Relatively little research has been conducted on the professional satisfaction of principals with recently hired beginning teachers. This study surveyed principals to learn their perspectives on these new teachers in relation to National Board Standards. Data were gathered using an online survey of 423 principals throughout the state of Indiana…

This book provides practical strategies and tools for assessing and teaching even the most hard to reach English language learners across the content areas. Syrja offers educators the latest information on working with ELLs (including using formative assessments) and provides a wealth of classroom-tested models and measures. These tools have…

This study presents the 1973-1974 evaluation findings for the New Jersey individually Guided Education (IGE) process. Student outcomes in the cognitive and affective domain were investigated in the IGE setting and in the control setting. Additionally, factors which may facilitate a long-term commitment to the IGE process were examined. Included in…

This third in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in evaluating student affective performance and developing items and/or devices for assessing affective performance. The terminal objective for the module is to assess student affective (attitudes)…

The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…