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Bradley, Leah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines a pedagogical method known as transparent assignment design, or TAD, intended to make course assignments more accessible for students. The research related to TAD in higher education offers promising results, yet there is still much that is unknown about the implementation and impact of TAD. The study utilizes action research…
Descriptors: College Students, Teaching Methods, Assignments, College Faculty
Houston Independent School District, 2021
Houston Independent School District (HISD) strives to provide an equitable education to all its students. To uphold the district's mission, the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) was designed with the goal of promoting effective teaching by providing systematic, rigorous feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom. Through the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers, Summative Evaluation
Houston Independent School District, 2020
Houston Independent School District (HISD) strives to provide an equitable education to all its students. To uphold the district's mission, the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) was designed with the goal of promoting effective teaching by providing systematic, rigorous feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom. Through the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Public School Teachers, Summative Evaluation
Houston Independent School District, 2019
Houston Independent School District (HISD) strives to provide an equitable education to all its students. To uphold the district's mission, the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) was designed with the goal of promoting effective teaching by providing systematic, rigorous feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom. Through the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Houston Independent School District, 2017
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) is intended to improve teacher performance and increase student achievement. This report analyzes results from the TADS Evaluation Survey, which assessed teacher and appraiser perceptions about TADS in 2016-2017. Perceptions about TADS are presented by…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Houston Independent School District, 2018
Houston Independent School District (HISD) strives to provide an equitable education to all of its students. In an effort to uphold the district's mission, the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) was designed with the goal of promoting effective teaching by providing systematic, rigorous feedback on teachers' effectiveness in the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hove, Tad A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Self-determination theory (SDT) posits a framework for human motivation, highlighting an individual's interactions and perceptions of his or her environment. Research incorporating a SDT framework has identified antecedents of psychological need satisfaction (PNS) in human motivation. Individual motivation broadens levels of social interactions as…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Higher Education, Student Development, Motivation
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Ransopher, Tad D.; Sargent, Carol Springer – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2020
The literature shows that unguided device use in the classroom decreases academic outcomes for a broad range of students. However, the literature does not address potential harms to graduate students. We investigate where highly motivated graduate students in a professional MPA program would be vulnerable to the same device distraction effects as…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Handheld Devices, Graduate Students, Classroom Techniques
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Engeström, Yrjö; Nuttall, Joce; Hopwood, Nick – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Theories of agency are often borrowed from psychology and sociology; truly educational theories of agency are rare -- theories that not only classify and measure dimensions of agency but enable us to understand how its formation can be pedagogically facilitated. Based on Sannino's recent work on transformative agency by double stimulation (TADS),…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Social Theories, Change, Stimulation
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Watanabe, Tad – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) (CCSSI 2010) identifies the strategic use of appropriate tools as one of the mathematical practices and emphasizes the use of pictures and diagrams as reasoning tools. Starting with the early elementary grades, CCSSM discusses students' solving of problems "by drawing." In later…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students
Houston Independent School District, 2023
This report presents changes in educator and student outcomes for HISD, Achieve 180 Program schools, and non-Achieve 180 comparison schools which were Title I, Part A campuses for the fifth year of the program. Positive effects of the Achieve 180 Program were observed although there were still challenges which Achieve 180 Program schools needed to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, School Districts, School Turnaround
Houston Independent School District, 2017
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) launched the Effective Teachers Initiative (ETI) in 2010 with the goal of increasing teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement. As part of this initiative, HISD implemented the Teacher Appraisal and Development System (TADS) in the 2011-2012 school year to provide teachers, principals, and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education
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August, Diane; Barr, Christopher; Carlson, Coleen; Johnston, Will Tad; Marken, Alexandra – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
This study investigated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to support sixth-grade Spanish-speaking English as Additional Language (EAL) learners and their English proficient classmates in acquiring pre-algebra knowledge and skills and associated academic vocabulary. The sample consisted of 88 EAL learners and their 139 English…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Mathematics Skills
Hernandez, Selina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This transcendental phenomenological study will explore the lived experiences of Southern Texas Mexican American/Chicana women pursuing a doctorate. The Chicana's experience achieving a doctorate has been overlooked by the literature, with much of the research on Mexican American women being outdated or focusing on completing high school or…
Descriptors: Females, Doctoral Students, Student Experience, Mexican Americans
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Kali, Yael; McKenney, Susan; Sagy, Ornit – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
While the benefits of teacher involvement in designing technology enhanced learning are acknowledged in the literature, far less is known about shaping that involvement to yield those benefits. Research is needed to understand how teachers learn through design; how teacher design activities may be supported; and how teacher involvement in design…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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