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Sinclair, Andrea L., Ed.; Thacker, Arthur, Ed. – Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO), 2019
California's Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission) requires all programs of preliminary multiple and single subject teacher preparation to use a Commission-approved Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) as one of the program completion requirements for prospective teacher candidates. Three TPA models were approved by the Commission: (1)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Models, Credentials
Ezekiel Dixon-Roman; Edmund W. Gordon – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
While much is known about the critical importance of educative experiences outside of school, little is known about the social systems, community programs, and everyday practices that can facilitate learning outside of the classroom. "Thinking Comprehensively About Education" sheds much-needed light on those systems, programs, and…
Descriptors: Education, Social Systems, Economics, Foreign Countries
Afterschool Alliance, 2013
The Afterschool Alliance and MetLife Foundation are proud to celebrate a fifth round of the MetLife Foundation Afterschool Innovator Awards. For the past five years, we have collaborated to highlight the work of quality afterschool programs that support children, families and communities across the nation. This compendium is a compilation of four…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Middle School Students, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
Gilbert, Michael B., Ed. – 1980
This monograph, dealing with some current issues in educational administration, points out some of the dilemmas and problems that accompany the educational changes that administrators face. The papers included in the publication outline important challenges with which educational leaders must cope, such as changing public policy and concomitant…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Johnson, Tracy, Ed. – Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS), 2006
This cumulative report presents the synopses of the major articles, research notes, and publications from the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS) project. After a Letter from the Director and sections on the people and origins of TRUCCS, and a synopses, the report contains the following sections: (1) Transfer…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Remedial Mathematics
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness
Bonilla, Carlos A., Ed.; Goss, Joyce, Ed. – 1997
This book contains seven chapters, written by graduate students in teacher education, on educational strategies to promote multiculturalism and combat racial, ethnic, and gender bias in the classroom. Chapters are: (1) "Diversity and Multiculturalism: Quo Vadis? What Is Multiculturalism?" (Deborah Bradford Basey, Michelle Danner, Stacy…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
Hardesty, Larry, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2007
While the library is at the center of many campuses physically, it is often an overlooked and underused resource in improving the learning and success of first-year college students. Librarians, classroom faculty, administrators, and higher education researchers come together to explore the potential of the library in shaping the student…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, College Freshmen, Change Agents