The evidence that teacher preparation programs have an impact on teacher quality is often limited. Progress in research on this topic will remain rather limited in its influence on practice until more proximal measures of teacher education outcomes can be established. The dearth of variables to measure the impact of teacher preparation programs on…

This document includes two technical appendices that accompany the full report, "English as a Second Language in California's Community Colleges." The two appendixes include: (1) Key terms, data and methods; and (2) Figures and tables. [These appendices were written with research support from Sergio Sanchez and Stephanie Pulles. For the…

This study investigated the extent to which student performance and teacher perception of student performance affect placement in eighth-grade mathematics classes for students with disabilities. Authors used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten dataset to investigate how each of the following factors predicted placement in…

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,…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…

In 1976 a survey was done to ascertain teacher and administrator responses to the School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System in six districts in which it was implemented. Research was conducted through written questionnaires. Three districts provided enough data for detailed analysis, and two provided enough data for brief discussion.…

The 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education was designed to provide up-to-date information and to identify trends in the areas of teacher background and experience, curriculum and instruction, and the availability and use of instructional resources. A total of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United…

Describes the consequences of the implementation of several commercially produced individualization systems on teacher beliefs, practices, and on pupil achievement and attitude. (Author/RK)

The second year of the city-wide K-12 Bristol (Connecticut) Career Education Project is evaluated in the final report. The third party evaluator utilized an evaluation strategy identified as Information Based Evaluation (IBE). Rather than focusing on program objectives as the sole criteria for evaluation, the design also uses a series of research…

The document is the first volume of the final report on an inservice training institute in career education; five teams of K-12 educators from three different school districts in one region of Pennsylvania in the three one-week sessions, which were held at four-week intervals. The goals of the institute were to improve the scope of the…

A field test was designed and conducted to examine the effectiveness of Arizona-designed career education units, particularly to examine the units' success in terms of their ability to affect positively students' cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behavior according to expressed performance and behavioral objectives. Eleven career education…

In this study, 3 institutes (summer 1970) for training teachers of migrant children were evaluated. Whether the 3 institutes brought about positive attitude change in the participants was selected as the basis of the evaluation, which used a non-equivalent control group design. There were 3 measures of teacher attitude: an adaptation of a semantic…

In August 1993, a third-party evaluator examined tech prep system development and implementation in Texas public schools and institutions of higher education. The second year of the evaluation focused on the following aspects of Texas' tech prep system: current status of statewide implementation, secondary school counseling, professional…