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Chen, Junjun; Cowie, Bronwen – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
This study investigated the responses of 531 preservice teachers to a "Beliefs About Assessment" questionnaire in China. The questionnaire focused on understanding the purposes, practices and principles of assessment for and of learning. Using factor analysis, an inter-correlated two-order model fitted well to the responses. This model…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Kimbel, Tyler; Clemens, Elysia V. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
The School Counseling Program Report Card--Student Version is a program evaluation tool designed to capture high school student perceptions of school counseling services. This article describes the initial instrument development process. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 305) yielded a 22-item instrument with three subscales that mirror the ASCA…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Program Development, Program Validation, Counseling Services
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Lincove, Jane Arnold; Osborne, Cynthia; Dillon, Amanda; Mills, Nicholas – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Despite questions about validity and reliability, the use of value-added estimation methods has moved beyond academic research into state accountability systems for teachers, schools, and teacher preparation programs (TPPs). Prior studies of value-added measurement for TPPs test the validity of researcher-designed models and find that measuring…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Accountability, Politics of Education, School Statistics
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Pounder, Diana – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2012
This article addresses the leadership preparation line of inquiry developed in the past decade by the University Council for Educational Administration/Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership Special Interest Group Taskforce on Evaluating Leadership Preparation Programs, and it particularly addresses the series of survey instruments…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Program Evaluation
Child Trends, 2009
Measures assessing the quality of children's environments and interactions in nonparental care settings were developed originally for use in child care research and as self-assessment tools for practitioners. Within the last decade, these measurement tools have moved into the public policy arena, where they are now used to make programmatic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Care, Preschool Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Goldhaber, Dan – Center for American Progress, 2010
The formula is simple: Highly effective teachers equal student academic success. Yet, the physics of American education is anything but. Thus, the question facing education reformers is how can teacher effectiveness be accurately measured in order to improve the teacher workforce? Given the demand for objective, quantitative measures of teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Merit Pay
Sension, Donald B.; Rabehl, George – Educational Technology, 1974
A discussion of the role of domain-referenced testing in educational accountability. (HB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement
Fox, Charles D.; Tubb, Gary W. – 1979
Before teacher evaluation forms can have any significance for educational research their validity and reliability must be established. This study concerns itself with defining the suitability of the criteria-establishing items that may be contained on teacher evaluations. The areas of inquiry are: the rater (evaluator) difficulty level of each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Efficiency, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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Hofman, Roelande H.; Dukstra, Nynke J.; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
Many instruments for school self-evaluation have become available in primary education; however, they vary in focus, quality and type (e.g., questionnaires, tests, observations, classroom consultation, quality maps, quick scans, etc), creating problems for schools in selecting instruments fitting their specific situations. Research has been…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Accountability
Secolsky, Charles, Ed.; Denison, D. Brian, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The "Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education" provides higher…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Keating, Xiaofen Deng – Quest, 2003
This paper aims to examine current nationwide youth fitness test programs, address problems embedded in the programs, and possible solutions. The current Fitnessgram, President's Challenge, and YMCA youth fitness test programs were selected to represent nationwide youth fitness test programs. Sponsors of the nationwide youth fitness test programs…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Test Items, Physical Fitness, Youth Programs
Wall, Janet – 1978
In September 1977 a reading and language arts test, based upon 40 objectives slated for student accomplishment by the end of grade four, was administered to all Delaware fourth graders. This test, the Objective-Referenced Measure in Communications, was intended to provide entry level diagnostic information to classroom teachers and to inform…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
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Miao, Jing; Haney, Walt – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act has brought great attention to the high school graduation rate as one of the mandatory accountability measures for public school systems. However, there is no consensus on how to calculate the high school graduation rate given the lack of longitudinal databases that track individual students. This study reviews…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Ethnic Groups, Accountability
Hively, Wells, Ed. – 1974
The central assumption in domain-referenced testing (DRT), as presented in this book, is that a domain may be determined which adequately represents a particular universe of knowledge. After a domain has been established, the technological and practical problem of using domain-referenced testing must be solved. This book contains a collection of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests
McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Koretz, Daniel M.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2003
Value-added modeling (VAM) to estimate school and teacher effects is currently of considerable interest to researchers and policymakers. Recent reports suggest that VAM demonstrates the importance of teachers as a source of variance in student outcomes. Policymakers see VAM as a possible component of education reform through improved teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Inferences, Models