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Direct linkCody Griffin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the environment of current Texas Subchapter E University charter schools in Texas and some of the teachers that currently work at those charter schools. Two research questions guided this study: (1) What are teachers' experiences in Texas University Charter schools? How do their experiences compare…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Validity
Peer reviewedMansolf, Maxwell; Vreeker, Annabel; Reise, Steven P.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Glahn, David C.; Gur, Raquel E.; Moore, Tyler M.; Pato, Carlos N.; Pato, Michele T.; Palotie, Aarno; Holm, Minna; Suvisaari, Jaana; Partonen, Timo; Kieseppä, Tuula; Paunio, Tiina; Boks, Marco; Kahn, René; Ophoff, Roel A.; Bearden, Carrie E.; Loohuis, Loes Olde; Teshiba, Terri; deGeorge, Daniella; Bilder, Robert M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Large-scale studies spanning diverse project sites, populations, languages, and measurements are increasingly important to relate psychological to biological variables. National and international consortia already are collecting and executing mega-analyses on aggregated data from individuals, with different measures on each person. In this…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Measurement, Validity
Download full textVan Overschelde, James P.; Wiggins, Afi Y. – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
Teaching does not happen in a vacuum. Teachers teach and students learn within a school. The environment within that school can be either conducive to teaching "and" learning or detrimental to both. The school's teaching and learning environment includes, for example, the instructional expertise and leadership available to teachers, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Teacher Surveys, Validity, Reliability
Fletcher, Jack M.; Miciak, Jeremy – Grantee Submission, 2019
In this report, we summarize research on the identification of SLD and make recommendations for practice. The report begins with a summary of the legal requirements for SLD identification and what constitutes a comprehensive evaluation. It then discusses the attributes of SLD according to different conceptual frameworks and reviews research on the…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Reliability
Bartanen, Brendan; Kwok, Andrew – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
We draw on rich longitudinal data from one of the largest teacher education programs in Texas to examine the properties of rubric-based observational evaluations of preservice teachers (PSTs) during clinical teaching. Using a variance decomposition approach, we find that little of the variation in observation scores is attributable to actual…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Observation, Student Teaching, Gender Differences
Landry, Lindsey N.; Keller-Margulis, Milena; Matta, Michael; Kim, Hanjoe; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Schanding, G. Thomas, Jr. – School Psychology Review, 2022
Acadience Reading (AR) is a screener for early detection of reading problems in elementary students. Limited research exists, however, on its technical adequacy for evaluation of English Learners (ELs). In this study, we tested the long-term predictive validity and diagnostic accuracies of AR and examined the differences between native…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Reading Difficulties, Identification
Bell, Stephen H.; Olsen, Robert B.; Orr, Larry L.; Stuart, Elizabeth A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Evaluations of educational programs or interventions are typically conducted in nonrandomly selected samples of schools or districts. Recent research has shown that nonrandom site selection can yield biased impact estimates. To estimate the external validity bias from nonrandom site selection, we combine lists of school districts that were…
Descriptors: Computation, Validity, Program Evaluation, Sampling
Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn D.; Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Saenz, Laura; Soares, Denise; Davis, Heather S.; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: A social validity measure was used to examine 56 bilingual preschool teachers' perceptions and acceptability of an interactive shared book reading vocabulary intervention implemented in English with Spanish-speaking preschool children (N = 334) in a dual language program model. Social validity outcomes indicated that bilingual…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gentry, Marcia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2016
In this commentary on "Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition" (Collins and Gan 2013), the author discusses the findings in Collins and Gan's study on grouping to provide appropriate-level instruction to promote students' academic growth. This commentary critiques the credibility and validity of the…
Descriptors: Scores, Academic Achievement, Credibility, Validity
Smith, Ann Marie; Salgado, Yolanda – Reading Improvement, 2018
The purpose of this case study was to investigate how an English language arts teacher used young adult literature to help English language learners improve English and literacy comprehension. Through the lens of Anzaldua's (2007) "borderlands", and Rolon-Dow's (2005) "critical care", the authors analyze the case study…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 6, Case Studies, English (Second Language)
Pogrund, Rona L.; Darst, Shannon; Munro, Michael P. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2015
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to begin validation of a scale that will be used by teachers of students with visual impairments to determine appropriate recommended type and frequency of services for their students based on identified student need. Methods: Validity and reliability of the Visual Impairment Scale of Service Intensity…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Validity, Reliability, Special Education Teachers
Xu, Lihua; Wubbena, Zane; Stewart, Trae – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure and the measurement invariance of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) across gender of K-12 school principals (n=6,317) in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Nine first-order factor models and four second-order factor models were tested using confirmatory…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Questionnaires, Transformational Leadership, Factor Structure
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
Research has long been clear that teachers matter more to student learning than any other in-school factor. Improving the quality of teaching is critical to student success. Yet only recently have many states and districts begun to take seriously the importance of evaluating teacher performance and providing teachers with the feedback they need to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Measures (Individuals)
Burke, Mack D.; Davis, John L.; Lee, Yuan-Hsuan; Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Kwok, Oi-man; Sugai, George – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
In this study, the authors examined the concurrent validity, predictive validity, and concurrent and predictive classification accuracy of using schoolwide behavior expectations as a universal behavioral screener. Three elementary schools implementing schoolwide positive behavior supports (SWPBS) participated. Within each school, the entire school…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Student Behavior
Baker, Bruce D. – National Education Policy Center, 2014
The University of Arkansas Center for Education Reform's report on charter school funding inequities proclaims large and growing inequities between school district and charter school revenues, even after accounting for differences in student needs. But the report displays complete lack of understanding of intergovernmental fiscal relationships,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education
