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Butz, Stephen D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research examined the education system at high-poverty schools that had significantly higher student achievement levels as compared to similar schools with lower student achievement levels. A multischool qualitative case study was conducted of the educational systems where there was a significant difference in the scores achieved on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poverty, High Achievement, School Effectiveness
National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2012
The performance of special education students on state assessments has been the subject of much discussion and concern. A common belief is that all special education students perform poorly on state assessments. There are many misperceptions about the performance of students with disabilities. It is important for the Race-to-the-Top Assessment…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Assessment, Measurement, Performance
Young, JoAnn P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study was designed to examine and identify the site-based process that two elementary, independent schools, accredited by the Southern Association of Independent Schools use for curriculum and instructional development. Also, the study examined and identified the development and use of assessments to support each school's…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
McKinzie, Abasi H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study utilized the student scores of eighth-grade mathematics students on the "Discovery Education Assessment," as well as the self-efficacy perceptions of eighth-grade mathematics teachers as determined by the "Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale" ("TSES") from seven middle schools that encompassed grades 6-8…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Grade 8
Marty-Pearson, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At San Joaquin Valley College, a culture of cultivating student learning through assessment was created in response to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges-Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges requirements for Fall 2012. In General Education, promoting and developing this culture has been more difficult with faculty…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Communities of Practice
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Allen, Ansgar – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper argues that, despite the obvious and important differences between high-stakes and low-stakes assessment, there remain important points in common. These manifest themselves at a sociological level, where each tradition of assessment shares a similar disposition towards power. It is argued that both high-stakes and low-stakes assessment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Schools
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Taherkhani, Ahmad; Korhonen, Ari; Malmi, Lauri – Computer Science Education, 2012
In this study, we examined freshmen students' sorting algorithm implementations in data structures and algorithms' course in two phases: at the beginning of the course before the students received any instruction on sorting algorithms, and after taking a lecture on sorting algorithms. The analysis revealed that many students have insufficient…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Mathematics, Computer Science Education
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Alkin, Marvin C.; Vo, Anne T.; Christie, Christina A. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2012
The act of valuing in an evaluation may be perceived in different ways. We consider the multiple theoretic perspectives that govern an evaluator's behavior and present a typology of evaluator valuing roles. Within this typology we describe three ways in which value judgments are typically reached--by stakeholders alone, stakeholders and evaluators…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Classification, Value Judgment, Role
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Fletcher, Richard B.; Meyer, Luanna H.; Anderson, Helen; Johnston, Patricia; Rees, Malcolm – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Assessment in higher education serves multiple purposes such as providing information about student learning, student progress, teaching quality, and program and institutional accountability. Yet, little is known about faculty and students' attitudes regarding different aspects of assessment that have wide-ranging implications for policy and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Tarc, Paul – Canadian Journal of Education, 2012
The term "globalization" does more than represent a set of material (and ideological) processes that have impacts on education and schooling. Additionally, "globalization" operates as a conceptual lens or set of interventions, which is significantly impacting academic discourses in Education and in other disciplines. Not only…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Research, Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Economy
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Leonardatos, Harry; Zahedi, Katie – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background & Purpose: This article focuses on the current educational reform movement in New York State resulting from the state's receipt of $700 million in Race to the Top (RTTT) money. Specifically, the article will focus on one aspect of the RTTT requirement, which requires that school districts develop teacher accountability systems that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Teacher Role
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O'Leary, Matt; Brooks, Val – Professional Development in Education, 2014
Successive governments in England have regarded classroom observation as an essential tool for monitoring and improving teacher performance. Despite its importance in national policy for teacher development, the impact of classroom observation on individual teachers, and on improving quality and standards in teaching and learning, remain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Observation, Standards
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le Cordeur, Michael – Perspectives in Education, 2014
For a number of years now, South Africa, like many other countries, has been debating a major paradigm shift in education, a shift from learning and teaching, which focused primarily on content to learning and teaching focused on outcomes. One of the most dramatic trends in education over the past decade has been the shift towards the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Literacy
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Prasuhn, Frederick Carl – American Journal of Distance Education, 2014
U.S. public university system policies were examined to learn how credit hours were determined for asynchronous online education. Findings indicated that (a) credit hour meaning and use are not consistent, (b) primary responsibility for credit hour decisions was at the local level, and (c) no policies exist to guide credit hour application for…
Descriptors: Distance Education, College Credits, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication
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Noble, Tracy; Rosebery, Ann; Suarez, Catherine; Warren, Beth; O'Connor, Mary Catherine – Applied Measurement in Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) and their teachers, schools, and communities face increasingly high-stakes consequences due to test score gaps between ELLs and non-ELLs. It is essential that the field of educational assessment continue to investigate the meaning of these test score gaps. This article discusses the findings of an exploratory study…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Evidence, Educational Assessment, Achievement Gap
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