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Glanz, Jeffrey; Shulman, Vivian; Sullivan, Susan – Online Submission, 2007
This paper reports on the final phase of a three-part study on the status of instructional supervision within several New York City public schools. In the first parts of the study the researchers found, through extensive use of surveys (questionnaires and interviews), that centralized educational reform had serious consequences for instructional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, School Supervision, Statistical Data, School Administration
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Brown, Gavin T. L. – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
Teachers' conceptions of assessment can be understood in terms of their agreement or disagreement with four purposes to which assessment may be put, specifically, (a) improvement of teaching and learning, (b) school accountability, (c) student accountability, or (d) treating assessment as irrelevant. A 50-item Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Questionnaires
de Cohen, Clemencia Cosentino; Clewell, Beatriz Chu – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2007
To expand knowledge about young immigrant populations and to document how the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) affects the education of English language learner (ELL) and limited English proficient (LEP) students, the Urban Institute was funded by the Foundation for Child Development to undertake a series of reports. This policy brief draws on this…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Limited English Speaking, English (Second Language)