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Mariana Barragán Torres; Meg Bates; Sarah Cashdollar – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2025
Aggregate national test score data have shown that student learning declined from SY19 to SY21, and that recovery began occurring from SY21 to SY22. To further the understanding of how districts in Illinois' performances have changed since the onset of the pandemic, the authors explored variation in districts' change in standardized test scores…
Descriptors: School Districts, Test Score Decline, Student Improvement, Achievement Gains
Amiee Crystal Richardson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As students transition from elementary to middle school, they often perform at a reduced academic level than their elementary school academic performances. Middle school is the time when students experience changes developmentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. Students will experience personal and academic problems if the school or…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Performance Factors, Academic Achievement
Vitello, Sylvia; Greatorex, Jackie; Shaw, Stuart – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2021
The aim of this report is to build a shared understanding of competence by providing clarity around the concept and its implications for educational practice. The authors present an understanding of competence that is research-based, relevant and appropriate for diverse educational contexts. This will help to create stimulating, thoughtful and…
Descriptors: Competence, Definitions, Educational Practices, Competency Based Education
Philip Ezekiel Dakwo; Yagmur Cerkez; Engin Baysen – SAGE Open, 2023
Every sport requires players to practice constantly to develop skills and the zeal to become a perfect player increases based on the players' anxiety-performance level. This makes humor styles of players a significant counterweight to the severity associated with anxiety-performance in basketball learning practices. As a result, the study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Team Sports, Anxiety
Yirci, Ramazan; Karakose, Turgut; Kocabas, Ibrahim – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study is to examine the current literature and have an insight about coaching as a performance improvement tool at school. In today's world, schools have to survive and keep their organizational success in the highest level because of the high expectations from school stakeholders. Taking place in such a fierce competitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Principals, Job Performance
Andrew Pendola; David T. Marshall; Tim Pressley; Deja' Lynn Trammell – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This project aims to gain insight into the mechanisms by which schools in highly challenging environments avoided learning loss--or even improved--during the pandemic. Using a unique dataset covering multiple levels of school, health, and environmental data, we examine which factors led schools to 'beat the odds' when it comes to learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Practices, Economically Disadvantaged
Rosa, Ricardo – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
Performance-based assessment is unquestionably superior to the instrumental rationality of high-stakes standardized testing and the audit culture that testing regimes inspire. It is more likely to engender opportunities to witness the un-measureable: vision, imagination, and compassion. Performance assessments must be culturally responsive in…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Needs, Performance Factors
Jeffrey R. Laff – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study focuses on the sensemaking of education equity and equity policy of 9-12 grade high school vice principals in Oregon as they implement leadership practices. This case study of vice principal education equity discourse seeks to understand how beliefs, values, and attitudes become enacted in schools' everyday situations through critical…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Comprehension
Thomas, Jacquie – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2018
This article outlines reasons for creating the Excellent Futures Curriculum at Stanley Park High School, Carshalton, the strengths of the curriculum, and its subsequent development.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Relevance (Education), Educational Change, High Schools
McCray, Carissa – Professional Development in Education, 2018
The purpose of this research was to investigate secondary teachers' perceptions of professional development. Results indicated that although teachers perceive professional development as a tool for learning, teacher leadership, data analysis, and collaboration are needed to increase its effectiveness. Results of teachers' perceptions may be used…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
Costantino, Tracie – Arts Education Policy Review, 2018
The recent movement to include art and design in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has made Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) an increasingly common acronym in the education lexicon. The STEAM movement builds on existing models of interdisciplinary curriculum, but what makes the union…
Descriptors: Art Education, Design, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rockey, Marci; Fox, Heather L.; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2018
The Reverse Transfer Illinois project was an exploratory study of the implementation of reverse transfer in the state of Illinois. This article serves as an executive summary for the study, highlighting the primary findings from the study. These findings draw on interview and survey data from 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions engaged in…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Program Implementation, Community Colleges, Barriers
Pappas, James P.; Jerman, Jerry – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter considers many of the major directions, issues, and themes that will play an important part in the future of coaching adult populations.
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Trends, Educational Practices, Trend Analysis
Ye, Yincheng; Singh, Kusum – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to better understand how math teachers' effectiveness as measured by value-added scores and student satisfaction with teaching is influenced by school's working conditions. The data for the study were derived from 2009 to 2010 Teacher Working Condition Survey and Student Perception Survey in Measures of Effective…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Student Satisfaction, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers
Impact of Classroom Design on Teacher Pedagogy and Student Engagement and Performance in Mathematics
Imms, Wesley; Byers, Terry – Learning Environments Research, 2017
A resurgence in interest in classroom and school design has highlighted how little we know about the impact of learning environments on student and teacher performance. This is partly because of a lack of research methods capable of controlling the complex variables inherent to space and education. In a unique study that overcame such difficulties…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Classroom Environment, Student Participation, Learner Engagement