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Kathryn Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Traditional, standardized instruction and assessment practices are insufficient to promote the development of skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication, which have been deemed necessary for post-secondary success (Darling-Hammond & Adamson, 2013; Milner, 2018; Rickles et al., 2019). They also serve to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Skill Development
Puertas, Eloi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
During the past COVID pandemic crisis, teachers of any level must adapt their teaching methodologies to an online learning environment. One of the fears most aspects was the course assessment. Nonetheless, a lot of teachers were attracted to using new tools, that previously exists on their online platforms. In Universitat de Barcelona learning was…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Reibel, Anthony R.; Thede, Matt – Solution Tree, 2020
Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within each chapter, you will find easy-to-implement strategies for strengthening culture, building…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Performance Based Assessment
Merrett, Craig G. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2023
Students should be exposed to open-ended, complex design challenges during their courses to better prepare the students for the design challenges that they will encounter during their careers. This preparation may be achieved by combining flipped classroom instruction, case based learning in an active classroom, and authentic assessments. Between…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Classroom Techniques, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Introductory Courses
Jaquith, Ann; Chavez, Rosa – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2020
Given the common problem of incoherence in district reform efforts, this qualitative study sought to understand what conditions enable (and/or constrain) the efforts of Technical Assistance Organizations (TAOs) to align their products and services with each other and with the specific goals of a district. This paper explores the complexity of TAOs…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Technical Assistance, School Districts, Partnerships in Education
Macfarlane, Bruce; Erikson, Martin G. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
The right to teach at university is a distinctive philosophical and legal conundrum but a largely unexplored question. Drawing on Humboltdian principles, the legitimacy of the university teacher stems from their continuing engagement in research rather than possession of academic and teaching qualifications alone. This means that the right to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Universities, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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
Haris, Ikhfan; Pulukadang, Wiwy Triyanty; Husain, Rusmin; Ilham, Asni; Abdullah, Gamar – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the discussion and reflection of a classroom training activity as a method to improve the quality of competency-based assessment in the courses of Mathematics and "Bahasa Indonesia." The Introduction describes the theoretical perspectives and the concept of competency-based curriculum as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Evidence, Mathematics Instruction
Amrane-Cooper, Linda; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Tait, Alan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2023
In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic the higher education sector, in the United Kingdom and internationally, transitioned to online assessment, at a speed and scale which might have been unimaginable under normal circumstances. The priority in the sector was to ensure that fundamental principles of assessment, including integrity, were…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Change, Integrity
Altrichter, Herbert; Gamsjäger, Manuela; Plaimauer, Christine; Prammer-Semmler, Eva; Steiner, Regina; Zuber, Julia; Handschuh, Lisa – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
During recent years many European countries have modernized the governance of their education systems according to an 'evidence-based model' which, e.g., materialized in new school inspections and comparative performance assessment. Qualitative case study data of six primary and secondary schools is used to explore in-school processes of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Coping, Foreign Countries, Governance
Matthew A. Kraft; Alvin Christian – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
A core motivation for the widespread teacher evaluation reforms of the past decade was the belief that these new systems would promote teacher development through high-quality feedback. We examine this theory by studying teachers' perceptions of evaluation feedback in Boston Public Schools and evaluating the district's efforts to improve feedback…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Educational Change, Public Schools
Tanguay, Carla Lynn – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Policy makers have begun requiring teacher performance assessments, such as edTPA®, with established validity and reliability in teacher education for certification, program approval, and/or accreditation (Darling-Hammond & Hyler, 2013). Proponents of edTPA argue that the measure is an authentic yet standardized way to assess candidate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Preservice Teachers
Adie, Lenore; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2018
The most recent review of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in Australia titled Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers (Craven et al. 2014) heralded the introduction of Teacher Performance Assessments (TPAs) as summative assessments of graduate profession 'readiness'. The conceptualization, research-informed design and implementation of authentic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been documenting what colleges and universities are doing to gather evidence about student learning and helping institutions to productively use assessment data to strengthen undergraduate education. NILOA also has been monitoring how institutions communicate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Matthew A. Kraft; Alvin Christian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
A core motivation for the widespread teacher evaluation reforms of the last decade was the belief that these new systems would promote teacher development through high-quality feedback. We examine this theory by studying teachers' perceptions of evaluation feedback in Boston Public Schools and evaluating the district's efforts to improve feedback…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Educational Change, Public Schools