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Direct linkAmrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Close, Kevin – Educational Policy, 2021
Ongoing or recently completed across the United States are a series of lawsuits via which teacher plaintiffs are contesting how they are being evaluated using value-added models (VAMs) as part of states'/districts' teacher accountability systems. To investigate the empirical and pragmatic matters addressed in court, researchers conducted a case…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Court Litigation, Teacher Evaluation, Reliability
Mansolf, Maxwell; Vreeker, Annabel; Reise, Steven P.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Glahn, David C.; Gur, Raquel E.; Moore, Tyler M.; Pato, Carlos N.; Pato, Michele T.; Palotie, Aarno; Holm, Minna; Suvisaari, Jaana; Partonen, Timo; Kieseppä, Tuula; Paunio, Tiina; Boks, Marco; Kahn, René; Ophoff, Roel A.; Bearden, Carrie E.; Loohuis, Loes Olde; Teshiba, Terri; deGeorge, Daniella; Bilder, Robert M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Large-scale studies spanning diverse project sites, populations, languages, and measurements are increasingly important to relate psychological to biological variables. National and international consortia already are collecting and executing mega-analyses on aggregated data from individuals, with different measures on each person. In this…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Measurement, Validity
Moschera, Cynthia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore elementary educators' perceptions regarding what it means to conceptually understand mathematics, the emphasis teachers place on utilizing evidence-based teaching processes, as identified as effective by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and how these perceptions influence their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Achievement Tests
Michele Gaglione – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this non-experimental research study was three-fold: (1) to investigate the relationships among the attributes of creative problem solving ability (divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general knowledge and skills, and environment) and their relationships in the humanities (specifically those that took enrichment…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Class Activities, Enrichment Activities
Download full textSeo, Hyojeong; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Shogren, Karrie A.; Hughes, Carolyn; Thompson, James R.; Little, Todd D.; Palmer, Susan B. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2017
Given the growing importance of support needs assessment in the field of intellectual disability, it is imperative to develop assessments of support needs whose scores and inferences demonstrate reliability and validity. The purpose of this study was to examine the criterion validity of scores on the "Supports Intensity Scale-Children's…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Needs Assessment, Measures (Individuals)
Canfield, Merle L.; Kivisalu, Trisha M.; Van Der Karr, Carol; King, Chelsi; Phillips, Colleen E. – SAGE Open, 2015
The reliability and validity of course grades as measures of general education learning outcomes were assessed using the multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) proposed by Campbell and Fiske. Convergent validity and discriminant validity were assessed on college undergraduate students over a 12-year period. Two procedures were used to test the MTMM. The…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), General Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Undergraduate Students
Sinclair, Jeanne; Lau, Clarissa – Language and Education, 2018
It is common practice for K-12 schools to assess multilingual students' language proficiency to determine language support program placement. Because such programs can provide essential scaffolding, the policies guiding these assessments merit careful consideration. It is well accepted that quality assessments must be valid (representative of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Placement
Callina, Kristina Schmid; Burkhard, Brian; Schaefer, Hillary S.; Powers, Jeremiah; Murray, Elise D.; Kobylski, Gerald; Ryan, Dianne M.; Kelly, Dennis; Matthews, Michael D.; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
Research about the structure of character has largely assessed purported universal attributes. However, character develops within specific social, cultural and institutional contexts. As part of the first wave of a longitudinal study (Project Arete) of character development among cadets at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Longitudinal Studies, Military Training, Higher Education
Schoen, Robert C.; Liu, Sicong; Yang, Xiaotong; Paek, Insu – Grantee Submission, 2017
The Early Fractions Test is a paper-pencil test designed to measure mathematics achievement of third- and fourth-grade students in the domain of fractions. The purpose, or intended use, of the Early Fractions Test is to serve as a student pretest covariate and a test of baseline equivalence in the larger study. In this report, we discuss our…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Fractions, Mathematics Tests, Grade 3
Reddy, Linda A.; Dudek, Christopher M.; Lekwa, Adam – Theory Into Practice, 2017
This article describes the theory, key components, and empirical support for the Classroom Strategies Coaching (CSC) Model, a data-driven coaching approach that systematically integrates data from multiple observations to identify teacher practice needs and goals, design practice plans, and evaluate progress towards goals. The primary aim of the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Coaching (Performance), Models, Formative Evaluation
Russ, Alex; Peters, Scott J.; Krasny, Marianne E.; Stedman, Richard C. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Urban environmental education helps students to recognize ecological features and practices of cities. To understand the value and practice of developing such ecological place meaning, we conducted narrative research with educators and students in urban environmental education programs in the Bronx, New York City. Narratives showed that educators…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Environmental Education, Ecological Factors, Place Based Education
Krasny, Marianne E.; Kalbacker, Leigh; Stedman, Richard C.; Russ, Alex – Environmental Education Research, 2015
Although critiqued for circular reasoning and lack of definitional and analytic clarity, social capital has garnered widespread interest in two areas relevant to environmental education (EE): the impact of family and community-level social capital on positive youth development and of community-level social capital in fostering collective action to…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Environmental Education, Guidelines, Family Role
Xu, Lihua; Wubbena, Zane; Stewart, Trae – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure and the measurement invariance of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) across gender of K-12 school principals (n=6,317) in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Nine first-order factor models and four second-order factor models were tested using confirmatory…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Questionnaires, Transformational Leadership, Factor Structure
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
Research has long been clear that teachers matter more to student learning than any other in-school factor. Improving the quality of teaching is critical to student success. Yet only recently have many states and districts begun to take seriously the importance of evaluating teacher performance and providing teachers with the feedback they need to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Measures (Individuals)
Li, Yue; Krasny, Marianne; Russ, Alex – Environmental Education Research, 2016
Online courses play an increasing role in professional development of environmental educators, yet little information is available on the interactive processes involved in online learning. We examined the relationship of three types of interactions in an urban environmental education online course--participant-participant, participant-instructor,…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Environmental Education, Online Courses, Learning Motivation
