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McKevitt, Brian C.; Mussman, Karin L.; Jessop, Kami L. – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2023
The National Association of School Psychologists' Professional Standards delineate 10 domains of professional practice that are infused into graduate preparation, credentialing recommendations, and service delivery. School psychology graduate students need exposure to, and practice with, these domains. A university-based graduate class in…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, School Psychology, Standards, Consultation Programs
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Carroll, Mike – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This article will map the process of collaborative professional enquiry in an attempt to make sense of the structural elements evident in creating a "Community of Collaborative Professional Enquiry" (CCPE). At the heart of each CCPE examined was a collaborative, improvement-focused intervention that was designed and implemented by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry
Milanowski, Anthony T.; Heneman, Herbert G., III; Kimball, Steven M. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2011
This paper reports on a study of the current state of the art in teaching assessment. The major goal of the study was to examine a sample of assessment systems and then develop a specification for a state-of the art performance assessment system to be used for human capital management functions. The authors hope was that this specification would…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Management Systems, Formative Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Connie Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of my study was to determine if there are any differences in performance measures of student teachers with varying levels of participation in professional development schools. The population in my study was the 2002 through the spring of 2006 kindergarten through 6th-grade student teachers from a small, private postsecondary…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Teacher Education, Student Teacher Evaluation, Student Teachers
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Halverson, Richard; Wolfenstein, Moses; Williams, Caroline C.; Rockman, Charles – E-Learning, 2009
This article describes how the design of digital learning objects can spark professional learning. The challenge was to build learning objects that would help experienced special education teachers, who had been teaching in math classes, to demonstrate their proficiency in middle and secondary school mathematics on the PRAXIS examination. While…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Special Education Teachers
Tannenbaum, Richard J. – 1994
A job analysis was conducted of the knowledge and skills important for the competent performance of beginning business education teachers. The results of this job analysis will be used to define the content domain of the subject assessment in Business Education for the Praxis Series of professional assessments for beginning teachers. A domain of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Beginning Teachers, Business Education, Cutting Scores
Tannenbaum, Richard J. – 1994
A job analysis was conducted focusing on the knowledge important for beginning Earth and Space Science teachers. The results of the job analysis will be used to define the content domain of the subject assessment in Earth and Space Sciences for the Praxis series of professional assessments for beginning teachers. A domain of 292 knowledge…
Descriptors: Administrators, Beginning Teachers, Cutting Scores, Earth Science
Dwyer, Carol Anne; Villegas, Ana Maria – 1993
This paper discusses underlying beliefs about teaching that are related to the assessment of prospective teachers and elucidates some basic beliefs that are guiding the development of new types of assessments for new teachers. These new assessments are called "The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers(TM)."…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beliefs, Cognitive Style, Educational Assessment
Cohen, Carol; Darling-Hammond, Linda; LaPointe, Michelle – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
This paper offers highlights from the final report of Stanford's School Leadership Study, which should be available in January 2007. It discusses various policy and resource factors that enhance or impede the implementation of exemplary programs that develop and support principals. Among the research questions that guided this study were a set…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Professional Development, Principals, Program Implementation
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, 2004
Since the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, much has been said and written about the law by a variety of education observers, practitioners, and policymakers from both sides of the political aisle. With support from the Ford, Rockefeller, and Z. Smith Reynolds foundations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2004
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Art Teachers, Public Education, Teacher Education Programs
Hoines, Marit Johnsen, Ed.;; Fuglestad, Anne Berit, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This document contains the third volume of the proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics. Conference presentations are centered around the theme "Inclusion and Diversity". A total of 65 research reports are presented here: (1) A Teacher's Model of Students Algebraic Thinking…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Psychology