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Perdana, Arif; Chu, Mui Kim – Accounting Education, 2023
This study presents reflections from accounting lecturers in Singapore on the challenges and opportunities of conducting assessments during the crisis period of COVID-19. We seek to answer the following research question: What were the responses of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Singapore to the pandemic to maintain order in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Evaluation
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Puad, Lalu Mohammad Abid Zainul; Ashton, Karen – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
This study explores six secondary school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' views on classroom-based assessment at an Islamic boarding school in Lombok, Indonesia. Researching teacher views is important as a significant curriculum reform which mandates teachers' use of formative assessment practices within the classroom is planned for…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Islam, Religious Schools
Ward, C.; St. Martin, K.; Horner, R.; Duda, M.; Ingram-West, K.; Tedesco, M.; Putnam, D.; Buenrostro, M.; Chaparro, E. – National Implementation Research Network, 2019
The primary purpose of the District Capacity Assessment (DCA) is to assist school districts to implement effective innovations that benefit students. The "capacity" of a district to facilitate building-level implementation refers to the systems, activities, and resources that are necessary for schools to successfully adopt and sustain…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
St. Martin, K.; Ward, C.; Fixsen, D. L.; Harms, A.; Russell, C. – National Implementation Research Network, 2019
A Regional Education Agency (REA) functions as a partner with local districts and the State Educational Agency (SEA). REAs provide training, guidance and support intended to enable school districts to operate efficiently and improve their student outcomes. The primary purpose of this Regional Capacity Assessment (RCA) is to assist regional…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Regional Planning, Program Implementation, Educational Change
Kearney, Karen; Mattson, Heather; Cheung, Rebecca; Makkonen, Reino – California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2018
For the past six years, California has been revising its preparation system for school and district administrators, including developing the California Administrator Performance Assessment (CalAPA), the first required performance assessment for preliminary administrator certification. In this study, researchers from the California Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, State Policy, School Administration, Educational Change
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Herczog, Michelle M. – Social Education, 2014
The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards calls upon social studies teachers to enhance the rigor of civics, economics, geography, history and the other social studies disciplines while building the critical thinking, problem solving, and participatory skills of students to help them become actively…
Descriptors: Social Studies, State Standards, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
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Kraft, Matthew A.; Gilmour, Allison F. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as instructional leaders, but little is known about principals' ability to promote teacher development through the evaluation process. We conducted a case study of principals' perspectives on evaluation and their experiences implementing observation and feedback cycles to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Faculty Development, Evaluators
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Ledwell, Katherine; Oyler, Celia – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
We examine edTPA (a teacher performance assessment) implementation at one private university during the first year that our state required this exam for initial teaching certification. Using data from semi-structured interviews with 19 teacher educators from 12 programs as well as public information on edTPA pass rates, we explore whether the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Program Implementation
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Tüzün, Hakan; Çinar, Murat – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study shared unique design experiences by examining the process of transferring residential courses to the Web, and proposed a design model for individuals who want to transfer their courses into this environment. The formative research method was used in the study, and two project teams' processes of putting courses, which were being taught…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Production Techniques, Guidelines, Design Preferences
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Benson, Fiona; Hooton, Kate – Global Education Review, 2014
This paper explores the many and diverse factors that have driven changes to the field-based component of a program of teacher education in a large Canadian university over the past 10 years. We look at key contexts of influence to any work in program change; that of internal and external bodies at the institutional level, the operational or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Student Teaching
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Jonsson, Anders; Lundahl, Christian; Holmgren, Anders – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
This study reports on a large-scale implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) in a Swedish municipality. The implementation was founded on two principles: (1) teaching should be informed by educational research; (2) to be successful teachers' professional development needs to be based in everyday classroom practice. From these principles,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Educational Research, Instructional Innovation
Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Pivot Learning Partners, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Supovitz, Jonathan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
The allure of using data to improve performance is a source of tremendous activity in the education field today. "Data use" has spurred a wide variety of reforms at all different levels of the education system, ranging from infrastructure augmentation to state databases, to district dashboard systems that collect and display an array of…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Wallace, Carolyn S.; Priestley, Mark – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate socio-cultural factors underpinning curriculum change by examining teacher beliefs in the context of professional development. Scottish teachers in the study were participating in policy implementation based on formative assessment. Teachers were selected who were positive about the formative assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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