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Derbiszewska, Kasia; Rivera, Connie – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
Adult learners come to the learning experience from diverse backgrounds, myriad experiences, interests, and preferences for perceiving information, engaging with the learning, and expressing what they know. To ensure equitable learning outcomes, these dimensions of predictable variability must be proactively designed for in the curriculum. While…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Individual Instruction, Access to Education, Predictive Validity
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Gargani, John; Strong, Michael – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
In Gargani and Strong (2014), we describe The Rapid Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness (RATE), a new teacher evaluation instrument. Our account of the validation research associated with RATE inspired a review by Good and Lavigne (2015). Here, we reply to the main points of their review. We elaborate on the validity, reliability, theoretical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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König, Johannes; Krepf, Matthias; Bremerich-Vos, Albert; Buchholtz, Christiane – Teacher Educator, 2021
This article proposes a new research approach to teachers' lesson planning. While numerous guidelines have been dominating lesson planning as an object of teacher education, we utilize teacher cognition and expertise research to view lesson planning from a different perspective: We argue that lesson planning typically demands specific cognitive…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Teacher Competencies, Content Analysis, Schemata (Cognition)
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Bogo, Marion; Regehr, Cheryl; Katz, Ellen; Logie, Carmen; Tufford, Lea; Litvack, Andrea – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: To evaluate an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) adapted for social work in a lab course and examine the degree to which it predicts competence in the practicum. Method: 125 Masters students participated in a one-scenario OSCE and wrote responses to standardized reflection questions. OSCE performance and reflections were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Social Work, Practicums
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Stemler, Steven E. – Educational Psychologist, 2012
University admissions tests should predict an applicant's ability to succeed in college, but how should this success be defined and measured? The status quo has been to use 1st-year grade point average (FYGPA) as the key indicator of college success, but a review of documents such as university mission statements reveals that universities expect…
Descriptors: Evidence, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, College Admission
Sadler, Philip M., Ed.; Sonnert, Gerhard, Ed.; Tai, Robert H., Ed.; Klopfenstein, Kristin, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
With an annual yearly growth rate of 9.3 percent over the last two decades, Advanced Placement courses have become a juggernaut in American high school education. AP courses are routinely perceived as an indicator of educational rigor, and many schools push to enroll low-income or minority students in these courses in the hope of preparing them…
Descriptors: High Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Seifert, Tricia A.; Blaich, Charles – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), one of the most widely used annual surveys of undergraduates in the country, is specifically designed to assess the extent to which college students are engaged in empirically vetted good practices in undergraduate education. One of the major assumptions of the NSSE is that in measuring the extent…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Predictive Validity
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Palomera, Raquel; Fernandez-Berrocal, Pablo; Brackett, Marc A. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2008
This article calls for the inclusion of emotional competencies within basic competencies considered in compulsory schooling and in the objectives of pre-service teacher training that is now being designed within the European Space for Higher Education. Toward this end, we review current research on the fundamental role of emotional competencies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Role, Job Performance
Hoepfner, Ralph – 1970
Today's educational system is criticized for neglecting the affective components of education. This evaluation attempts to simplify the task of selecting and incorporating these affective components into an existing system of goals. The best selection of affective goals is one that is inclusive, objective and flexible. The sources used in…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Conferences, Educational Objectives
Coker, Homer; Coker, Joan G. – 1975
The Carroll County Competency Based Teacher Certification (CBTC) Project is a cooperative effort of the Carroll County School System and the School of Education, West Georgia College, intended to develop a plan for identifying and measuring teacher competency areas and related teacher behaviors, and the extent to which these teacher behaviors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Objectives, Educational Specifications
Manning, Winton H. – 1978
Perspectives on testing and affirmative action are considered. The following issue areas are addressed: the validity and fairness of admission tests; information relevant to the admission of students that is not readily scored or quantified and that may be obtained through interviews, recommendations, accomplishments, and other information…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Dowdy, Erin; Kamphaus, Randy W. – California School Psychologist, 2007
There is growing evidence that current classification methods are not consistent with current empirical knowledge of childhood psychopathology and the optimal way to classify school-age children remains controversial. The current study investigated three classification methods (categorical, dimensional, person-oriented) for use in predicting…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Beezer, Bruce G. – Intellect, 1973
The Federal Court decision in the Griggs case may lead to fundamental changes in test practices. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Predictive Measurement
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Rentoul, A. John; Fraser, Barry J. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1980
An exploratory study involving the use of the Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire (ICEQ) in relating learning outcomes to student perceptions of classroom individualization and actual-preferred congruence is reported. Findings suggest actual-preferred interaction was important in predicting cognitive outcomes. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Environment, Educational Objectives, Individualized Instruction
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Lefkowitz, Joel; Fox, Harvey – Personnel Psychology, 1975
The authors of "Differential Validity: Ethnic Group as a Moderator in Predicting Job Performance" (EJ 100 533) replied to criticism of their article by Wayne K. Kirchner (AA 521 804). (RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Definitions, Educational Objectives, Ethnic Groups
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