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Divya Varier; Sehyun Yun – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
The article describes a systematic review of 109 studies using the data-informed decision-making framework to understand the sources of assessment data and the main purposes for assessment use among early childhood educators. Findings revealed assessment use is driven by the purposes of measuring and monitoring children's learning and development,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Data Use, Decision Making, Early Childhood Teachers
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Ashley Taconet; Shannon Langdon; Christopher Esposito; Valerie L. Mazzotti; Mary E. Morningstar; Allison Lombardi – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
College and career readiness is crucial to success in postsecondary education, employment, and independent living. The College and Career Readiness for Transition (CCR4T) assessment is valid and reliable and can assist in transition planning for students with disabilities. The CCR4T assessment was designed for planning with students with and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Individualized Education Programs
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Francielle Marques; Davinia Hernández-Leo; Carlos Castillo – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2025
Course satisfaction surveys play a relevant role in Higher Education, aiding in the quality assessment of courses and informing academic promotions. Nonetheless, understanding potential biases and influential factors within these surveys is crucial to their equitable utilization within universities. This study delves into a deconstruction of…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Courses
Miguel A. Cardona – Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2022
Data from high-quality State assessments can inform instruction and help school leaders drive resources to the schools and students that need them the most. This dear colleague letter from the U.S. Secretary of Education reminds all who report and interpret student outcomes this year that assessment data has always been meant to be used…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Decision Making, Resource Allocation
Elizabeth A. Tuck – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Assessment literacy is an "individual's understanding of the fundamental assessment concepts and procedures deemed likely to influence educational decisions" (Popham, 2018, p. 2). The ability to make evidence-based decisions has become a non-negotiable skill for all educators. Unfortunately, most teachers do not have the skills or…
Descriptors: Assessment Literacy, Decision Making, Data Use, Teacher Attitudes
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Nyabero, Charles – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this article was to explore on how course evaluation, decision making process, the methodology of evaluation and various roles of evaluation interact in the process of curriculum development. In the process of this exploration, the characteristics the types of evaluation, purposes of course evaluation, methodology of evaluation,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
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Zhao, Xiaoyan; Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Veldhuis, Michiel – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study investigated Chinese primary school mathematics teachers' views on assessment in an effort to determine their assessment profiles. A large-scale questionnaire survey with 1101 teachers from 12 Chinese provinces and regions was carried out. The teachers reported to use assessment on a daily or weekly basis for different purposes. They…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Guenter, Cris – National Art Education Association, 2019
The teaching performance expectations and assignments that preservice art teachers currently address in field experiences and in their coursework are designed to help them meet the expectations of being a quality art educator in the 21st century. These assignments may be very different from the assignments that art educators had in their…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Data Collection, Art Education
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Fowler, Denver J.; Brown, Kelly – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2018
By using equity theory through a social justice lens, the authors intend to highlight how data are currently being used to solve the "what" and not the "why" as it relates to achievement gaps for marginalized students in urban settings. School practitioners have been utilizing quantitative data, such as district and state…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Management Information Systems, Social Justice
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Moss, Pamela A. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The conventional focus of validity in educational measurement has been on intended interpretations and uses of test scores. Empirical studies of test use by teachers, administrators and policy-makers show that actual interpretations and uses of test scores in context are invariably shaped by local users' questions, which frequently require…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Evaluation Utilization, Educational Assessment, Scores
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Copp, Derek T. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Large-scale assessment (LSA) is a tool used by education authorities for several purposes, including the promotion of teacher-based instructional change. In Canada, all 10 provinces engage in large-scale testing across several grade levels and subjects, and also have the common expectation that the results data will be used to improve instruction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incentives, Educational Policy, Mixed Methods Research
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Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Supporting teachers' use of data has become a large part of educational leaders' instructional leadership. Drawing on sensemaking theory, we explore how features of data and teachers' perceptions of them may matter when teachers consider student learning data. Design: The article draws on a 1-year, comparative case study of five…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Low Income Groups