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Christopher Redding; Tuan D. Nguyen – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We estimate the effects of Race to the Top (RTTT) on teacher qualifications, work environments, and job attitudes. Drawing on the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we create a nationally representative data set of public school teachers from 1988 to 2018. We adopt an event study difference-in-differences…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
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Cosner, Shelby; Kimball, Steven M.; Barkowski, Elizabeth; Carl, Bradley; Jones, Curtis – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
Policy makers at the federal level have embraced an educator effectiveness agenda, which in turn has driven many states across the country to rapidly develop and implement new and more complex teacher evaluation systems. It is increasingly clear that the success of these nascent teacher evaluation systems partly depends on the will, skill, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Role, Principals, Organizational Change
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Edmund W. Gordon; Michael V. McGill; Deanna Iceman Sands; Kelley M. Kalinich; James W. Pellegrino; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present alternative views on the theory and practice of "formative assessment" (FA), or assessment to support teaching and learning in classrooms, with the purpose of highlighting its value in education and informing discussions on educational assessment policy. Methodology/approach: The method…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, School Districts, Educational Policy