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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Clifford, Matthew – American Institutes for Research, 2015
Most states and districts scramble to provide professional development to support principals, but "principal evaluation" is often lost amid competing priorities. Evaluation is an important method for supporting principal growth, communicating performance expectations to principals, and improving leadership practice. It provides leaders…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Talent Development, Capacity Building, Leadership
Clifford, Matthew; Menon, Roshni; Gangi, Tracy; Condon, Christopher; Hornung, Katie – American Institutes for Research, 2012
This policy brief provides principal evaluation system designers information about the technical soundness and cost (i.e., time requirements) of publicly available school climate surveys. The authors focus on the technical soundness of school climate surveys because they believe that using validated and reliable surveys as an outcomes measure can…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Principals, Measurement, Validity
Clifford, Matthew; Behrstock-Sherratt, Ellen; Fetters, Jenni – American Institutes for Research, 2012
Public education is a cornerstone of democracy, a prerequisite for economic recovery, and a key lever in achieving national commitment to equal opportunity for all. Although the nearly 90,000 public school principals constitute a relatively small percentage of the public education sector, their work can have a "ripple effect" on the 3.4 million…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Research, Leadership Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods