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Haertel, Edward – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background:This brief reflection on the work of the Gordon Commission calls out significant themes and implications found in the various papers authored by the commissioners and other scholars, especially those included in this special issue of Teachers College Record. Purpose: The forward-looking vision of the Gordon Commission is contrasted with…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Planning Commissions
Dubova, M. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Primary education in Russia has failed to adapt to the needs of post-Soviet society, and is still based on rote learning and memorization instead of learning through discovery and learning to use and apply what is learned.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Social Change
MacNeill, Sheila; Campbell, Lorna M.; Hawksey, Martin – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2014
This article presents an overview of the development and use of analytics in the context of education. Using Buckingham Shum's three levels of analytics, the authors present a critical analysis of current developments in the domain of learning analytics, and contrast the potential value of analytics research and development with real world…
Descriptors: Learning, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Abbott, Laura Lynn Tanner – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental predictive study was to determine if CIA alignment factors and related district support systems are associated with student achievement to enable the turnaround of schools in crisis. This study aimed to utilize the District Snapshot Tool to determine if the district systems that support CIA…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement, Writing Achievement
Narumi, Takatsune; Gotoh, Yasushi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
How to guarantee graduate attributes has become an urgent challenge amid the increasing progress in scientific and technological development and the globalization of economic activity. In order to solve these problems, a system is required which can visualize learning outcomes in relation to attainment targets, and store and sample records of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Characteristics, College Graduates
Lazarus, Sheryl; Thurlow, Martha; Christensen, Laurene; Shyyan, Vitaliy – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2014
Federal policy initiatives such as the flexibility waivers for accountability are requiring that states transition away from the use of an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS). It is expected that those students who had participated in that assessment will instead participate in the state's general assessment (or a…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Low Achievement
Nielson, Kate – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2014
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 English language arts/literacy and mathematics, released in 2010, have been adopted by 49 states and territories; the District of Columbia; and the U.S. Department of Defense schools, which serve the children of U.S. service members around the world. The widespread adoption of the CCSS is a major…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, State Policy, State Programs, Program Implementation
Hallgren, Kristin; James-Burdumy, Susanne; Perez-Johnson, Irma – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
This brief describes the extent to which states required teacher evaluation policies aligned with the Race to the Top (RTT) initiative as of spring 2012. Although teacher evaluation policies appear to be rapidly evolving, documenting policy requirements in the early years of RTT implementation can help inform policymakers about the pace of policy…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Interviews
Rodman, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite years of educational reform, secondary students have demonstrated only modest increases in achievement. Career and technical education students have not demonstrated the same level of performance as non-career and technical education students. Except for teachers, principals have the greatest influence over student achievement. What should…
Descriptors: Principals, Career Education, Technical Education, Vocational Schools
Kagan, Sharon Lynn, Ed.; Kauertz, Kristie, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2012
In this seminal volume, leading authorities strategize about how to create early childhood systems that transcend politics and economics to serve the needs of all young children. The authors offer different interpretations of the nature of early childhood systems, discuss the elements necessary to support their development, and examine how…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Care
Domingue, Benjamin Webre – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In psychometrics, it is difficult to verify that measurement instruments can be used to produce numeric values with the desirable property that differences between units are equal-interval because the attributes being measured are latent. The theory of additive conjoint measurement (e.g., Krantz, Luce, Suppes, & Tversky, 1971, ACM) guarantees…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Evaluation Methods, Error of Measurement, Intervals
Haywood, Antwione Maurice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Academy was an assessment enhancement program created by the HLC to help institutions strengthen and improve the assessment of student learning. Using a multiple case study approach, this study applies Argyis and Schon's (1976) Theory of Action to explore the espoused values and existence of Model I and II behavior characteristics. Argyis…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Organizational Culture, Case Studies
Dobson, Stephen – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
Schools and their development as sustainable assessment cultures requires insight into the interests and role of different stakeholders: school policy makers, teachers and their teaching teams, principals, parents, pupils and the local community. Researchers are not immediately included in this list, but as external advisers they can play a…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Teaching Methods, Systems Approach, Researchers
Shaw, Stuart; Crisp, Victoria; Johnson, Nat – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
It is important for educational assessment bodies to demonstrate how they are seeking to meet the demands of validity. The approach to validity taken here assumes a "consequentialist" view where the appropriacy of the inferences made on the basis of assessment results is seen as central. This paper describes the development of a…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Evidence, Methods, Educational Assessment
Allensworth, Elaine M.; Healey, Kaleen; Gwynne, Julia A.; Crespin, René – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2016
High school graduation rates in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have shown remarkable improvements over the past 16 years. Students used to be about as likely to drop out as they were to graduate; now they are three times as likely to graduate as to drop out. Moreover, recent large improvements in the percentage of students on-track to graduate…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Educational Change, Demography