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Campbell, Shanyce L.; Ronfeldt, Matthew – American Educational Research Journal, 2018
Our secondary analysis of Measures of Effective Teaching data contributes to growing evidence that observation ratings, used as part of comprehensive teacher evaluation systems across the nation, may measure factors outside of a teacher's performance or control. Specifically, men and teachers in classrooms with high concentrations of Black,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Observation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics
Conahan, Jeanne Shober – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As the population of English Learners (ELs) continues to rise in the United States, there is a need to investigate the efficacy of teachers who are assigned to instruct them. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that contribute to teacher efficacy when mainstream elementary/middle school teachers instruct ELs while addressing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, School Districts
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Eyasu, Nahom – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
One of the great problems of Ethiopia for the educational arena is retention. Averagely 8.07% of each year of the secondary education students is repeated due to lack of achievement in this country. The percentage of retention in a country shows what proportion of students is regularly repeated in the same grade and who are, therefore, committing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, Secondary School Students, Grade 9
Holm, Jennifer, Ed.; Megroureche, Charlotte, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2022
With COVID-19 continuing to make meeting face-to-face impossible, the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group/Groupe Canadien d'Étude en Didactique des Mathématiques (CMESG/GCEDM) executive decided that, for the first time, the CMESG/GCEDM meeting would be held virtually. By necessity, the program had to be much compressed with no topic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Baroody, Alison E. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
This study examined the contribution of classroom format on teaching effectiveness and achievement in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. Secondary data analyses of the Measures of Effective Teaching database included 464 US classrooms. Classrooms were defined as self-contained if a generalist teacher provided instruction on all subjects…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Classroom Design, Academic Achievement, Language Arts
Rebell, Michael A.; Wolff, Jessica R.; Rogers, Joseph R., Jr. – Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2012
In 2011, the Campaign for Educational Equity established the Safeguarding Sound Basic Education Project. One of the major components of this project has been to gather and analyze data about the availability of resources and services in high-needs schools both in New York City and around the state. A number of groups have issued statistical…
Descriptors: School Districts, Response to Intervention, At Risk Students, Educational Resources
Rebell, Michael A.; Wardenski, Joseph J. – Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc., 2004
One of the great school funding myths of our time is the notion that money spent on improving public schools for poor and minority students is akin to throwing money into a bottomless pit. According to the politicians and policymakers who have pushed this view into the public debate on education reform, our schools have ample resources, and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Change