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Direct linkMarshall, Jeffery H.; Chinna, Ung; Hok, Ung Ngo; Tinon, Souer; Veasna, Meung; Nissay, Put – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The global spread of national assessment testing activities, and the growing pressure to move beyond basic measures of participation in educational monitoring, means that student achievement measures are likely to become increasingly relevant indicators of systemic progress in the developing world. Using data from the CESSP project in Cambodia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Developing Nations, Evaluation Methods
Lindberg, Erik – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The Anglo-Saxon countries have implemented Management by Objectives (MBO) complemented with school-based management (SBM) fairly rapidly. Although these countries are considered something of a benchmark of stability, research on principals reveals that they experience high levels of stress and that this is associated with poorer job performance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Job Performance, School Based Management
McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This paper attempts to provide an overview of the key assumptions underpinning the "Whole School Evaluation" (WSE) inspection policy developed in Ireland since 2003. Beginning with a documentary analysis the paper argues that the capacity to generate useful self evaluative data in schools was seen as being at the heart of the model of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Focus Groups, Inspection
Zerihun, Zenawi; Beishuizen, Jos; Van Os, Willem – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The purpose of the study was to develop an improved teaching evaluation questionnaire based on students' learning experiences and selected teacher characteristics identified as indicators of teaching quality. Teaching evaluation questionnaires are commonly designed either based on agreed indicators of teaching excellence, students' suggestions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness
Koh, Kim H.; Tan, Charlene; Ng, Pak Tee – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Using Singapore as an example, we argue that schools need to equip and encourage teachers to adopt authentic assessment in teaching and learning so as to develop the students' higher-order thinking. The importance of teaching and assessing higher-order thinking in Singapore classrooms is encapsulated in the vision of "Thinking Schools" launched by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Thinking Skills
Chen, Weiyun; Mason, Stephen; Staniszewski, Christina; Upton, Ashley; Valley, Megan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This study assessed the extent to which nine elementary physical education teachers implemented the quality of teaching practices. Thirty physical education lessons taught by the nine teachers to their students in grades K-5 were videotaped. Four investigators coded the taped lessons using the Assessing Quality Teaching Rubric (AQTR) designed and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Research, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Methods
Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Osborn Popp, Sharon E. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Teacher educators piloted the use of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP), a peer observation instrument associated with increases in learning in science and mathematics teacher education courses. Faculty participants received a series of trainings in RTOP use and rated each other's teaching during multiple peer observations. The…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Observation, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators
Sedova, Klara; Svaricek, Roman – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This paper introduces an empirical study that examines how teachers evaluate pupils' responses. The study draws on research undertaken at four secondary schools in the Czech Republic. It transpires that feedback has a stable position in the structure of communication; however, it is used only to verify pupils' responses and not to elaborate them.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Student Evaluation
Sun, Min; Youngs, Peter; Yang, Haiyan; Chu, Hongqi; Zhao, Qian – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Principal evaluation has become a key component of national policy debates on developing effective leaders. To contribute to these debates, this study draws on survey data to explore how principals in Michigan and metropolitan Beijing behaved differently in enacting leadership related to teaching and learning, and how they were evaluated…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Instructional Leadership, Differences
Tomul, Ekber; Savasci, Havva Sebile – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This study aims to investigate the relationship between academic achievement and the socioeconomic characteristics of elementary school 7th grade students in Burdur. The population of the study are 7th grade students who had education at elementary schools in Burdur in the 2007-2008 academic year. Two staged sampling was chosen as suitable for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Student Characteristics, Elementary School Students
Parylo, Oksana; Zepeda, Sally J.; Bengtson, Ed – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This phenomenological study sought to understand principals' lived experiences of being evaluated with reliance on the principles of developmental supervision and adult learning theory. Analysis of interview data from 16 principals revealed 3 major constructs in principal evaluation: evaluation is a complex, constantly changing system; principal…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Experience, Supervision
Zahedi, Keivan; Shamsaee, Saeedeh – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The aim of the present research is to examine the viability of the construct validity of the speaking modules of two internationally recognized language proficiency examinations, namely IELTS and TOEFL iBT. High-stake standardized tests play a crucial and decisive role in determining the future academic life of many people. Overall obtained scores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Smyth, Emer; Banks, Joanne – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
There is now a well developed literature on the impact of high stakes testing on teaching approaches and student outcomes. However, the student perspective has been neglected in much research. This article draws on a mixed method longitudinal study of secondary students in the Republic of Ireland to explore the impact of two sets of high stakes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
Mason, Richard W.; Schroeder, Mark P. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Letters of reference are commonly used in acquiring a job in education. Despite serious issues of validity and reliability in writing and evaluating letters, there is a dearth of research that systematically examines the evaluation process and defines the constructs that define high quality letters. The current study used NVivo to examine 160…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Letters (Correspondence), Validity, Reliability
O'Pry, Stephen C.; Schumacher, Gary – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
This study was conducted with first-year teachers. It provided insight into two key research questions: (1) What were the perceptions of new teachers regarding a standards-based performance appraisal system as it was implemented on their campus? (2) What factors contributed to the perceptions of new teachers regarding this system as it was…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards
