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Menter, Ian, Ed. – Springer, 2023
This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research. In a global landscape where migration, inequality, climate change, political upheavals and strife continue to be broadly manifest, governments and scholars alike are increasingly considering what role…
Descriptors: Guides, Teacher Education, Educational Research, Immigration
Manna, Paul, Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick, Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Failure, Decision Making
Winter, Phoebe C., Ed. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
In 2006, a consortium of state departments of education, led by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Council of Chief State School Officers, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to investigate methods of determining comparability of variations of states' assessments used to meet the requirements of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Alternative Assessment, Spanish, Linguistics
Atlanta Public Schools, GA. Div. of Research, Evaluation, and Data Processing. – 1993
This collection presents evaluation reports on 52 Atlanta (Georgia) public schools. Critical questions and key findings are presented for each school in the areas of: (1) general descriptive characteristics, such as enrollment, student mobility, Chapter 1 services, and prior experiences of students; (2) performance-based achievement on Georgia…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis
Douglas, Dan, Ed.; Chapelle, Carol, Ed. – 1993
Papers from the conference on language testing include: "Foundations and Directions for a New Decade of Language Testing" (Carol Chapelle, Dan Douglas); "A Comparison of the Abilities Measured by the Cambridge and Educational Testing Service EFL Test Batteries" (Lyle F. Bachman, Fred Davidson, John Foulkes); "Judgments in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Trends
Brown, James Dean, Ed.; Yamashita, Sayoko Okada, Ed. – 1995
Papers on second language testing in Japan include: "Differences Between Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests" (James Dean Brown); "Criterion-Referenced Test Construction and Evaluation" (Dale T. Griffe); "Behavioral Learning Objectives as an Evaluation Tool" (Judith A. Johnson); "Developing Norm-…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, College Entrance Examinations