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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"student growth"”.
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Teacher Perceptions of Student Growth Measures in Performance Evaluation
… (NCLB) legislation established links between student and teacher performance. Race to the Top (RttT) initiatives and waivers for the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) legislation required these links be used for teacher accountability in the form of including student …
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Teachers' Perceptions Of School Leaders' Behaviors And The Relationship To Student Growth/Achievement
… the relationship between working conditions and student achievement/growth. A sample of 5,912 (n=5,912) educators’ responses was used for the study. The data collected were publicly available, archival data from the responses reported by the Teaching Empowering Leading Learning Tennessee Survey. …
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Program Evaluation of Behavior Plans and Rubrics: The Process and Impact on Student Growth
… at an alternative behavioral school, hindered students’ transition back to their home school. Students remained at the alternative school because they failed to meet the skewed goals of the behavior plan and rubric. The gathering of qualitative and quantitative data from stakeholders casts a …
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Teacher-Created Student Growth Assessments Used For Teacher Evaluation And The Effects On Teacher Efficacy
… process. This study looks at how teacher-created student growth assessments (SGAs) for teacher evaluation affects teacher efficacy with respect to instructional practice. Survey data were collected from 110 kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers; additional data were gathered from three …
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Leadership Team Actions That Manifest Collective Autonomy and Their Impact on Student Growth and Curriculum
… to lead meaningful, systemic and sustainable student improvement efforts that incorporate the required areas of reading and mathematics. A review of the educational literature revealed several studies that identified the limitations of America's current school accountability movement and …
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The Impact Of Blended Learning On Measures Of Academic Progress (MAP) Based On Student Growth
… setting and often neglects the impact on student growth in the secondary settings. The combination of technology and teacher involvement to deliver high quality instruction is important in 21st century learning. This quantitative, non-experimental, causal-comparative study analyzes student …
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The Correlation Between Professional Learning Communities & Collective Efficacy & the Resulting Impact on Student Growth Data
… Center of Education Statistics revealed that the students in United States are scoring lower than several other countries in the areas of science and mathematics. Students in other countries are able to compete globally for employment in professional occupations that were previously occupied by …
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Workshop Training And Instructional Coaching: A Model For Professional Development That Results In Academic Student Growth
… of both the experimental and control groups. The students in the experimental group classrooms outperformed the control group classrooms in science vocabulary growth. Qualitative data provided insight into the successes and difficulties the experiemental group teachers had in implementing their …
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An examination of the relationship between school climate and student growth in select Michigan charter schools
… relationship exists between school climate and student growth in Michigan charter schools. Data were collected through the use of a school climate survey and standardized assessment results. The Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire for Elementary Schools (OCDQ-RE) developed by Hoy, …
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An Explorational Study of Educational Leaders' Attitudes, Opinions, Understanding, and Application of Student Growth Percentile (SGP) Data
<p>Student Growth Percentiles have recently become popular as a way to report student progress over time. Because of the perception that they are relatively simple to understand, they have also become a popular tool to use when evaluating teachers and school-based administrators, even though this …
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An Evaluation of AVID as Related to Student Growth in Math and English Language Arts and Teacher Satisfaction with AVID
<p>In education, there is a certain population of students that are overlooked. The low-socioeconomic student whose parent(s) did not attend post-secondary education is often overlooked. There is a need to provide these students with supports to become successful both in secondary and …
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A study of teacher perceptions of the use of student growth measures in teacher evaluation and its effect on school culture
… explored teacher perceptions of the inclusion of student growth data into the teacher evaluation process and the relationship(s) these perceptions might have on school culture. A positive correlation (p <.001) was found between the inclusion of VAM into the teacher evaluation process and …
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The Impact of Teacher-Student Relationships and Classroom Engagement On Student Growth Percentiles of 7th and 8th Grade Students in One Rural School in Southwest Georgia
… are implementing a relatively new metric, student growth percentiles, as part of teacher and leader evaluations. Student growth plays a tremendous role in evaluations, accounting for up to 50% of a teacher or leader evaluations, yet there is little to no peer reviewed research on classroom …
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Integrated Co-Teaching on the Growth of English Language Arts and Mathematics Achievement in Elementary School Students Using Student Growth Percentiles
… to traditional classrooms on the academic growth of students with and without disabilities. This issue is examined in English language arts and mathematics using the New York State testing program results. A quasi-experimental design and a post hoc statistical analyses using t-tests was …
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Assessing Response To Intervention By The Extent To Which Tier II Supports Impacted Student Growth: The Story Of Response To Intervention (RtI) Practices In One Urban School District
… Tier II data and to determine its impact on student growth. Following the Patton (2008) utilization focused program evaluation model, information learned about staff practices with data in Tier II became available to users. A staff survey, statistical analysis of Tier II data, and an RtI form …
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Teacher evaluation policy reforms involving student data: Teachers’ perceptions
… public schools who have been evaluated using student test data. One school used a student learning objective approach and one school used an all-in approach. The theoretical framework for this study was relational trust. The research questions were: (a) To what extent do Illinois public school …
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The effects of computerized spelling instruction on the elementary classroom
… in three specific areas: instruction time, student and teacher satisfaction, and student growth in spelling. The expectation was that instruction time would be saved, students and teachers would have a positive attitude toward this mode of instruction, and that student growth would be …
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Principal sensemaking of policy reform in Illinois: Focused supervision and evaluation of teachers
… requires school principals to improve student learning for all students, implement national and state policies, maintain a positive culture, provide professional development, and supervise and evaluate faculty members. In order to improve learning in schools, education reform mandates …
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The Impact of Student Performance on Large-Scale Assessments: A View of Long-Term Health, Career, and Societal Outcomes
<p>This study examined the predictive power of student growth for large-scale assessments on meaningful life outcomes, focusing on the three categories of health, career, and societal involvement. Analysis was conducted using the NELS:88/00 dataset–a longitudinal study that followed a …
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