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An, Zhe Gigi; Horn, Eva; Cheatham, Gregory A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2019
The purpose of this article is to discuss how a parent coaching framework with the support of several critical components can be applied to build parent competency as a way to address children's challenging behaviors. Collaborative parent-professional partnerships are the underlying theme embedded in the three-cyclical coaching components. Shared…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Parent Education, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Crawford, Angela R.; Johnson, Evelyn S.; Moylan, Laura A.; Zheng, Yuzhu – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
This study describes the development and initial psychometric evaluation of the Recognizing Effective Special Education Teachers (RESET) observation instrument. The study uses generalizability theory to compare two versions of a rubric, one with general descriptors of performance levels and one with item-specific descriptors of performance levels,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Special Education Teachers, Scoring Rubrics, Observation
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Clevenger, Kimberly Ann; Sinha, Gaurav; Howe, Cheryl A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2019
Several geospatial approaches have been used to characterize physical activity during recess using global positioning system (GPS) data. GPS and accelerometer data from 23 children collected during recess were analyzed using four previously used approaches: (1) dot map, (2) fishnet grid, (3) hot spot analysis, which determines clusters of high/low…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Geographic Information Systems
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Stirrup, Julie – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Qualitative research is an inherently complex landscape which continually presents researchers with difficult, ethically challenging dilemmas. This paper foregrounds some of those challenges, experienced during a qualitative research study which focused on preschool children's opportunities to access different forms of play in early year education…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Children, Barriers, Research Methodology
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Reid, Stephen; Shapiro, Leonard; Louw, Graham – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2019
Students' engagement with two-dimensional (2D) representations as opposed to three-dimensional (3D) representations of anatomy such as in dissection, is significant in terms of the depth of their comprehension. This qualitative study aimed to understand how students learned anatomy using observational and drawing activities that included touch,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tactual Perception, Freehand Drawing, Anatomy
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Bywater, Tracey; Gridley, Nicole; Berry, Vashti; Blower, Sarah; Tobin, Kate – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Background: Group-based parent programmes demonstrate positive benefits for adult and child mental health, and child behaviour outcomes. Greater fidelity to the programme delivery model equates to better outcomes for families attending, however, fidelity is typically self-monitored using programme specific checklists. Self-completed measures are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Check Lists, Psychometrics
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Spees, Lisa P.; Lauen, Douglas Lee – American Journal of Education, 2019
Charter school effects remain uncertain. Small lottery studies on high-performing charters produce impressive results, but large observational studies on the full range of charter schools are less encouraging. To make matters worse, these observational studies that aim for representativeness are based on only switchers, a small and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Charter Schools, Observation
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Hong, Yihua – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
This paper focuses on the issue of mentor-mentee match for mentoring beginning teachers in elementary schools. While grade-level match is often an explicit goal of mentor assignment in many existing teacher mentoring programs, empirical evidence is limited regarding its effects on teachers' instructional practices. Data come from a large-scale…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
McNeil, Teneisha Trenese – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The researcher in this study investigated questions that explored (a) what are the frames of reference of mainstream teachers who instruct English learners in the mainstream classroom, (b) how the use of critical reflection and implementation of sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) influence mainstream teachers' efficacy of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classroom Observation Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Kimzey, Barbara R. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
High teacher turnover in urban schools, such as at the school in which this study was conducted, has persistently negatively impacted school reform efforts aimed at closing the achievement gap (Donaldson & Johnson, 2011; Ronfeldt, Loeb, & Wyckoff, 2013). Since effective teachers have the greatest direct impact upon improving student…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Persistence
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Furtak, Erin Marie; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Bakeman, Roger – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Formative assessment is a classroom practice that has received much attention in recent years for its established potential at increasing student learning. A frequent analytic approach for determining the quality of formative assessment practices is to develop a coding scheme and determine frequencies with which the codes are observed; however,…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Formative Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Incidence
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Canenguez, Katia M.; Farley, Alyssa M.; Squicciarini, Ana María; Dutta, Anamika; Simonsohn, Ariela; Holcomb, Juliana M.; Peña, Felipe; Leiva, Loreto; Benheim, Talia S.; Guzmán, Javier; Jellinek, Michael; Murphy, J. Michael – School Mental Health, 2023
Background: Chile's national school-based mental health program, "Skills for Life" (SFL), has demonstrated effectiveness in improving behavioral and academic outcomes in first- through third-grade students. The current study assessed the feasibility and outcomes of SFL's program for sixth- through eighth-grade students. Methods: We…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, School Health Services, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
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Watson, Karen – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
For the children in the inclusive early childhood classroom, there are acceptable, but only limited ways to speak about disability, and sometimes no way to speak. Discourses of tragedy and suffering have a pervasive, and historically resilient, association with disability in education. A subject of tragedy is discursively created in the classroom…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Early Childhood Education, Tragedy, Special Education
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Naujokaitiene, Justina; Tamoliune, Giedre; Volungeviciene, Airina; Duart, Josep M. – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2020
Student engagement is one of the most relevant topics within the academic and research community nowadays. Higher education curriculum, teaching and learning integrate new technology- supported learning solutions. New methods and tools enhance teacher and learner interactions and influence learner engagement positively. This research addresses the…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learner Engagement, Instructional Improvement, Interaction
Patrick, Helen; Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; French, Brian F. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
We used multilevel analysis to examine the predictive validity of scores from the Framework for Teaching (FFT), the observation measure used most often to evaluate teachers' instruction. We investigated how well 81 kindergarten teachers' FFT scores for eight reading and eight mathematics lessons observed throughout the year predicted students'…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Observation, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
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