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Anannya Chakraborty; Amit Kaushik; Vimala Ramachandran – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2024
India has made significant progress in improving the enrolment of students with disability but still has a long way to go before schools can be called inclusive. Despite the widely acknowledged relevance of assessments in shaping teaching and learning practices, little research has been done in disability-inclusive assessment in the Indian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Formative Evaluation
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
Barry, Damien; Pendergast, Donna; Main, Katherine – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Teacher effectiveness has a powerful impact on student performance and a teacher evaluation process that supports professional growth can be a key lever for improving teaching quality. The purpose of this study was to examine teacher perspectives on the use of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, when used as part of their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers
Govender, Poomoney – South African Journal of Education, 2020
This article reports on Grade 2 teachers' perceptions of formative assessment in explaining the phenomenon of the underutilisation of formative assessment practices in mathematics teaching. A qualitative and interpretative case study investigated two Grade 2 teachers' enactment of formative assessment in priority schools in Gauteng. Data were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 2
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
Alzina, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Understanding the difference between summative and formative assessments is still unclear for many teachers and principals as well as the effects formative assessments have on student learning outcomes. This quantitative study was conducted to explicitly explore formative assessments as a means to improve student learning outcomes, while examining…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students
Ferrara, Angela M.; Lambert, Richard G. – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2015
Based on the recommendations of the K-3 Assessment Think Tank, an assessment design team consisting of current and former educators and early childhood education scholars developed a kindergarten entry formative assessment (KEA) which was piloted in 193 classrooms during the first 60 instructional days of the 2014-2015 academic year. North…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Formative Evaluation, Pilot Projects
Martin, Christie S.; Polly, Drew; Wang, Chuang; Lambert, Richard G.; Pugalee, David K. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examined the influence of professional development on elementary school teachers' perceptions of and use of an internet-based formative assessment tool focused on students' number sense skills. Data sources include teacher-participants' pre and post survey, open ended response on post survey, use of the assessment tool and their written…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Attitudes
Waters, Stewart; Kenna, Joshua; Bruce, Darrian – Social Studies, 2016
The inclusion of technology in the classroom is an increasingly important feature of effective instruction. The implementation of Common Core Standards in many states also requires teachers to consider new pedagogical strategies to support meaningful learning. This article explores the intersection between technology demands and curricular change…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Common Core State Standards, History Instruction, Social Studies
Kuiper, Paula; VanOeffelen, Rachel; Veldkamp, Simon; Bokma, Isaac; Breems, Luke; Fynewever, Herb – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
Using Max Weber's theory of ideal types, the authors classify the formative assessment techniques used by 12 college instructors. Their data reveal two pairs of opposing preferences: (1) highly preplanned vs. highly emergent and (2) focused on individual students vs. focused on the class as a whole. Using interview data, they illustrate how each…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Social Theories, Higher Education
Valois, Robert F.; Lewallen, Theresa C.; Slade, Sean; Tasco, Adriane N. – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report the formative evaluation results from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Healthy School Communities (HSC) pilot project. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized 11 HSC pilot sites in the USA (eight sites) and Canada (three sites). The evaluation question was…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Best Practices, Program Implementation
Faulkner, Val; Oakley, Grace; Rohl, Mary; Lopes, Elaine; Solosy, Alex – Education 3-13, 2012
This article reports a study on the responses of a group of 49 Western Australian middle school teachers to a year-long professional learning experience, entitled the "Making the Links" Project. This project was established to help teachers of various learning areas adapt their practices to significant changes in the educational context.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Literacy, Learning Experience, Educational Strategies
Brancard, Ruth; Quinnwilliams, Jennifer – TESOL Journal, 2012
Teachers in a middle school and a high school with high percentages of English language learners showed evidence of transformative learning during the 2 years in which they collaborated in an ongoing professional development activity called "learning labs," which include focused discussion of observations of colleagues' classrooms.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Laboratories, Professional Development, English Language Learners
Parr, Judy M.; Timperley, Helen S. – Improving Schools, 2010
This article develops the analogy of the "black box" in relation to different levels of a professional development project to understand the nature of learning that results in higher student achievement. Principles of formative assessment are used to frame the on-going, evidence-informed inquiry into learning that operated at each level…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Development, Inquiry, Writing Achievement
Byars, Jennifer Pallon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools are required to meet a range of students' learning needs and effective school leadership is needed for the implementation of pedagogical practices responsive to the challenges of increasing student diversity and academic accountability. Literature on differentiated instruction and its constituent elements suggests differentiation results…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Educational Change