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Henning, Nick; Dover, Alison G.; Dotson, Erica; Agarwal-Rangath, Ruchi; Clayton, Christine D.; Donovan, Martha K.; Cannon, Susan O.; Cross, Stephanie Behm; Dunn, Alyssa Hadley – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) provided a commentary on the manuscripts in the first part of this special issue, which highlighted the benefits of edTPA and the necessity for such assessment programs to improve teacher education and strengthen teaching practices. In turn, the authors responded to the SCALE commentary.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Reader Response
Ferrara, Steve – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Test security is not an end in itself; it is important because we want to be able to make valid interpretations from test scores. In this article, I propose a framework for comprehensive test security systems: prevention, detection, investigation, and resolution. The article discusses threats to test security, roles and responsibilities, rigorous…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Program Improvement
Castleman, Ben – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Federal Programs, Federal Aid
West, Chad; Clauhs, Matthew – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
This article examines ways in which music education advocacy efforts have become disconnected from the unified visions and declarations of music educators espoused in the Tanglewood and Housewright declarations and are thus reifying the disconnect between what we value and what we say we value. We first analyze the policies posited by the recently…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Advocacy, Program Improvement
David, Kevin M.; Sivadon, Angela D.; Wood, Donna G.; Stecher, Sarah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In 2007, Tulsa Community College (TCC) joined the national Achieving the Dream (ATD) network, which is dedicated to developing data-informed interventions to increase persistence and completion among community college students. TCC's participation in the national initiative set it down a path for positive institutional change, but it was the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Program Improvement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Ertesvåg, Sigrun K. – Journal of Educational Change, 2015
Bullying is one of the most challenging issues facing students and schools worldwide. The disastrous consequences for victims and offenders are experienced daily by teachers and students and documented by numerous studies. The demand for evidence-based practice (EBP) in schools' anti-bullying work has increased in the last decade, consequently…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Program Improvement, Research Needs
Wei, Ruth Chung; Pecheone, Raymond L.; Wilczak, Katherine L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, large-scale assessments have come to play a central role in federal and state education accountability systems. Teachers and parents have expressed a number of concerns about their state testing programs, such as too much time devoted to testing and the high-stakes use of testing for teacher evaluation.…
Descriptors: State Programs, Testing Programs, State Standards, Testing Problems
Mitchel, Ashley LiBetti; King, Melissa Steel – Bellwether Education Partners, 2016
Every year, new teachers collectively spend about $4.8 billion on their training requirements, nearly all of which goes to teacher preparation programs. Unfortunately, it is unclear whether that is money well spent. Despite decades of research and ongoing calls to improve the quality of teacher training, we still do not know how to sculpt an…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Action Research, Program Improvement, Evidence Based Practice
Gomez, Rebecca E.; Kagan, Sharon Lynn; Fox, Emily A. – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Resulting from a fragmented landscape of policies for and uneven investments in the early childhood education (ECE) field in the United States, the qualifications of the ECE teaching workforce are typically quite low. This article first reviews the history and status of the ECE teaching workforce in the United States, focusing on the evolution of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Qualifications
O'Neill, Marnie – Higher Education Studies, 2012
This case study of a Doctor of Education program in a transnational setting is contextualized in Australian national policies for international higher education and influences of regionalization and globalization. The doctorate was designed to meet aspirations of professional practitioners in Australia and South East Asia where the School had…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Doctoral Programs, Professional Education, Partnerships in Education
Esch, Camille; Koppich, Julia; Seder, Richard – New America Foundation, 2011
Teacher effectiveness is known to be a critical factor in student learning and success. California has made some notable efforts to strengthen teaching, but the most coherent state-level initiatives have been limited to the earliest stages of teachers' careers. After the credentialing and induction phase, state policy does virtually nothing to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Credentials, Teacher Competencies, State Policy
Junge, Melissa; Krvaric, Sheara – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2012
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a federal program to provide additional assistance to academically struggling students in high-poverty areas, has long contained a provision called the "supplement-not-supplant" requirement. This provision was designed to ensure Title I funds were spent on extra educational services…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change
Stevens, Charlotte; Kelly, Patrick – Open Learning, 2012
How do open and distance learning institutions review and renew themselves to ensure their continued fitness for purpose? Here we report on the work of a change team in the UK Open University, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning created to examine, innovate and improve student support. The existence of the Centre for five years from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Teamwork, Change Strategies
Pivot Learning Partners, 2012
Situated in the heart of the fertile San Joaquin Valley twenty miles north of Fresno, the city of Madera has a population of 56,710 people. Agriculture is the driving force behind the local economy; the area produces more than 100 crops including raisin grapes, almonds, figs, pistachios, alfalfa, corn, milk, cattle and poultry. The total value of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Program Improvement, Standardized Tests, Population Growth
Hourigan, Clare – Journal of Institutional Research, 2011
Academic standards and performance outcomes are a major focus of the current Cycle 2 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) audits. AUQA has clearly stated that universities will need to provide "evidence of setting, maintaining, and reviewing institutional academic standards and outcomes" (2010, p. 27). To do this, universities…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Admission Criteria, Program Improvement, Data Analysis