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Direct linkFonseca, Susana; Lobo Fernandes, Joana – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Providing higher education institutions (HEIs) with a tool for self-assessing their social responsibility (SR) that generates the information and knowledge necessary to a strategic approach to adopting the Green Paper recommendations about the SR of HEIs. Setting out the collaborative policy development process to construct the tool…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Sustainability, Alignment (Education), Pilot Projects
Download full textMakkonen, Reino; Tejwani, Jaclyn; Rodriguez, Fernando, Jr. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2015
Approximately 30 states are now adopting teacher evaluation policies that include student learning objectives (SLOs), which are classroom-specific student test growth targets set by teachers and approved (and scored) by principals. Today state and district leaders are trying to determine the appropriate level of guidance and oversight to provide…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Pilot Projects, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Strickland, Laura Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study is to answer the question: How do pilot users of the Danielson Evaluation System perceive this model in two mid-south high schools? The study describes the perceptions of teachers and administrators who implemented the Danielson Teacher Evaluation Model. The primary focus was on teachers and administrators experience with…
Descriptors: High Schools, Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Models
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
Education programs across 19 states are piloting a performance-based assessment for teacher-candidates that potentially could serve as a common prelicensing measure for new teachers. Based on a test in use in about 30 education schools in California, the Teacher Performance Assessment includes a "teaching event" requiring teachers to…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests, Evaluation Methods
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2013
The Department of Education (Education) created Race to The Top (RTT) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide incentives for states to reform K-12 education in areas such as improving the lowest performing schools and developing effective teachers and leaders. In 2010, Education awarded 12 states nearly $4 billion in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Educational Legislation
Gasoi, Emily – Schools: Studies in Education, 2009
In the current climate of high stakes testing and tough love rhetoric, many educational stakeholders have become increasingly reliant on standardized test scores to determine whether or not individual students, teachers, and schools--and even entire districts and states--are successful. In contrast to the black and white picture that test-driven…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Accountability, Values, Educational Principles
Stover, Del – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In this article, the author discusses the Dubois school's important discoveries about their instructional program after taking a closer look at the year-by-year academic progress of individual students and their participation in a pilot project of the Pennsylvania education department that provides a value added assessment of student test scores.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Pilot Projects, Models, Federal Legislation
LeMahieu, Paul G. – School Administrator, 1992
Since 1987, Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Public Schools' Propel project has been using student portfolios to integrate assessment with learning and is now piloting portfolio assessment for public accountability. Unlike Vermont's system, which asks for students' best work, Pittsburgh's assessment reflects what the community typically expects from its…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment
Jones, Richard M.; Nielsen, Joan I. – Education Canada, 1994
Development of a comprehensive indicators program will enable evaluation of the effectiveness of educational reform in Saskatchewan (Canada). Pilot projects in three school districts representing large urban, small urban, and rural settings began during the 1992-93 school year and the first annual provincial indicators report was issued in 1994.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Indicators
Fletcher, Mick – 2000
In September 1999, a pilot program of Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) was introduced in 15 local education authorities (LEAs) in England to provide payments to students aged 16-19 who are from low-income families and who are attending full-time courses in schools and colleges. Participants are entitled to 2 years' support and must be…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, College Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Redfield, Doris L.; And Others – 1989
A model is presented for including student outcome measures on teacher evaluation systems when there are needs for both formative and summative evaluation data. The experiences of Kentucky and Georgia provided bases for the development of the dual purpose assessment model. Pilot tests in Kentucky and Georgia were specific to the top-down…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Condelli, Larry; Baker, Holly – 2002
This paper summarizes the standardized procedures and psychometric standards states must follow in developing performance-based assessment. The National Reporting System (NRS), which serves as the accountability system for federally funded adult education and literacy programs, requires that states have their local programs assess educational gain…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Gains, Adult Basic Education
Office of Inspector General (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
The Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), awarded its final round of Job Training Partnership Act, Title IV, Pilot and Demonstration Grant Program funds for the Youth Opportunity Area Out-of-School Youth (YOA OSY) program in April 1999. Four of the 5 programs were audited in 2000. This audit is a follow-up to the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, Adult Education, Audits (Verification)
