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Complex Teacher Evaluation Systems Can Produce Negative Perceptions
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Schumacher, Gary – ERS Spectrum, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine teacher perceptions of the impact on instructional practice when using a complex, standards-based performance evaluation system. The study used expectancy theory to investigate teacher expectancy (did they believe they could enhance their practice to the identified program standards?), instrumentality…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Evaluation of a Drug Education Program: Does It Reduce Student Drug Abuse?
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Strusinski, Marianne; Gomez, Joseph J. – ERS Spectrum, 1996
Examines perceptions of principals, teachers, elementary students, and parents of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program for fifth graders begun in Dade County (Florida) Schools in 1988-89. Compares ninth-grade program graduates' drug use with that of a comparable group of non-DARE students. DARE and non-DARE students exhibit no…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes
Single-Gender Classrooms: Lessons from a New York Middle School
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Ferrara, Peter J.; Ferrara, Margaret M. – ERS Spectrum, 2004
When a New York school district found a majority of its middle school students scoring below an acceptable level in four major academic areas, it tried many interventions, including a three-year experiment in single-gender classrooms. Although single-gender classrooms are no longer as common in the United States as in years past, recent…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Attendance Patterns, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes