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Sara Sands Francis; Fiza Mairaj – Texas Education Review, 2025
Senate Bill (SB) 1882 partnerships, codified into Texas state law in 2017, are the latest iteration of portfolio management models (PMMs) in elementary and secondary education. PMMs aim to overhaul the current governance structure of public education, granting autonomy over critical areas of school operations to school operators, while using the…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School Districts, Portfolio Assessment
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Gesele E. Durham; Sheena G. Serslev; Matthew DeSantis – Assessment Update, 2024
The George Mason University (Mason) offices responsible for institutional reporting and assessment were merged to strengthen and solidify their functions and expertise. The organizational structure creating the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (OIEP) was intended to engineer a new paradigm where assessment would inform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, College Outcomes Assessment
Lucie Cerna; Luka Boeskens; Cecilia Mezzanotte; Samo Varsik; Ides Nicaise – OECD Publishing, 2024
The "OECD Review of Resourcing Schools to Address Educational Disadvantage in Ireland" provides an independent analysis meant to support Irish authorities in identifying ways to strengthen the resources and supports provided to students at risk of educational disadvantage in both DEIS and non-DEIS schools. The report serves three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educationally Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
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Hoare, Alana; Dishke Hondzel, Catharine; Wagner, Shannon – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2022
Purpose: Higher education institutions are required to evaluate program quality through cyclical program review processes. Despite often being considered the "gold standard" of academic review, there persists dissatisfaction with the lack of integration of program review findings into other planning processes, such as budgeting,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Educational Assessment
Marion, Scott; Domaleski, Chris; Brandt, Chris – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2020
The authors offer a set of recommendations for the next Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization. They recommend changes to the assessment, accountability and Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) as well as for a federally-supported research and evaluation…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Assessment
Raudonyte, Ieva – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2019
This Working Paper explores the extent to which learning assessment data influence education policymaking according to the available literature. It presents the key conclusions arising from this literature as well as problematic issues which are still open for discussion. It is based on a broader literature review conducted by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Elkins, Becki – New Directions for Student Services, 2015
This chapter reviews the history and current state of assessment in student affairs. It evaluates our progress to date and makes recommendations for the future.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Trends
Chinembiri, France – Online Submission, 2017
This paper majors on the evaluation criteria and methods used for the assessment of health education programs in the United States. The choice of the topic is dictated by the fact that there is need to improve on the quality of the graduates that the different nursing and medical institutions in the United States produce. By looking at the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation
Kitchen, Hannah; Bethell, George; Fordham, Elizabeth; Henderson, Kirsteen; Li, Richard Ruochen – OECD Publishing, 2019
How can assessment and evaluation policies work together more effectively to improve student outcomes in primary and secondary schools? The country reports in this series provide, from an international perspective, an independent analysis of major issues facing evaluation and assessment policy to identify improvements that can be made to enhance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
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Hurd, Noelle; Deutsch, Nancy – Future of Children, 2017
After-school programs offer young people opportunities for self-expression, exploring their talents, and forming relationships with supportive adults. That is, after-school programs promote young people's social and emotional learning (SEL) skills--whether the programs use that term or not. Despite these programs' potential, Noelle Hurd and Nancy…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, After School Programs, Educational Policy
Washington State Department of Early Learning, 2017
Washington is building a comprehensive learning system that emphasizes quality from birth to 18 years. With $1 million in funding from the Early Start Act, and matching funds from the Raikes Foundation, the Department of Early Learning (DEL) and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) have completed an Expanded Learning…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
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Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Language Testing, 2016
Educational policies such as Race to the Top in the USA affirm a central role for testing systems in government-driven reform efforts. Such reform policies are often referred to as the global education reform movement (GERM). Changes observed with the GERM style of testing demand socially engaged validity theories that include consequential…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Testing, Validity
Croft, Michelle – ACT, Inc., 2015
Scores on annual statewide achievement tests can provide parents, students, educators, and policymakers with valuable information--but only if students participate. This issue brief provides the background about recent increases in (and efforts to expand) the number of students opting out of statewide assessments, describes the information and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Student Participation, Incidence
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Morrill, Janet – Accounting Education, 2019
Internationally educated professionals (IEPs) encounter significant barriers to entry to their professions upon immigrating. Obtaining education in the new country is an effective means of improving their positions. While universities emphasize the need to attract and serve adult learners and a more diverse clientele, the specific needs of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Students, College Students, Transitional Programs
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Flowers, Nancy; Carpenter, Dawn M. H.; Begum, Shahana – Grantee Submission, 2018
The Middle-Grades Leadership Development (MLD) Project was designed to develop principal leaders and leadership teams who create high-performing middle-grades schools. Designed by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, the four-year project was funded from 2013 to 2017 by a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3)…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Leadership Training, Principals, Grants
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