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Ashcraft, Carrie Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation reviews current policies regarding Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) evaluation and addresses "accountability era" influences which often minimize factors related to equity and promote a limited view of teacher and school "effectiveness." Integrated concept mapping is proposed as an alternative method of…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Program Evaluation, Teacher Education Programs, Student Evaluation
Houston Independent School District, 2023
This report presents changes in educator and student outcomes for HISD, Achieve 180 Program schools, and non-Achieve 180 comparison schools which were Title I, Part A campuses for the fifth year of the program. Positive effects of the Achieve 180 Program were observed although there were still challenges which Achieve 180 Program schools needed to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, School Districts, School Turnaround
Paulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
Brady, Michael P. – Educational Review, 2021
Teacher preparation programmes (TPPs) find many ways to shape the development of their teacher candidates while bridging the research to practice gap in university and school partnerships. Recently, accountability models built on high-stakes standardised student assessments (Value-Added Models [VAM]) have been mandated as a way to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness
Florida Department of Education, 2021
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this technical assessment paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Adult Education, Educational Assessment, State Policy
Curren, Randall; Kotzee, Ben – Theory and Research in Education, 2014
This article explores some general considerations bearing on the question of whether virtue can be measured. What is moral virtue? What are measurement and evaluation, and what do they presuppose about the nature of what is measured or evaluated? What are the prospective contexts of, and purposes for, measuring or evaluating virtue, and how would…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Moral Values, Psychometrics
Houston Independent School District, 2021
This report describes the Achieve 180 Program in Year 3, the last of the three years initially planned for this comprehensive program. The 54 participating schools received Texas Education Agency campus accountability ratings of "Improvement Required" (IR), "Not Rated," or "Former Improvement Required". The 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Improvement, Accountability
Custer, Samantha; King, Elizabeth M.; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan; Read, Lindsay; Sethi, Tanya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
Governments, organizations, and companies are generating copious amounts of data and analysis to support education decision-making around the world. While continued investments in data creation and management are necessary, the ultimate value of information is not in its "production," but its "use." Herein lies one of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Hundley, Stephen P., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2017
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Lessons Learned: Graduate Student Assessment (Michael Cherry and Lesley Page); (2) Assessing the Assessor: A Response to Fulcher and Bashkov's "Do We Practice What We Preach? The Accountability of an Assessment Office" (Christine Robinson, John G. M.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluators, Accountability
Florida Department of Education, 2019
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection and use of appropriate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Assessment, State Policy, Program Evaluation
Brodersen, R. Marc; Yanoski, David; Hyslop, Alisha; Imperatore, Catherine – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Career and technical education (CTE) programs of study are subject to rigorous state and federal accountability systems that provide information on key student outcomes. However, while these outcome measures can form a basis for identifying high- and low-performing programs, they are insufficient for answering underlying questions about how or why…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Accountability, Program Evaluation
Florida Department of Education, 2018
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. Rule 6A-6.014, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), titled, General Requirements for Adult General Education Programs, requires all adult education programs to report all student measurable educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, State Policy, Educational Assessment, Program Evaluation
Fairman, Janet; Johnson, Amy; Eberle, Francis – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2017
Part I summarizes key topics of federal education policy articulating accountability requirements for state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs, or school districts). In that section we describe major goals of the legislation and which components are the same or changed in the federal law. The findings are grouped into…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability, State Departments of Education
O'Toole-Curran, Janette J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The descriptive survey employed in this study explored current assessment practices of learning outcomes, including the resources used and the learning outcomes assessed for student programming board leaders. The researcher collected data through document review and phone interviews. She interviewed 21 student activities and union advisors who are…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Unions, Faculty Advisers, Student Leadership
Ross, Craig M.; Young, Sarah J.; Sturts, Jill R. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2012
Institutions of higher education are increasingly being held more accountable for assessing student learning both in and out of their classrooms along with reporting results to their stakeholders. The purpose of this study, which examined assessment of student learning outcomes in undergraduate park and recreation academic programs, was two-fold:…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Leisure Education, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education