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Rafael Heller – National Center on Education and the Economy, 2024
For more than 30 years, NCEE has made it a priority to identify and learn from the highest performing school systems in the United States and around the world to uncover valuable lessons and insights for education systems aiming to boost their performance and student outcomes. The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) serves children of…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, School Effectiveness, High Achievement
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Elfarargy, Hamada Ahmed Fahmy; Irby, Beverly J.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Etchells, Matthew James; Villarreal, Elsa; Lunenburg, Frederick C. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
In this qualitative collective case study, we investigated how participating in external longitudinal root cause analyses (RCAs) contributed to the enhancement of instructional leadership practices of the leadership teams in three turnaround elementary schools in Texas. We participated with an external team of expert professors in conducting the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Instructional Leadership, School Turnaround, Educational Practices
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Predanocyová, Lubica; Jonášková, Gabriela – NORDSCI, 2021
Planning is an essential part of the preparation and implementation of the teaching process. Designing and planning education is an important part of the complex professional competencies of teachers, which were the subject of several years of research carried out at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. Scientific research of…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Teaching Methods, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness
Saenen, Bregt; Hatch, Anna; Curry, Stephen; Proudman, Vanessa; Lakoduk, Ashley – European University Association, 2021
This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Educational Policy
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Goodwin, Jeff; White, David J.; Lauxman, Lisa A. – Journal of Extension, 2018
How does an educator ensure that an audience is receiving an intended message? Further complicating this matter, what happens if the audience members' primary language differs from that of the presenter and the use of an interpreter is not feasible? We explore these questions through a case study based on our experience as three Extension…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Extension Agents, Extension Education
Aaron M. Pallas – Educational Leadership, 2016
Teacher evaluation systems can have high stakes for individual teachers, and it's important to ask how new evaluation models--including value-added measures--serve teachers as they strive to improve their practice. The authors interviewed teachers at a high-performing New York City school about their reactions to their value-added scores and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating
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Handley, Fiona J. L.; Read, Ann – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2017
In 2011, Southampton Solent University, a post-1992 university in southern England, introduced a new marking scheme with the aims of changing marking practice to achieve greater transparency and consistency in marking, and to ensure that the full range of marks was being awarded to students. This paper discusses the strategic background to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grading, Strategic Planning, Evaluation Methods
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Nascimbeni, Fabio; Burgos, Daniel; Campbell, Lorna M.; Tabacco, Anita – Distance Education, 2018
Many initiatives exist to increase the adoption of open educational practices (OEP) within universities, but few initiatives start by exploring the capacity of educators to adopt open approaches. This paper addresses this challenge, suggesting that in order to build OEP capacity, universities should build on the existing skills of local champions…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Shared Resources and Services, Instructional Materials, Course Content
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Runge, Timothy J.; Knoster, Timothy P.; Moerer, Deanna; Breinich, Todd; Palmiero, James – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
Schools have limited experience and little guidance to identify and install evidence-based and promising programs and practices/interventions (EBPs) within advanced tiers of School-Wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (SWPBIS). One form of guidance is the Hexagon Tool which can be used to ensure a match between the EBP and student…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Evidence Based Practice, Intervention
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Prud'homme-Genereux, Annie – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month's issue describes incorporating a journal article into the classroom by first converting it into a case study.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Innovation, Journal Articles, Curriculum Enrichment
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Choi, Jinyoung – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
This study explores how teachers implemented an assessment reform in South Korea, with an analysis of different aspects of the reform. Using a mixed method design, this study reveals that the relation between policy and practice depends upon the nature of the changes that reform policies propose. Teachers' implementation varies in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Educational Change
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Occhipinti, Laurie – Thought & Action, 2016
Does assessment change what is being taught? Laurie Occhipinti uses an analogy to answer this question. While conducting research on economic development in a remote rural area of the Argentine Chaco, a community had received some public funds to construct a new community center. They discussed where to place the center. The middle of the village…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Objectives
Villani, Susan; Mundry, Susan; Cobb, Velma; Henry, Susan; Schlanger, Phoebe; Shaffer, Susan; Basterra, Maria del Rosario – Center for Education Equity, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2021
This guide is designed to help teachers and administrators use data to continuously improve equity in schools. Educators can also use data to engage students, parents/guardians, the community, and others who want to make positive changes in schools to increase equity. The purposes of the guide are to: (1) Introduce MAEC's Equity Audit Tools as a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Data Analysis, Audits (Verification), Educational Improvement
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van Winkelen, Christine – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the use of developmental evaluation methods with community of practice programmes experiencing change or transition to better understand how to target support resources. Design/methodology/approach: The practical use of a number of developmental evaluation methods was explored in three organizations over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Communities of Practice, Educational Change
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Blanco-Anaya, Paloma; Justi, Rosária; Díaz de Bustamante, Joaquín – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Modelling-based teaching activities have been designed and analysed from distinct theoretical perspectives. In this paper, we use one of them--the model of modelling diagram (MMD)--as an analytical tool in a regular classroom context. This paper examines the challenges that arise when the MMD is used as an analytical tool to characterise the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Barriers, Models, Video Technology
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