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Ciji A. Heiser; Julene L. Jones; Glenn Allen Phillips – Assessment Update, 2024
Institutions of higher education are asked to consider how their work can advance equity in institutional outcomes. Assessment, too, has been asked to consider the ways in which traditional student assessment "privileges and validates certain types of learning and evidence of learning over others" (Montenegro and Jankowski 2017, p. 5).…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Assessment, Professional Development
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Tom Manning – Learning Professional, 2024
The Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) has provided relevant, educator-level data helping systems of all kinds -- states, districts, schools, provinces, and organizations -- gather and track data about the professional learning their educators experience. An online, confidential, valid, and reliable instrument administered to school-based…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Faculty Development, Program Improvement, Measures (Individuals)
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Cherese Childers-McKee; Sara Ewell; Joan Giblin; Joseph McNabb; Melissa Parenti – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2024
Northeastern University's EdD faculty faced unique challenges during the pandemic and racial reckoning following George Floyd's murder. During this period, however, we found opportunities to adapt and improve our program. We prioritized compassion and connection. We made significant strides in curriculum development through design and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Program Improvement, Curriculum Development, Program Design
Marion, Scott – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2020
In March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and attending shift to remote schooling initiated a dramatic impact on student learning, an impact that state and district leaders feel a sense of urgency to understand and address. These leaders are accustomed using state and district test data to shed light on student achievement and growth. But without…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Data Collection, COVID-19
Isaac, James; Velez, Erin; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2023
Students, families, colleges, and lawmakers need clearer information on postsecondary outcomes to make informed decisions. By leveraging data available at institutions and federal agencies, a nationwide student-level data network (SLDN) would close information gaps that persist in our higher education landscape to answer critical questions about…
Descriptors: College Students, Data, Information Networks, Program Design
Bouchey, Heather – Vermont Agency of Education, 2018
As communicated via a November 2017 memo (see ED610130), the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), in collaboration with their implementation vendor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), has been working to finalize the design, development, and testing of a Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS). Through its Vertical Reporting processes, the SLDS will…
Descriptors: State Programs, Longitudinal Studies, State Policy, Program Design
Public Impact, 2018
For more than a decade teacher residencies have prepared classroom-ready teachers for hard-to-staff subjects and high-need schools. Across the country, mounting evidence shows that residencies produce effective teachers who stay in the profession longer and produce greater student achievement than traditionally-trained teachers. No residency,…
Descriptors: Program Design, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Finance, Sustainability
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Blackwell, Stacey; Katzen, Sari; Patel, Nipa; Sun, Yan; Emenike, Mary – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
The authors introduce the Preparation in STEM Leadership Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This NSF-Funded program and research study creates a centralized training program for peer leaders that includes a battery of assessments to evaluate peer leaders' content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, communication skills, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Peer Groups, STEM Education, Leadership Training
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Anderson, Lorin W. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
In this summary article, six recommendations for the design, implementation, and interpretation of educational evaluations are presented and discussed. These recommendations are based on common "threads" that run through most, if not all, of the papers included in this special issue. The recommendations concern (1) the need for awareness…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Program Design, Program Implementation
Hawaii State Department of Education, 2023
The Hawai'i State Department of Education is excited to provide a comprehensive menu of engaging summer learning opportunities for students in the upcoming summer months. This summer, offerings will span all grade levels, from a transition program for incoming kindergartners to paid summer internships for our graduating seniors. Schools have…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Design
Erkens, Cassandra – Solution Tree, 2015
Explore the practical steps teacher teams must take to establish clear, comprehensive assessment systems that guide instruction and strengthen PLCs. This book has the capacity to reignite passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning. Strengthen instructional agility in professional learning communities with…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Communities of Practice
Mintrop, Rick – Harvard Education Press, 2016
At the heart of the effort to enact and scale up successful school reforms is the need for more robust links between research and practice. One promising approach is design development, a methodology widely used in other fields and only recently adapted to education, which offers a disciplined process for identifying practical problems, assessing…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Case Studies, Research and Development
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Keller-Margulis, Milena A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
Response to Intervention (RtI) has gained increased attention with the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. Since RtI was introduced at the policy level as a mechanism for use in the learning disability identification process, much of the implementation work has focused on this application. School-based…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Response to Intervention, Fidelity, Federal Legislation
Killion, Joellen – Learning Forward, 2013
Given what system leaders must accomplish with limited resources, they must make bold decisions about their current investments to achieve high-priority goals related to implementing college- and career-ready standards. This workbook is designed to guide users through a five-step process of understanding what professional learning is available in…
Descriptors: Workbooks, Professional Education, Professional Development, Learning Activities
Friedman, Daniel B. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Curriculum Implementation
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