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Rhode Island Department of Education, 2019
Rhode Island is committed to ensuring that all educators receive fair, accurate, and meaningful educator evaluations that provide information that can help all support professionals improve and refine their practice. Currently, local education agencies (LEAs) in Rhode Island may submit a district-designed model for approval that complies with the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, School Personnel, School Nurses
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2018
Rhode Island is committed to ensuring that all educators receive fair, accurate, and meaningful educator evaluations that provide information that can help all support professionals improve and refine their practice. This document describes the process and basic requirements for the Rhode Island Model Support Professional Evaluation and Support…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, School Personnel, School Nurses
Rhode Island Department of Education, 2015
Rhode Island educators believe that implementing a fair, accurate, and meaningful evaluation and support system for support professionals will help improve student outcomes. The primary purpose of the Rhode Island Model Support Professional Evaluation and Support System (Rhode Island Model) is to help all support professionals do their best work…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Objectives, School Personnel, School Nurses
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Snyder, Lisa M. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2010
The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of an online reading teacher and literacy instructor training program. A mixed-method research design was used in conjunction with the improvement-focused model of program evaluation to help the researcher identify strengths and weaknesses of the program. Overall, data showed the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Literacy Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation
Samples, Tammy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Education reform has been on a new path over the last 15 years; a path that leads to more accountability, more choice for students and parents, highly qualified teachers, as well as, best practices in instruction. In an effort to move along the path of reform and as a result of previous reform, the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA reviewed the field…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Counties, Educational Change
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Pruisner, Peggy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
As a result of the Reading First Program of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the view of reading has narrowed. Individual state's Reading First professional development programs, and hence reading teachers across the United States, have spent the six years since the funding of the program in 2002 focusing beginning and developmental reading on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Reading Research, Reading, Federal Legislation
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Hew, Khe Foon – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2009
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the updated DeLone and McLean's information systems (D&M IS) model can identify the determinants of success of online communities in terms of member loyalty (Lin and Lee 2006). This study is similarly concerned with the challenge of identifying the determinants of success of online communities, but it…
Descriptors: Nurses, Internet, Professional Development, Content Analysis
Hall, Linda DeZell; O'Neill, Kevin J.; Hasbrouck, Jan E.; Parker, Richard I. – 2003
In 1999 the Texas Legislature provided for the creation of the Master Reading Teacher (MRT) Certificate to address several issues. MRTs primary duties are to: serve as reading teachers; consult with and mentor other teachers; and provide research-based information and training. In September 2001 the Texas Education Agency asked Dr. Jan Hasbrouck…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Mail Surveys