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"Becoming Effective Learners" Survey Development Project
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Farrington, Camille; Levenstein, Rachel; Nagaoka, Jenny – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
The educational outcomes of low-income and racial/ethnic minority students suggest that there is a fundamental disconnect between contemporary schooling and the needs of students in urban schools. Most attempts to address these problems in K-12 schools have focused on increasing students' mastery of content knowledge and skills. While the evidence…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Policy Brief. MET Project
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2010
In fall 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to test new approaches to recognizing effective teaching. The project's goal is to help build fair and reliable systems for teacher observation and feedback to help teachers improve and administrators make better personnel decisions.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Research Paper. MET Project
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2010
In fall 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to test new approaches to measuring effective teaching. The goal of the MET project is to improve the quality of information about teaching effectiveness available to education professionals within states and districts--information that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Gender and Gang Membership: A Contrast of Rural and Urban Youth on Attitudes and Behavior.
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Dukes, Richard L.; Stein, Judith A. – Youth & Society, 2003
Investigated the relationships of gender and gang membership to latent variables of psychosocial characteristics, drug use, delinquency, weapons possession, and fear within rural and urban Colorado school districts. Surveys of 1,669 self-reported gang members and 1,742 non-gang members indicated that gender was related more strongly to the latent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Drug Abuse, Gender Issues
Merging General and Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs to Create an Inclusive Program for Diverse Learners
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Sobel, Donna M.; Iceman-Sands, Deanna; Basile, Carole – New Educator, 2007
This article describes a number of internal organizational initiatives within an urban teacher education program designed to foster inclusive, responsive practices by newly licensed general and special education teacher candidates. After implementing a merged preparation program for both special and general educators, we captured faculty and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Special Education Teachers, Special Education
Computer Use among Secondary Students in a Colorado School-to-Career Project.
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Danzig, Arnold; Aljarrah, Abdul – NASSP Bulletin, 1999
A survey of all students enrolled in computer courses at a Colorado high school during fall 1997 revealed positive perceptions of the courses' value. Students enrolled in desktop publishing and word processing courses were more satisfied with these courses than were those enrolled in literacy lab, vocational education, and keyboarding classes.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Computer Literacy, Computers, Courses