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Todd Grindal; Sarah Nixon Gerard; Anne Partika; Nancy Perez; Gullnar Syed; Morgan Solender; Anna Mark – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2025
Accurate, reliable, and scalable measurement of classroom quality represent a critical tool for ensuring that young children benefit from early learning programs. The Early Childhood Classroom Observation (ECCO) study was designed to better understand how video recordings can support high-quality measurement of pre-kindergarten (pre-K) classrooms,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Video Technology, Preschool Education, Reliability
Salmon, Aliénor – UNESCO Bangkok, 2015
What factors might be causing the low participation of women Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields? What can be done to attract more girls and women into STEM in Asia and beyond? The report, "A Complex Formula. Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia", answers three fundamental…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Career Choice
Hawkinson, Laura E.; Quick, Heather E.; Muenchow, Susan; Anthony, Jennifer; Weinberg, Emily; Holod, Aleksandra; Parrish, Deborah; Meakin, John; Lee, Dong Hoon; Tarrant, Kate; Cannon, Jill S.; Zellman, Gail L.; Karoly, Lynn A. – American Institutes for Research, 2015
The first step in the Validity and Reliability Study summarizes the history and purpose of California's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), reviews findings from other QRIS evaluation studies, and describes the approach to validating the system in California. The majority of this report focuses on providing context for the California…
Descriptors: Competition, Early Childhood Education, Achievement Rating, State Standards
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Gill, Brian; Shoji, Megan; Coen, Thomas; Place, Kate – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
School districts and states across the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Region and the country as a whole have been modifying their teacher evaluation systems to identify more effective and less effective teachers and provide better feedback to improve instructional practice. The new systems typically include components related to…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Test Bias, Test Content, School Districts
Farran, Dale C.; Wilson, Sandra J.; Meador, Deanna; Norvell, Jennifer; Nesbitt, Kimberly – Peabody Research Institute, 2015
The experimental evaluation of the "Tools of the Mind Pre-K Curriculum" described in this report was designed to examine the effectiveness of the "Tools of the Mind" ("Tools") curriculum for enhancing children's self-regulation skills and their academic preparation for kindergarten when compared to the usual…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Preschool Curriculum, Self Management, Academic Achievement
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2010
Teachers are the most important school-related factor for student achievement gains, but evaluation of teacher performance is seldom conducted in any rigorous way. As policymakers call for a better approach to teacher evaluation, the 10-year history of TAP[TM]: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement provides an example of an integrated…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Achievement Gains
Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Xue, Yange; Kopack, Ashley; Induni, Marta; Moiduddin, Emily – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
As part of Phase 3 of the Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study (UPCOS-3), Mathematica Policy Research worked with the First 5 LA Children and Families Commission and Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) to conduct a descriptive study of the characteristics of classrooms in LAUP programs during winter 2010. This study has a particular focus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Glazerman, Steven; Isenberg, Eric; Dolfin, Sarah; Bleeker, Martha; Johnson, Amy; Grider, Mary; Jacobus, Matthew – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a large-scale evaluation of comprehensive teacher induction. The purpose of the study was to determine whether augmenting the set of services districts usually provide to support beginning teachers with a more…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Randomized Controlled Trials, Beginning Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Hulsey, Lara; Aikens, Nikki; Xue, Yange; Tarullo, Louisa; West, Jerry – Administration for Children & Families, 2010
The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) was first launched in 1997 as a periodic longitudinal study of program performance. Successive nationally representative samples of Head Start children, their families, classrooms, and programs provide descriptive information on the population served; staff qualifications, credentials,…
Descriptors: Family Life, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Family Environment
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1981
Data from 8 of the 13 instruments used to provide answers to the decision and evaluation questions for evaluation of the 1980-81 ESEA Title I regular program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District comprise Volume II of the final technical report. A separate appendix for each instrument includes a description of its purpose, procedure,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Martin, Jeanne; And Others – 1980
Data were collected in a teacher effectiveness study on the interaction of teachers and first grade students while the students participated in reading groups within intact classrooms. The teacher behavior variables were then related to students achievement using three units of analysis: class means, reading group means within classes, and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary School Teachers
Layzer, Jean I.; And Others – 1993
This study of 119 preschool programs in 5 states was designed to describe the classroom experiences of economically or educationally disadvantaged 4-year-old children and to examine linkages between characteristics of early childhood programs and the activities of the children and teachers in the classroom. Chapters 1 and 2 describe the context…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Day Care Effects
Ellett, Chad D.; And Others – 1991
This paper presents the results of ongoing analyses of the reliability of the System for Teaching and Learning Assessment and Review (STAR) as a comprehensive measure of classroom teaching and learning for making teacher certification decisions. Focus was on the effects of high stakes assessment conditions for certification on the generalizability…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Indicators, Elementary School Teachers, Evaluation Criteria
Johnson, Glenn Ross – 1979
The objective of this study was to determine whether there were verbal interaction differences between junior/community college and university settings and among disciplines. Theoretically, student achievement and student attitudes are influenced by the types of verbal interactions taking place within classrooms. Forty-eight different classes…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Interaction
Webb, Norman L. – 1980
This project paper reports the interobserver agreements and reliabilities for the observation procedures used in the Descriptive Study of Phase IV of the Individually Guided Education Evaluation Project. Only data from four observers--at the two Developing Mathematical Processes Schools and the two Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Generalizability Theory, Grade 2
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