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Virginia Improves Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Comprehensive Statewide Data System for Teacher Quality
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McLaughlin, Virginia L.; Ward, Thomas J.; Massa, Tod R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
This article describes the development of Virginia Improves Teaching and Learning (VITAL) as a statewide data warehouse focused on teacher education. The VITAL system is a longitudinal data system that tracks individuals from their entry into teacher preparation programs to employment in public schools. The system goes far beyond typical…
Descriptors: Program Development, Databases, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
Status Report on the Virginia Beginning Teacher Assistance Program.
Caldwell, Michael – 1986
This report presents a description of the Virgina Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP), its background and rationale, development, major program assumptions, and major program activities. The Virginia BTAP has three major components: teacher assessment, teacher assistance, and program management. The development and implementation of each…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education
Developing and Implementing a Middle School Program To Improve the Achievement of Students in Grade Six through Grade Eight.
Arrington, Alpheus, Jr. – 1989
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a middle school program in King and Queen County in Virginia's Middle Peninsula designed to improve the achievement of sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students whose achievement scores were consistently lower than national and state averages. A literature review and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Continuity, Elementary School Students