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Wes Austin; Bengie Chen; Dan Goldhaber; Eric A. Hanushek; Kris Holden; Cory Koedel; Helen F. Ladd; Jin Luo; Eric Parsons; Gregory Phelan; Steven G. Rivkin; Tim Sass; Mavzuna Tureava – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Anecdotal evidence points to the importance of school principals, but the limited existing research has neither provided consistent results nor indicated any set of essential characteristics of effective principals. This paper exploits extensive student-level panel data across six states to investigate both variations in principal performance and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Management Development, Administrator Education
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2023
Up until 2020, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores had increased only slightly since the early 1990s with large achievement gaps for students of color and students living in poverty. Modest gains in fourth grade reading proficiency since 1992 were erased during the pandemic. The insufficient progress in reading even…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Scores
Bobby W. Chung; Jian Zou – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The debate on the stringency of licensure exams for prospective public school teachers is on-going, including the recent controversial roll-out of the educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). We leverage the quasi-experimental setting of different adoption timing by states and analyze multiple data sources containing a national sample of…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Teacher Supply and Demand, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2017
The "Annual Joint Report on Pre-Kindergarten through Higher Education in Tennessee" complies with the requirements established in T.C.A. § 49-1-302(a)(10). State law directs the State Board of Education (SBE) and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) to provide an annual report to the Governor, the General Assembly, all public…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Public Education
Samson, Jennifer F.; Collins, Brian A. – Center for American Progress, 2012
There is a sea change occurring in education across the country in the systematic way that everyone considers "what" students should be learning and "how" teachers should be evaluated. Amidst the sweeping changes in the enterprise of teaching and learning, English language learners, or ELLs, are one subgroup of students that…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2016
The "Annual Joint Report of Pre-Kindergarten through Higher Education in Tennessee" complies with the requirements established in T.C.A. §49-1-302(a)(10). State law directs the State Board of Education (SBE) and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) to provide an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly, all public…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Public Education
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Plake, Barbara S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 1998
Credentialing programs were surveyed to determine the procedures they use to set performance standards on multiple-choice and open-ended assessments. Implications of the various standard-setting approaches for the National Assessment of Educational Progress are discussed, and it is asserted that generalizing from standard-setting in professional…
Descriptors: Certification, Credentials, Elementary Secondary Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions)