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Miller, Emily R.; Fairweather, James S.; Slakey, Linda; Smith, Tobin; King, Tara – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
In 2011, the Association of American Universities (AAU) embarked on an ambitious effort to improve the instructional quality and effectiveness of undergraduate introductory Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses. The primary focus was on sustainable implementation of evidence-based methods of instruction in courses that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, STEM Education, Educational Quality, Undergraduate Students
McMillie, Kyann L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In 2008, educational leaders from the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) assigned a group of turnaround specialists to work in four failing public schools in a large, urban school district in Phoenix, Arizona in hopes of improving those schools. The utilization of turnaround specialists in failing schools was Arizona's method of enacting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Federal Legislation, Teacher Surveys, Specialists
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Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Sharp, Alyssa – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2014
This study explored the relationships among the components of the Arizona Department of Education's new teacher evaluation model, with a particular focus on the extent to which ratings from the state model's teacher observation instrument differentiated higher and lower performance. The study used teacher-level evaluation data collected by the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Observation, State Departments of Education, Correlation
Rindone, Douglas – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2009
The Delaware Enhanced Assessment Grant (DE EAG) project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education in 2006 as an initiative to assist 10 state departments of education (SDE) teams, and local school district and high school teams, in implementing a comprehensive and balanced learning and assessment system (CBAS) with a strong emphasis on a…
Descriptors: High Schools, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Program Implementation
Arizona State Dept. of Public Instruction, Phoenix. Div. of Migrant Child Education. – 1969
As part of an annual program the Office of Migrant Child Education, Arizona State Department of Public Instruction, made arrangements to send teachers to the States of Colorado and Washington for a tour of their Migrant Child Education programs. The program objective was to provide an opportunity for State educational agencies to share training…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Mexican Americans, Migrant Education, Program Descriptions