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Teachers' reflections upon evaluation of their work [PDF]

Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2015
Teacher evaluation is seen as an important strategic solution for enhancing the quality of education in educational policies of many countries. Yet, the way teachers understand the evaluation of their own work and their stance related to evaluation as it
Stančić Milan
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The attitudes to inclusion and Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practices scales: psychometric properties across Swiss in-service, pre-service, and special education teachers

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study examined the psychometric properties of two widely used scales measuring teacher attitudes (Attitudes to Inclusion Scale; AIS) and self-efficacy (Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practices Scale; TEIP and its short form TEIP-SF ...
Sergej Wüthrich, Caroline Sahli Lozano
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Putting teacher evaluation systems on the map: An overview of states' teacher evaluation systems post–Every Student Succeeds Act

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
The Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) loosened the federal policy grip over states’ teacher accountability systems. We present information, collected via surveys sent to state department of education personnel, about all states’ teacher evaluation ...
Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Clarin Collins   +2 more
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Promoting children's social reasoning about immigration-based exclusion and bystander behavior through literary discussions

Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
IntroductionThe current study is the first to investigate the effect of an argument-based intervention about children's literature on social reasoning about immigrant-based exclusion.MethodsWith a one-year intervention study, we examined social reasoning
Sara Egger, Luciano Gasser, Anna Frei, David Preisig, Hanna Beißert, Hanna Beißert, Hanna Beißert, Yvonne Dammert   +7 more
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Anticipating and Incorporating Stakeholder Feedback when Developing Value-Added Models

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
State and local education agencies across the United States are increasingly adopting rigorous teacher evaluation systems. Most systems formally incorporate teacher performance as measured by student test-score growth, sometimes by state mandate.
Ryan Balch, Cory Koedel
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Better integrating summative and formative goals in the design of next generation teacher evaluation systems

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
In current teacher evaluation systems, the two main purposes of evaluation—accountability/goal accomplishment (summative) and professional growth/improvement (formative)—are often at odds with one another.
Timothy G. Ford, Kim Hewitt
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Learning eco-friendly food choice using extended reality – an exploratory investigation

Frontiers in Virtual Reality
IntroductionIt has not yet been investigated whether virtual reality (VR) may be useful to support the learning of eco-friendly food choice by enabling human individuals to experience motivational behavior-environment associations that depending on the ...
Martin Dobricki, Michael Rihs, Michael Rihs, Sina Shahmoradi   +3 more
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Adapting the Utilization-Focused Approach for Teacher Evaluation

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2009
Mandated teacher evaluations are of little use to educators for a variety of reasons, including lack of reliability and validity of evaluation instruments and methods, failure of evaluation systems to adhere to the Personnel Evaluation Standards (Joint ...
Lindsay A. Noakes
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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait, R. Al‐Saadi, A. Lopez‐Cortes, K. Dzhuma, M. Oostveen, J. Brok, S. Irtan, M. Weeks, J. Bate, S. Baker, R. Williams, M. Powis, D. Saunders, O. Olsen, T. Watson, S. Shelmerdine, S. Vaidya, L. Howell, C. Duncan, G. M. Vujanic, C. Stiller, G. P. Balchin, T. Chowdhury, K. Pritchard‐Jones   +23 more
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Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Value-added models are being implemented in many states in an attempt to measure the contributions of individual teachers and schools toward students’ learning.
Sharon Lohr
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