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Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L.; Brown, Ron; Sullivan, Patricia; Ryalls, Kenneth R. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2016
This report describes statistical analyses performed on data collected in the Spring of 2015 from the pilot study of proposed revised and new items in the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) system. Described are the methods employed, results obtained, and decisions made in selecting items for the updated instruments. The procedures occurred…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Rating Scales, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation
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Sorto, M. Alejandra – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
The purpose of the study reported herein was to identify the important aspects of statistical knowledge that students in the middle school grades in United States are expected to learn as well as what the teachers are expected to teach. A systematic study of 49 states standards and one set of national standards was used to identify these important…
Descriptors: National Standards, Data Analysis, Statistics, Academic Standards
McGuinn, Patrick – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2015
In a 2012 paper for the Center for American Progress, "The State of Evaluation Reform," Patrick McGuinn (Drew University) identified the opportunities and challenges facing education agencies in Race to the Top (RTTT) grant-winning states as they prepared for the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems. The 2012 study undertook…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Teacher Evaluation, Beginning Teachers, Program Implementation
Carr, Linda – 1985
This learning unit on looking at figures is one in the Choice Series, a self-learning development program for supervisors. Purpose stated for the approximately eight-hour-long unit is to enable the supervisor to understand information displayed in charts, tables, and graphs; produce charts, tables, and graphs from figures; compare different sets…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Charts, Comparative Analysis
Norris, Eleanor L.; And Others – 1970
National results for writing, one of the three subject areas assessed during the first year of data collection by National Assessment, are presented in this volume. National results for the other two subjects, science and citizenship, are presented in separate volumes. The purpose of this project is to explore whether an assessment of educational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Objectives, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
Hannafin, Michael; And Others – 1986
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of behavioral and cognitive organizing strategies and varied processing intervals on factual and inferential learning. A total of 49 upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, who were randomly assigned to either a cognitive, behavioral, or individual orienting strategy group, received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Analysis
Spaulding, Robert L. – 1972
Effects are reported of a Durham, North Carolina Education Improvement Program (EIP), a five-year compensatory education program, on social, intellectual, linguistic, and academic development of disadvantaged children. Regarding socialization, changes in social behavior are found to be more a function of specific setting variables, especially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Schriber, Peter E. – 1971
Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) is a systematic procedure of constructing and administering longitudinal, criterion-referenced tests. CAM has advantages over typical classroom testing of having well-organized tests, providing course evaluation through pretesting, posttesting, and retention measurement; producing data for continuous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis