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Download full textBobby W. Chung; Jian Zou – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The debate on the stringency of licensure exams for prospective public school teachers is on-going, including the recent controversial roll-out of the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). We leverage the quasi-experimental setting of different adoption timing by states and analyze multiple data sources containing a national sample of…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Teacher Supply and Demand, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Kansas Association of School Boards (NJ1), 2011
Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) staff created an index of educational outcomes to compare results from state to state. This report is an analysis of that study. A list of the overall rankings is included on the back page of this report. The index is based on a combination of objective qualitative measures. The data comes from national…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate, College Entrance Examinations
Center on Education Policy, 2010
In grade 8 (the only grade in which subgroup trends were analyzed by achievement level), Florida students showed gains almost across the board in both reading and math at the basic, proficient, and advanced levels for racial/ethnic subgroups, low income students, and boys and girls. Progress has been made in narrowing achievement gaps in both…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Steelman, Lala Carr; Powell, Brian – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Differences in the corrected state rankings on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are explained by the percentage of students taking the test and by student composition by sex, race, and average family income. Higher state per capita educational expenditures are significantly related to higher average SAT scores. Policy implications are…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1973
A pilot study to investigate the views of Sir Herbert Read on art education is presented. The views include: (1) Real art education (visual language) represents a group of stimuli-response behaviors which direct and shape us; (2) The policy of education through art is based on the hypothesis that the images we evoke in the course of any kind of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Gitomer, Drew H. – Educational Testing Service, 2007
The past eight years have seen an unprecedented level of education policy activity focused on issues of teacher quality. Policies have been developed at federal, state, and institutional levels, and include increased institutional reporting of teacher candidates' test scores, the mandate for Highly Qualified Teachers (HQT) in the No Child Left…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Federal Legislation, Educational Testing
