accountability…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Urban Schools, Poverty
Akyeampong, Kwame; Djangmah, Jerome; Oduro, Abena; Seidu, Alhassan; Hunt, Frances – Online Submission, 2007
The analysis of access to education in Ghana builds on the Ministry of Education Sector Performance Report and the World Bank sector studies. Though access has improved it remains uneven and has not grown as fast enough to reach universal levels of participation in primary school and JSS [Junior Secondary School] by 2015. More needs to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Basic Skills, Access to Education, Attendance Patterns