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Mark White; Bridget L. Maher – Educational Research, 2024
Background: Many education systems internationally expect schools to participate in continuous instructional improvement programmes. One tool used within these processes is the structured, rubric-based classroom observation, focused on the evaluation of teaching. Such observations are a common feature of formative evaluation systems, teacher…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Scoring Rubrics, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Education
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Gill, Brian; Shoji, Megan; Coen, Thomas; Place, Kate – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
School districts and states across the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Region and the country as a whole have been modifying their teacher evaluation systems to identify more effective and less effective teachers and provide better feedback to improve instructional practice. The new systems typically include components related to…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Test Bias, Test Content, School Districts
Neergaard, Laura; Smith, Tom – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Observation measures of instructional quality tend to fall into two broad categories--those for use across subject areas and those intended for use in specific subject areas. The move toward content-specific measures is a result of research suggesting that effective teaching looks different across subject areas and that both content knowledge and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment
Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff. – 1972
This document contains an instrument and procedures designed for the observation of Teacher Corps interns. The instrument covers four areas: (a) academic preparation, instructional preparation, and preparation to meet community needs and expectations; (b) instructional performance and performance in the community; (c) student success and…
Descriptors: Lesson Observation Criteria, Measurement Instruments, Observation, Teacher Evaluation
Webb, Jeaninne Nelson; Brown, Bob Burton – J Teacher Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Lesson Observation Criteria, Observation
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Frudden, Sally J. – Education, 1984
School administrators served as subjects to determine the effectiveness of teacher evaluation procedures. Examination of teacher's lesson plan had no effect on teacher assessment. However, prior assessment of lesson plan via an evaluation instrument improved effectiveness of evaluation of teacher's task sequencing skills, subject knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation, Lesson Observation Criteria
Georgia State Univ., Atlanta. Coll. of Education. – 1987
The manual describes the differences between low-inference observation and rating scales when evaluating teachers. Procedures for observing are set forth. The body of the manual defines and exemplifies the 115 items used on the observation instrument as well as the use of two other instruments used before and after the observation, i.e., the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Lesson Observation Criteria
McBeath, Marcia; Carter, Delores – 1981
This paper describes attempts to evaluate whether teachers who had participated in a staff development program could apply what they had learned in a controlled, specific situation significantly better than teachers who had not had the training. The program under evaluation provided training in peer supervision and evaluation. Test results…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Teacher Education, Lesson Observation Criteria
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Jarchow, Elaine McNally – Education, 1984
To determine differences in assessment, preservice teachers and school administrators were asked to evaluate a teacher's lesson plans and videotaped teaching session. Findings indicated rating differences for teacher communication and organization, feedback, content selection, and student evaluation and rating similarities for teacher ability to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Evaluation, Lesson Observation Criteria, Observation
Ortiz, Flora Ida – 1982
Based on the view that instructional supervision means the improvement of both teachers and instruction, this paper attempts to show how instructional supervision is managed and administered by one principal. Data were gathered through observation and interviews conducted for a related study by the author on teacher rewards. The bulk of the paper…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques
Dungan, Sherry – 1993
The study reported here analyzed the interaction performance of instructional supervisors as they conducted postobservation conferences with teachers. Seven supervisor-teacher pairs consisting of varying combinations of experienced, beginning, and novice teachers and supervisors were examined, to determine status indicators such as jargon use,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Lesson Observation Criteria
Adamsky, Richard A.; And Others – 1980
This module is one in a series of thirteen specifically designed to help vocational educators develop the skills needed to function as resource persons to learners enrolled in field-centered competency-based teacher preparation programs. (These learners are persons with appropriate occupational experience and competence who are being prepared as…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Observation Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Learning Activities
Biestman, Margot; And Others – 1973
Detailed materials for the assessment of language use in a responsive environment are provided for teachers and teaching assistants. Part A consists of a manual and guide for language assessment. A brief account of the responsive model's approach to language instruction is given. Additional sections introduce and describe the observation and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Formative Evaluation
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS SHORT-TERM EVALUATION OF THE MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM IN 21 NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ASSESSED THE MES INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM (1) OBSERVATIONAL VISITS TO CLASSROOMS BY TWO-MEMBER TEAMS OF EDUCATORS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, (2) STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Arithmetic, Attitudes