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Examining Performance and Attitudes of TESOL Preservice Teachers and Their English Learners in a Service-Learning Project
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Macknish, Cynthia; Tomaš, Zuzana; Vojtkuláková, Margita – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2018
Service-learning has increasingly been implemented to enhance teacher education coursework in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Service-learning engages preservice teachers in activities or projects that benefit a particular community of stakeholders with ties to English as an additional language learning while…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A New Politics of the Principalship? Accountability-Driven Change in New York City
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Shipps, Dorothy; White, Monica – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
How do principals adjust to new standards and measurement rulers of school performance when they are coupled with high-stakes consequences? Adopting a contingent view of leadership and a multiple accountabilities framework, this qualitative study explores how high school principals enacted their accountability in New York City, by comparing two…
Descriptors: Accountability, Principals, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Dynamic Assessment: Assessment "for" and "as" Teaching?
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Leung, Constant – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
Dynamic assessment (DA), as a pro-learning form of assessment, has been discussed in the educational literature for three decades or more. As a concept it has yet to be picked up in any significant way by the more established second language testing/assessment literature published in the English language. There is, however, every reason to believe…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Testing, Language Tests
Teens, Crime, and the Community. 1995 Student Impact Assessment Report.
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Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., Boulder, CO. – 1995
Since 1985, the National Crime Prevention Council and the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law have collaborated to support the implementation of the Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) curriculum in schools, community-based organizations, and juvenile justice settings. The curriculum is intended for youth at seventh- through…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Crime, Curriculum
Evaluation of Teens, Crime & the Community, 1992.
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Social Program Evaluators and Consultants, Inc., Bingham Farms, MI. – 1992
Since 1985, the National Crime Prevention Council and the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law have been supporting the implementation of the Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) curriculum for use in a variety of settings. The curriculum is intended for teenagers aged 14 to 18. The 1992 evaluation was an outgrowth of smaller…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Crime, Curriculum
Welfare-to-Work and Learning Disability Interventions in Kansas Community College Settings: Phase IV, Learning Disability Assessment Project. Project Final Report.
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Mellard, Daryl; Johnson, Richard – 2002
The Road to Success (RtS) program was designed to introduce hard-to-employ adults with learning disabilities and other cognitive barriers to ways of learning that are will enable them to learn the skills and knowledge they will need as employees and in their everyday lives. Originally developed to serve welfare recipients in Kansas, RtS was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes