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Matthew Christopher Myers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study uses an experimental comparative design to accomplish two primary goals related teachers' perceptions of automated writing evaluation (AWE) performance. First, it quantitatively and qualitatively examines teachers' perceptions of the accuracy and trustworthiness of differentially performing AWE models. Second, it synthesizes interview…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers, Automation
Courtney McClendon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School districts choose programs based on limited data, word of mouth, or cost-effectiveness. STEM-based schools often choose project-based learning (PBL) programs to deliver curricula through limited research and word of mouth effectiveness. This study evaluated one PBL program implementation in the context of a suburban Texas middle school by…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Program Evaluation, STEM Education
Parker, Neelie B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This action research study examined the relationship between teacher performance and student achievement in reading language arts and mathematics. The study sought to determine if teacher evaluation methods used to determine teacher performance, had a relationship in improving student achievement. The researcher investigated the topic using…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Achievement, Models, Teacher Evaluation
Kevin Christopher Ng – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is comprised of three essays, each examining a different topic in labor economics. In Chapter 1, I examine the productivity and selection effects of K-12 teacher tenure by leveraging variation from New Jersey's TEACHNJ Act. This law extended the pre-tenure period from three to four years and allowed districts to dismiss…
Descriptors: Labor Economics, Productivity, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Martin, Patrice R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As students' reading proficiency gaps persist across the United States, educational leaders have turned to alternative methods to foster effective instructional literacy practices. One approach to combat this dilemma is the implementation of scripted reading programs. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of scripted reading…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Outcomes of Education
Amy Castro Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Value-added assessment is designed to measure teacher contributions to student achievement in order to promote effective teaching (Battelle for Kids, 2011b; Darling-Hammond et al., 2012; Lee, 2011). When value-added assessment is used, research indicates that in some cases effective teaching is promoted, but in other cases it is not…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Models, Scores, Teaching Methods
Bobby Neal Duke III – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School improvement remains one of the most prevalent and often controversial topics in education today, and key to improving schools is understanding the role teachers play as a primary influence on student learning. Consistent and ongoing improvement, however, has not been subjugated to education alone, and looking for improvement strategies…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teacher Role, Goal Orientation, Models
Jason F. Bletzinger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Now more than ever, school principals play a critical role in the effective implementation of inclusive education programs in their schools, as inclusive practices are becoming tightly embedded in a school's culture (Sailor, 2016; Shogren et al., 2015). The success of inclusive education programs has been primarily supported by school principals'…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Growth Models
Currie, Josie Zelinski – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to investigate relationships between elementary-level educators' perceptions of their school's implementation of Green's four-dimensional model of educational leadership and the percentage of students proficient in Language Arts and in Mathematics, averaged over three years. Represented by responses to twenty items…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Program Implementation, Models, Elementary School Teachers
Horan, Shayne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative study was to use an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) approach to discover generative instructional and assessment practices of teachers in the language arts classroom at a 5th and 6th grade low socioeconomic public school campus in Texas that earned five distinctions or three consecutive years. The study sought to design a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Empowerment, Teacher Empowerment, Qualitative Research
Avila, Delphina J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The price of not being English proficient in the United States is costly. A study using 2000 census data showed that people who were not English proficient experienced lower earnings than those who spoke only English (Community and Regional Development Estate, 2005). The cost of being a non-proficient English speaker has the potential to decrease…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English Language Learners, Models, Limited English Speaking
Jeanette Marie Basirico Lohr – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Resilience, as defined by the literature, deals with the relationship between individuals and their environment. This capstone project followed elementary students over a three-year period to investigate and determine the impact a co-teaching intervention model has on resilience, grade-point average (GPA), state testing scores in English language…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Brumfield, Jeremy Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study sought to explore the perceptions of classroom teachers and an instructional support team regarding the effectiveness of an established reading Response to Intervention model. It compared the perceptions of both groups regarding the model's effectiveness, focusing on its strengths and weaknesses. The similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Intervention, Models
Zhou, Nan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Researchers using VAM (Value-Added Models) methods have found that student achievement is substantially impacted by both schools and teachers. However, most of this work has been conducted within the context of the United States. Information is lacking about the educational system in China. This first study examines methodological concerns…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Influence, School Policy
Budge, Bracken Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the impact of grade-span configuration on the academic achievement and attendance of sixth-grade students. Because of the conflicting results in the extant literature, it was not known if and to what extent there was a difference in sixth-grade student achievement and attendance rates between students who attend a K-8 versus a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Academic Achievement, Grade 6
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