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Download full textGove, Amber, Ed.; Wetterberg, Anna, Ed. – RTI International, 2011
This book highlights the experience of Liberia in both assessing and improving reading in primary schools. As a result of an Early Grade Reading Assessment, the Ministry of Education and partners, including the United States Agency for International Development, came together to identify and develop strategies for improving reading in schools.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Beginning Reading, Reading Tests
Direct linkErford, Bradley T., Ed. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2016
"Professional School Counseling" is a comprehensive, single source for information about the critical issues facing school counselors today. This third edition of the Handbook integrates and expands on the changes brought about by the ASCA National Model. Revisions to each chapter reflect the influence of the model. Several new chapters…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Teaching Guides, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
Coggins, Celine, Ed.; Peske, Heather G., Ed.; McGovern, Kate, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Learning from the Experts" offers an intimate look at the ways education policies collide with everyday classroom practices and illustrates how thoughtful, solutions-oriented and results-driven teachers are reframing debates in education today. Early career teachers now make up a "new majority" (52 percent) of the workforce.…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Expertise, Data, Decision Making
OECD Publishing, 2013
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) has been planned as an ongoing program of assessment. The first cycle of the assessment has involved two "rounds." The first round, which is covered by this report, took place over the period of January 2008-October 2013. The main features of the first cycle of…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Skills, Test Construction
Murphy, Marilyn, Ed.; Redding, Sam, Ed.; Twyman, Janet, Ed. – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2013
The "Handbook on Innovations in Learning" focuses on innovations--both methodological and technological--in teaching and learning that promise to surpass standard practice in achieving learning outcomes for students. The experts who have written chapters in this Handbook first identify the underlying principles of learning and then…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Outcomes of Education, Best Practices, Data
Ritchie, Sharon, Ed.; Gutmann, Laura, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2013
FirstSchool is a groundbreaking framework for teaching minority and low-income children. This work discusses the research and practice to date that defines FirstSchool as a critical approach to closing the achievement and opportunity gaps. Changing the conversation from improving test scores to improving school experiences, it features lessons…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students
Brown, James Dean, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2012
Rubrics are essential tools for all language teachers in this age of communicative and task-based teaching and assessment--tools that allow us to efficiently communicate to our students what we are looking for in the productive language abilities of speaking and writing and then effectively assess those abilities when the time comes for grading…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Language Tests, Case Studies, Malayo Polynesian Languages
Guthrie, Hugh, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
There has been a continued interest in the numbers and characteristics of those who make up the vocational education and training (VET) sector's own workforce. To address this, the Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) commissioned the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) to undertake three…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Feasibility Studies
Blankstein, Alan M.; Houston, Paul D.; Cole, Robert W. – Corwin, 2010
Offering key concepts about how the informed use of data can translate into highly effective school leadership, this seventh volume in "The Soul of Educational Leadership" series demonstrates how educational leaders can apply data strategically to strengthen school leadership and significantly improve professional learning, students' learning…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Data, Staff Development
Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE (NJ1), 2012
This report commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Getting Down to Facts project, which sought to provide a thorough and reliable analysis of the critical challenges facing California's education system as the necessary basis for an informed discussion of policy changes aimed at improving the performance of California schools and students. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, State Legislation, Educational Policy
Child Trends, 2014
Integrated student supports (ISS), sometimes referred to as integrated student services, represents an emerging field of practice that aims to address persistent disparities in educational achievement and attainment. ISS is a school-based approach to promoting students' academic achievement and educational attainment by coordinating a seamless…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Student Personnel Services
Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea, Ed.; Rutledge, Stacey A., Ed.; Jacobsen, Rebecca, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"The Infrastructure of Accountability" brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education. Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have been utterly reshaped by the demands of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data, Information Utilization, Educational Change
Leal, David L., Ed.; Meier, Kenneth J., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
Education is one of the most important public policy issues facing Latinos in the United States today, but the political dynamics behind Latino school achievement and failure are often misunderstood--and at times, overlooked altogether. In twelve revealing essays, "The Politics of Latino Education" brings together 23 accomplished and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Bilingual Education, Standardized Tests
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The TIMSS 2011 International Database includes data for all questionnaires administered as part of the TIMSS 2011 assessment. This supplement contains the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires and curriculum questionnaires in the following 10 sections: (1) Fourth Grade Student Questionnaire; (2) Fourth Grade Home…
Descriptors: Background, Questionnaires, Test Items, Grade 4
Peer reviewedZapata-Rivera, Diego, Ed.; Zwick, Rebecca, Ed. – ETS Research Report Series, 2011
This volume includes 3 papers based on presentations at a workshop on communicating assessment information to particular audiences, held at Educational Testing Service (ETS) on November 4th, 2010, to explore some issues that influence score reports and new advances that contribute to the effectiveness of these reports. Jessica Hullman, Rebecca…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Graphs, Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis
