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Howard, Barbara B.; Harman, Susan S. – ERS Spectrum, 2007
This study applies the "Personnel Evaluation Standards" of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation to the procedures, practices, and related components of a school's staff evaluation program to determine the program's effectiveness. Evaluators sought answers to questions including the extent to which the intended structures and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Professional Development, Evaluation Methods, Program Effectiveness
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Kimball, Steven M.; Heneman, Herbert G., III; Milanowski, Anthony – ERS Spectrum, 2007
This article reports on a national survey designed to learn how medium and large school districts are using standards-based leadership evaluation and related human resource management practices, such as pay for performance. Surveys were sent to all school districts in the United States with student populations 10,000 and over (total n=867).…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, School Districts, Human Resources, Leadership
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Taylor, Rosemarye T.; Moxley, Dale; Boulware, Don – ERS Spectrum, 2007
In this article, the authors explore which conditions support the success of literacy coaches. Because the literacy coach position is a relatively new one, this article examines some of the questions related to designing and implementing the position of the literacy coach, and the potential influence of the position on student achievement. The…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Participation, Literacy, Academic Achievement
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Fowler, William J., Jr.; Mittapalli, Kavita – ERS Spectrum, 2006
This article critically questions where public school teachers go when they leave the teaching profession. It reviews the research to find that few studies appear to explain what occupations former experienced teachers ("leavers") move to. The article draws evidence from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data sets and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Public School Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Public Education
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Blank, Rolf K.; Smithson, John; Porter, Andrew; Nunnaley, Diana; Osthoff, Eric – ERS Spectrum, 2006
The instructional improvement model Data on Enacted Curriculum was tested with an experimental design using randomized place-based trials. The improvement model is based on using data on instructional practices and achievement to guide professional development and decisions to refocus on instruction. The model was tested in 50 U.S. middle schools…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, State Standards, Instructional Improvement, Educational Change
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Ligon, Glynn D. – ERS Spectrum, 2006
Educators base many of their most significant decisions on what they think will happen in the future. This article on education technology begins by outlining six notable advances in education information technology that have already occurred. Ten predictions are made concerning general advances in education information technology for the next…
Descriptors: Prediction, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Data