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Linda McKee, Editor; Sylvia Read, Editor; Debbie Rickey, Editor – Myers Education Press, 2024
"Using Data for Continuous Improvement in Educator Preparation" provides case studies that illuminate and contextualize the ways in which educator preparation programs determine the data they need to improve, collect data, analyze data, share data with stakeholders, and close the loop by making focused improvements based on the data.…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Teacher Education Programs, Data Collection
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Loredana Perla; Laura Sara Agrati; Viviana Vinci; Patrizia Soleti – Professional Development in Education, 2023
This paper explores school principals' and teachers' views of the Italian teachers' appraisal system and related indicators. In particular, the research aimed at examining the opinions of school principals and teachers regarding the domains to be considered for teacher appraisal purposes. An investigation involving 37 school principals and 868 in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Reid, David B. – School Leadership & Management, 2019
This exploratory multi-case study investigates the types of teacher performance data principals consider and collect when evaluating teachers. Data come from public school principals (N = 10) in the U.S. state of Michigan and includes: interviews (n = 30), observations (n = 20), and artifacts collected in 2016 and 2017. Additionally, specific…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Administrator Relationship, School Effectiveness
Ikemoto, Gina; Taliaferro, Lori; Fenton, Benjamin; Davis, Jacquelyn – New Leaders, 2014
School leaders are critical in the lives of students and to the development of their teachers. Unfortunately, in too many instances, principals are effective in spite of--rather than because of--district conditions. To truly improve student achievement for all students across the country, well-prepared principals need the tools, support, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Administration, School Districts, Administrator Effectiveness
Salvesen, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
With the passing of Act 82, the state of Pennsylvania has provided school districts with Danielson's Framework as a tool for principals to evaluate teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived professional development needs of Pennsylvania principals as they implemented the new educator effectiveness system. Three hundred…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Needs Assessment, Personnel Needs
Marker, Kathryn Christner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Because data access may be perceived by principals as overwhelming or irrelevant rather than helpful (Wayman, Spikes, & Volonnino, 2013), data access does not guarantee effective data use. The data-based decision making literature has largely focused on teacher use of data, considering less often data-based organizational improvements for the…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Decision Making
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Ross, Christine; Herrmann, Mariesa; Angus, Megan Hague – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2015
The purpose of this study was to describe the measures used to evaluate principals in New Jersey in the first (pilot) year of the new principal evaluation system and examine three of the statistical properties of the measures: their variation among principals, their year-to-year stability, and the associations between these measures and the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Performance Based Assessment, Administrator Evaluation
Lipscomb, Stephen; Chiang, Hanley; Gill, Brian – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania plans to develop a new statewide evaluation system for teachers and principals in its public schools by school year 2013-2014. To inform the development of this evaluation system, the Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA) undertook the first phase of the Pennsylvania Teacher and Principal Evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Models, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Evaluation
Lipscomb, Stephen; Chiang, Hanley; Gill, Brian – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania plans to develop a new statewide evaluation system for teachers and principals in its public schools by school year 2013-2014. To inform the development of this evaluation system, the Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA) undertook the first phase of the Pennsylvania Teacher and Principal Evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Models, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Evaluation
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Fuller, Edward J.; Hollingworth, Liz; Liu, Jing – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2015
Recent federal legislation has created strong incentives for states to adopt principal evaluation systems, many of which include new measures of principal effectiveness such as estimates of student growth and changes in school climate. Yet, there has been little research on principal evaluation systems and no state-by-state analysis of the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Roddy, Troy Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the self-perceived leadership orientations of headmasters of independent schools. This research expanded the current body of work that supports Bolman and Deal's (2003) multi-frame explanation that leaders use different orientations (frames) to understand their roles, clarify organizational situations, and make decisions. Using…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Metropolitan Areas, Data Analysis, Teacher Certification
Rey, Donna S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to understand the strategies leaders used to learn new roles during large-scale organizational change and to understand what organizations can do to support the learning process. This was accomplished by exploring the experience of 15 school principals who learned to lead in the midst of two complex organizational…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Experiential Learning, Measures (Individuals), Organizational Change
Protheroe, Nancy – Principal, 2009
In the assessment-driven environment of today's schools, questions about effectiveness and impact on student learning often focus on the school as a whole. An often-missed piece is taking a critical look at specific programs and approaches. Program evaluation is a tool that can help do this. Program evaluation can help to answer a range of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Decision Making
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Jacob, Robin Tepper; Jacob, Brian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Teacher and principal surveys are among the most common data collection techniques employed in education research. Yet there is remarkably little research on survey methods in education, or about the most cost-effective way to raise response rates among teachers and principals. In an effort to explore various methods for increasing survey response…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Test Theory, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Vanhoof, Jan; Van Petegem, Peter – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
This article focuses on school self-evaluations (SSE). It addresses whether SSE meets quality indicators and whether differences can be found between the quality judgments of school principals and inspectors. Data stem from two complementary data collections: population data of school inspections and a survey of a representative sample of school…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Groups), Principals, Data Collection
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