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Courtney Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Preschoolers receive inadequate science instruction despite preschool science benefits and adopting early learning science standards in New Jersey. This qualitative exploratory case study explored 17 preschool teachers of 4-year-old students' perceptions of using the New Jersey Preschool Teaching and Learning Standards for science and how they…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Education, Academic Standards
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Figley, Charles R.; Thyer, Bruce A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
This article offers some general guidelines to social work faculty seeking to be promoted to the rank of Full Professor, guidelines that we hope will provide a beginning discussion for individual programs to develop more transparent criteria and expectations for promotion to the highest rank in the academy. Specifically, we offer guidance about…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Social Work, Counselor Training
Sheryl S. Lazarus; Mari Quanbeck – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2023
The alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS) is designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), placed a 1% cap for states on student participation in the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
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Melissa A. St. Hilaire; Jimmy Franco – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Higher education constantly has to adapt to meet the changing needs of our students. One of the challenges instructors have faced when delivering online courses is the assessment integrity. This issue was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced educators to quickly convert traditional in-person courses to online versions of the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Intermode Differences
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Townsley, Matt; Schmid, David – Journal of Competency-Based Education, 2020
Due to a lack of buy-in from multiple stakeholder groups, institutions of higher learning may struggle to reorient their entire course and program offerings to embrace the full breadth of competency-based education. One such way of overcoming these systematic issues to make incremental progress toward competency-based education is to consider…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competency Based Education, Grading, Mastery Learning
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Peake, Jason; Rubenstein, Eric; Byrd, Benjamin – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
The purpose of this Delphi study was to determine perceptions of 16 stakeholders regarding what topics should be included in new elementary agricultural education curriculum for the state of Georgia. Participants consisted of elementary principals/teachers/counselors, middle school teachers, Ag in the classroom representatives, Agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Zhang, Jiahui; Cogan, Leland S.; Schmidt, William H. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
This study addresses measurement issues around a standards-based content analysis of mathematics textbooks' coverage of standards for use in large-scale monitoring of standards implementation as proposed in a 2013 report by the National Research Council. An earlier study produced an exhaustive content analysis of textbooks using the 2012 Common…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Academic Standards, Mathematics Curriculum, Content Analysis
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Wahlström, Ninni – Curriculum Journal, 2020
The purpose of this keynote address is to discuss how curriculum theory can make a specific contribution to research on transnational education policy; in particular, curriculum theory has implications for national policy due to the interest in exploring educational phenomena at different levels of the school system. From a Swedish perspective on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Educational Theories, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Kaldaras, Leonora; Akaeze, Hope; Krajcik, Joseph – Educational Assessment, 2021
Deep science understanding is reflected in students' ability to use content and skills when making sense of the world. Assessing deep understanding requires measuring complex constructs that combine elements of content and skills. To develop valid measures of complex constructs, we need to understand how their theoretical dimensionality, reflected…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards, Science Education
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Connors, Christina B. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2021
While both summative and formative assessments are necessary, finding the right balance can be challenging. The author examines the pros and cons of each and their reliance on one another.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Educational Benefits
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Boud, David; Jorre de St Jorre, Trina – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2021
The rush to short courses and use of micro-credentials prompted by responses to the pandemic has greatly accelerated a trend already underway. However, few studies have examined the impact of short courses or micro-credentials on skills or employment outcomes, and this hasty move draws attention to major problems in the ways in which higher…
Descriptors: Credentials, Minicourses, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
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Tahani, Alebous – Educational Research and Reviews, 2021
The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of understanding of first three grade preservice teachers of the scientific and engineering practices according to next generation science standards (NGSS) at the World Islamic Sciences University. The sample of the study consisted of 154 fourth year female student teachers at International…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Education, Academic Standards, Engineering Education
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Busey, Christopher L.; Corral, Alvaro J.; Davis, Erika L. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Anti-Latinx political discourses have long positioned Latin America and, by extension, U.S. Latinxs as economic, sociocultural, and political threats to the general welfare of the United States. In formal school curricula, this threat narrative has become one of the many political curricular discourses for codifying citizenship…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Social Bias, Hispanic Americans
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Ajjawi, Rola; Bearman, Margaret; Boud, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
This paper offers a critical and theoretical exploration of the contemporary use of standards in assessment in higher education. It outlines three discourses of assessment standards. Each perspective foregrounds particular realities and backgrounds others, and so influences practice in particular taken-for-granted ways. The assumptions of these…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Student Evaluation, Higher Education, College Students
Chamoagne, Tracy Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study had a purpose to review the grade level curriculum standards for the GEAPP and factors contributing to the program such as collaboration with community stakeholders and other existing Agriculture entities such as Middle School Agriculture Education and High School Agriculture Education Programs, the National FFA Organization chapters,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Pilot Projects, Elementary Education, Teacher Certification
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