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Cherasaro, Trudy L.; Brodersen, R. Marc; Reale, Marianne L.; Yanoski, David C. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2016
The importance of teacher effectiveness is well supported by studies that document variation in teachers' abilities to contribute to student achievement gains. All else being equal, students taught by some teachers experience greater achievement gains than do students taught by other teachers. In response to initiatives to increase educator…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness
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Fredricks, Jennifer; McColskey, Wendy; Meli, Jane; Mordica, Joy; Montrosse, Bianca; Mooney, Kathleen – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
Researchers, educators, and policymakers are focusing more on student engagement as the key to addressing low achievement, student boredom and alienation, and high dropout rates (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, and Paris 2004). As schools and districts seek to increase engagement, it is important for them to understand how it has been defined and to assess…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychometrics, Identification, Measures (Individuals)
Iowa Department of Education, 2007
Legislation passed during the 2001 Iowa legislative session established the Student Achievement and Teacher Quality Program, Iowa Code Section 284.12(1). This legislation requires the Iowa Department of Education (DE) to annually report the statewide progress on the following: student achievement scores in mathematics and reading at the fourth and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 4, Grade 8, Scores