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50 Years of ERIC
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Antoniou, Panayiotis; James, Mary – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2014
The importance of formative assessment in facilitating student learning has been well established in the literature. However, defining and implementing formative assessment in classroom settings is a rather complicated task. The aim of this study is to explore formative assessment, as implemented in primary classrooms in Cyprus, and develop a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Classroom Techniques, Qualitative Research, Elementary School Teachers
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Ehren, M. C. M.; Altrichter, H.; McNamara, G.; O'Hara, J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2013
School inspection is used by most European education systems as a major instrument for controlling and promoting the quality of schools. Surprisingly, there is little research knowledge about how school inspections drive the improvement of schools and which types of approaches are most effective and cause the least unintended consequences. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Models, School Effectiveness
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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
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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
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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
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Burden, Peter – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
A new reform movement in Japanese tertiary education has emerged which is more economy centered, more market sensitive, and more influenced by a government shift towards decentralization. With the dramatic decline in the 18 year old population, a buyer's market has led to the introduction of student evaluation of teaching surveys (SETs) partly as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Summative Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Wildy, Helen; Clarke, Simon – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
This paper provides an example of the application of the cognitive interview, a qualitative tool for pre-testing a survey instrument to check its cognitive validity, that is, whether the items mean to respondents what they mean to the item designers. The instrument is the survey used in the final phase of the International Study of Principal…
Descriptors: Interviews, Validity, Pretesting, Surveys