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Boström, Erika; Palm, Torulf – Assessment Matters, 2019
Formative assessment has been shown to have the power to positively affect student achievement, but professional-development initiatives for teachers to substantially develop their formative assessment practices have been frequently unsuccessful. In this study, a random selection of Year-7 teachers participated in a professional-development…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes
Weaver, Kari D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of short professional development interventions, covering core concepts in teaching and learning, on the self-efficacy of academic librarians in the teaching role. The participants in this study were six academic librarians at a large, research-intensive university in Canada for whom instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Self Efficacy, Teacher Role
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Boström, Erika; Palm, Torulf – Teacher Development, 2020
Research has identified characteristics of professional development programmes (PDPs) that are important for accomplishing change in teachers' practice and student achievement. However, these characteristics do not predict and guarantee the outcomes of a specific PDP. In the present study the authors investigated whether the expectancy-value…
Descriptors: Expectation, Value Judgment, Theories, Professional Development
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Tigelaar, Dineke; Sins, Patrick – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Objective: In the past decade, several authors have advocated that formative assessment programmes have an impact on teachers' knowledge. Consequently, various requirements have been proposed in the literature for the design of these programmes. Only few studies, however, have focused on a direct comparison between programmes with respect to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Knowledge Level, Reflection, Skill Development
Greenleaf, Cynthia; Katz, Mira-Lisa; Stump, Mary; Litman, Cindy; Loyd, William – WestEd, 2020
Reading Apprenticeship is a research-based professional learning model and instructional framework designed by the Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) at WestEd to improve student literacy and learning. Based on understandings of the close relationship between curricular reform and professional development (Heller & Greenleaf, 2007), Reading…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Development, Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Qablan, Ahmad Mohammad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
This study aimed at evaluating the impact of Queen Rania Teacher Academy science teachers professional development program's activities on teachers' instructional practices by identifying the successes, challenge and ways to sustain the exemplary reformed instructional practices in the science classroom. The idea is to analyze participating…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Attitudes
Elaine Lin Wang; Heather L. Schwartz; Monica Mean; Laura Stelitano; Benjamin K. Master – RAND Corporation, 2019
Since 2004, the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) has offered the Executive Development Program (EDP), a leadership program for sitting school principals that is typically delivered in two-day workshops once per month over 12 months. From its inception through 2018, 15,000 principals across 23 states have participated in the EDP.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Management Development, Principals, Program Effectiveness
Robinson, Ann; Cotabish, Alicia; Wood, Betty K.; O'Tuel, Fran S. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
When well-considered and grounded in current knowledge, program evaluations of services to gifted learners can be a powerful tool for increasing practitioners' knowledge and self-efficacy, and for effecting positive programmatic changes. The Arkansas Evaluation Initiative (AEI) in Gifted Education, a Jacob K. Javits-funded project, was implemented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Program Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Attitude Change
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Randel, Bruce; Apthorp, Helen; Beesley, Andrea D.; Clark, Tedra F.; Wang, Xin – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors describe an impact study of Classroom Assessment for Student Learning (CASL), a widely used professional development program in classroom and formative assessment. Researchers randomly assigned 67 elementary schools to receive CASL materials or continue with regularly scheduled professional development. Teachers in CASL schools formed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Hutson, Martha; Rutherford, David J.; Foster, Ellen J.; Richardson, Bobbie – Geography Teacher, 2014
This article presents one approach to providing geography education training to pre-service teachers--a two-day, professional development conference dedicated to preservice teachers and provided to them at no cost. The authors begin by explaining more fully the need for reaching pre-service teachers with good training in geography education. A…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development, Formative Evaluation
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Aaberg, Wayne; Thompson, Carla J. – Performance Improvement, 2012
Determining the worth and effectiveness of training used within a military environment is the same accountability responsibility that educational organizations, businesses, and social agencies are charged with for improving programs and services to society. The need for accountability implies the process of evaluation, particularly in governmental…
Descriptors: Military Training, Program Effectiveness, Social Agencies, Accountability
Thum, Y. M.; Tarasawa, B.; Hegedus, A.; Yun, X.; Bowe, B. – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
In partnership with Joint School District 2 in Meridian, Idaho, this theory-driven study assessed the impact of Keeping Learning on Track® (KLT™), a professional development program pioneered by Dylan Wiliam and his colleagues at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). A team of Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) researchers surveyed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement, School Districts
Frohbieter, Greta; Greenwald, Eric; Stecher, Brian; Schwartz, Heather – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
This study analyzed three different middle school mathematics formative assessment programs, examining how features of each program were associated with the information they provided to teachers and the manner in which teachers used the information. The research team found considerable variation in the information teachers obtained from each…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Familiarity, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers
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Mastrorilli, Tara M.; Harnett, Susanne; Zhu, Jing – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
The "Arts Achieve: Impacting Student Success in the Arts" project involves a partnership between the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and five of the city's premier arts organizations. "Arts Achieve" provides intensive and targeted professional development to arts teachers over a three-year period. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Art Education, Professional Development, Art Teachers
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Kinnie, Jim – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
This article explores various models of online faculty development programs as described in the literature, and finds that they fall into a wide range of models from those that are highly structured to more organically grown examples. The Online Teaching Fellows program at the University of Rhode Island is shown to be an example of an…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Information Literacy, Online Courses, Best Practices
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