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Geiger, Tray J.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2017
In this commentary, we discuss three types of data manipulations that can occur within teacher evaluation methods: artificial inflation, artificial deflation, and artificial conflation. These types of manipulation are more popularly known in the education profession as instances of Campbell's Law (1976), which states that the higher the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Data Analysis, Personnel Policy
Mavrogordato, Madeline; White, Rachel S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
As state and federal policymakers continue to adopt more centralized policies, it is increasingly important to understand how policies, particularly those designed to enhance education for underserved students, are implemented locally. We employ a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to investigate the implementation of one policy, that…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Classification, Policy Analysis, Program Implementation
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Curcic, Svjetlana; Lapat, Goran; Susec, Branko; Ignac, Benjamin – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2018
This case study focuses on education in three K-8 schools in Medjimurje County, Croatia. The object of inquiry is the development of successful educational practices for Roma students. Until recently, only a limited number of Roma students completed basic K-4 schooling. Today all students at these three schools complete K-8 education, with some…
Descriptors: Case Studies, School Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Beard, Nicole R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the way in which school boards use data when making decisions, specifically their orientations, perceptions, concerns and priorities around data. This study sought to understand how school boards use data when setting or tracking progress toward goals and aimed following the process of board use of data to…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Decision Making
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Huguet, Alice; Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The use of data for instructional improvement is prevalent in today's educational landscape, yet policies calling for data use may result in significant variation at the school level. The purpose of this paper is to focus on tools and routines as mechanisms of principal influence on data-use professional learning communities (PLCs).…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Information Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Communities of Practice
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Reinhorn, Stefanie K.; Johnson, Susan Moore; Simon, Nicole S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
We studied how six high-performing, high-poverty schools in one large Massachusetts city implemented the state's new teacher evaluation policy. The sample includes traditional, turnaround, restart, and charter schools, each of which had received the state's highest accountability rating. We sought to learn how these successful schools approached…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Policy, High Achievement, Poverty Areas