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Zhi Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation advances research on evaluation (RoE) through a trio of studies focusing on the role of context and the innovative use of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software in formative evaluation in a qualitative research project. The first article extends Coryn et al. (2017) and elucidates how various contextual…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Computer Software, Inquiry, Computational Linguistics
Abigail Jo Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this inquiry was to conduct a formative evaluation of a rural Pennsylvania school district's dispositional hiring practices. The review of literature includes disposition evaluation methods and summarizes the controversial nature of evaluating dispositions. Interviews of administrators who ask dispositional questions, and newly…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, School Districts, Rural Schools, Personnel Selection
Ball, Rachel Previs – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment literacy of Virginia principals and describe how principals with varying levels of assessment literacy integrate assessment leadership practices that support assessment for learning. This study investigated the differences in assessment literacy between elementary and secondary principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Leadership
Mathena, Ann Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological study was to understand the impact of online grading and standards-based report cards on elementary teacher instruction at a suburban school system. This research study examined teacher instruction and assessment, sharing obstacles, and resources necessary for the effective use of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Report Cards, Elementary School Teachers, Grading
Newell, Heather Coiner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In Pennsylvania, Act 82 of 2012 introduced the Educator Effectiveness system and its foundational belief that student achievement is the result of teachers' high quality instruction and principals' high quality school leadership. With the heightened expectations of principal and teacher accountability for student achievement, principals positively…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
McCormick, Silvana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Program evaluation can play a critical role in supporting high quality implementation of social programs to help them achieve their goal of social impact. Evaluation scholars have developed a wide range of strategies to help build programs' internal evaluation capacity in an effort to support meaningful use of evaluation. However, the evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Institutional Characteristics, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
Doffermyre, Janet Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Formative assessment, assessment for learning, involves checking in with students during the learning process to see if they understand concept or standard, before holding them accountable for mastery and moving on to the next concept or standard. This process can be used in the classroom during the lesson or across a subject area as teachers of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Definitions, Qualitative Research
Welch, Karen P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Formative assessment has been identified as an effective pedagogical practice in the field of education, where teachers and students engage daily in an interactive process to gather evidence of the students' proficiency of a specific learning goal. The evidence collected by the teacher and a student during the formative assessment process allows…
Descriptors: Action Research, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Language Arts
Thompson, Jeff Roland – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A growing body of research evidence has suggested Assessment for Learning (AfL) practices represent a powerful intervention strategy that enhances learning for all students. Yet, grades 7-12 teachers in particular, generally continue to rely almost entirely on traditional summative assessment practices. However, some school principals in the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Formative Evaluation, Change Agents
Morency, Andrea C. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This investigation examined teacher-directed, rather than program-directed, literacy instruction in elementary classrooms in a school where no comprehensive or core reading program was adopted or implemented. Observations, interviews, and artifacts were the data collected and analyzed over a six month period from four teachers during a single…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary School Teachers, Observation, Interviews
Cunningham, Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2017
If blended learning in K-12 schools is to truly provide a student-centered experience, there is a need understand the interplay between teacher beliefs and practices to better support teachers tasked with blended teaching. This case study of a small blended high school answers the question, "How do teachers experience blended teaching and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Experience, Blended Learning, Beliefs
Oyola, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The problem this qualitative case study addressed is the lack of a clear model for flipping all content planning and delivery in elementary classrooms. The purpose of this study was to create a model of how to flip all aspects of content planning and delivery in an elementary classroom. A total of 11 teachers were recruited to participate. All…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Khasanova, Elvira – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Students' development of conceptual understandings is a central goal of mathematics education (CCSS-Mathematics, 2010). Such a challenging, yet ambiguous, goal cannot be achieved without empowering teachers with the knowledge and tools critical for their ability to adequately convey the content, and assess and interpret students' performance. This…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts
Jackson, Viola Towels – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There is a plethora of research pertaining to Response to Intervention (RTI) implementation at the elementary school setting. However, research studies on teachers' perceptions relative to implementing RTI in a middle school tier-based classroom had not been conducted. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine teachers' perception…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Bertram, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to understand how online undergraduate math instructors perceive student learning in the online learning environment. With significantly higher attrition rates in online math courses, researchers should seek to identify instructional elements that could potentially lead to increased…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Study, Mathematics Instruction