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Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2016
Minnesotans value education. Education is the largest financial investment in the state budget, and those investments place Minnesota students among the top performers in the nation. Still, substantial gaps in opportunity and performance persist. The three purposes of the needs assessment were to: (1) Describe infrastructure, capacity, and costs…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Needs Assessment, Information Utilization, Program Evaluation
Santiago, Paulo; Levitas, Anthony; Radó, Péter; Shewbridge, Claire – OECD Publishing, 2016
This report for Estonia forms part of the OECD Review of Policies to Improve the Effectiveness of Resource Use in Schools. The purpose of the review is to explore how school resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. School resources are understood in a broad way,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas
Quitano, Elwin Champaco – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The answer to effective formal principal preparation reform across the nation has been to adopt and implement the "Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium" (ISLLC) standards, which in most instances begins with graduate program courses and field training within higher learning institutions. Close adherence to Standard 5, a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Ethics, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty
Krachman, Sara Bartolino; Arnold, Rebecca; LaRocca, Robert – Transforming Education, 2016
In our latest case study, TransformEd describes how California's CORE Districts created a groundbreaking data system that sees students as whole people, not just test scores. The case study provides an in-depth discussion of how social-emotional competencies--a key component of the CORE Districts--were prioritized and assessed. We conclude with…
Descriptors: School Districts, Social Development, Emotional Development, Academic Achievement
Golden, Gillian; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Giovinazzo, Manon; Crosby, Shiana; Horvathova, Michaela – OECD Publishing, 2017
This policy profile on education in Belgium is part of the "Education Policy Outlook" series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across OECD countries. Building on the OECD's substantial comparative and sectoral knowledge base, the series offers a comparative outlook on education policy by providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2017
To comply with Section 1111(e) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are required to submit evidence associated with their assessment systems to the United States Department of Education (ED) for peer review. Thirty-eight states submitted evidence for their assessment…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Assessment, Compliance (Legal)
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Van Dyke, Ray – European Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Given increasing emphasis on assessment and accountability across the globe in higher education, it is clear that individual institutions must take action and provide evidence in response to these concerns. This article provides an example of how one university has developed a central office for assessment, facilitated the development of an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Colleges
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MacLean, John S.; White, Brain J. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
Assessment has become a popular buzzword on academic campuses over the last few decades. Most assessment models are designed to evaluate traditional learning structures. If we were to state simply the process of assessment, it might read like this: (1) what you want the students to learn; (2) how you want to teach the material; and (3) how you…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Students, College Faculty, Educational Assessment
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Heap, James – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2013
Ontario's Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) is reviewed and found not to meet all five criteria proposed for a strong quality assurance system focused on student learning. The QAF requires a statement of student learning outcomes and a method and means of assessing those outcomes, but it does not require that data on achievement of intended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Academic Achievement
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Chick, Helen; Pierce, Robyn – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2013
State-wide and national testing in areas such as literacy and numeracy produces reports containing graphs and tables illustrating school and individual performance. These are intended to inform teachers, principals, and education organisations about student and school outcomes, to guide change and improvement. Given the complexity of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Numeracy, Principals
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Hendrickson, Amy; Ewing, Maureen; Kaliski, Pamela; Huff, Kristen – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2013
Evidence-centered design (ECD) is an orientation towards assessment development. It differs from conventional practice in several ways and consists of multiple activities. Each of these activities results in a set of useful documentation: domain analysis, domain modeling, construction of the assessment framework, and assessment…
Descriptors: Evidence, Test Construction, Educational Assessment, Learning Theories
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Marchand, Gwen C.; Olafson, Lori; Steaffens, Susan – School-University Partnerships, 2013
This paper discusses the role of evaluation in the development of Professional Development Schools (PDS) and how evaluation techniques can be used to increase the rigor of self-study activities in a PDS. Evaluation activities may be challenging for a PDS given limited resources. Yet, creative use of school and university expertise can help PDSs…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, College School Cooperation
Miller, Mary Genusa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The researcher sought to describe the culture of assessment for post-secondary program improvement that had resulted from the new requirements for reaffirmation through regional accreditation. The literature was deficient in a conceptual framework and surveys to measure a culture of assessment. The researcher developed a conceptual framework…
Descriptors: Universities, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Assessment, Organizational Culture
Bulut, Okan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The importance of subscores in educational and psychological assessments is undeniable. Subscores yield diagnostic information that can be used for determining how each examinee's abilities/skills vary over different content domains. One of the most common criticisms about reporting and using subscores is insufficient reliability of subscores.…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Simulation, Correlation, Reliability
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2013
Entrepreneurship education--the teaching of skills and cultivation of talents that students need to start businesses, identify opportunities, manage risk, and innovate in the course of their careers--is now a staple of American higher education. As recently as the 1990s, that was far from true. Over the past decade or so, however, the university…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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