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Title: Findings from the 2016-2017 North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process implementation case study
Author: Ferrara, Angela, Lin, Van-Kim, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The 2016-2017 academic year marks the second year of statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 Formative Assessment Process: Kindergarten Entry Assessment (FAPKEA). The assessment, developed and implemented by the Office of Early Learning...

Title: First 3 Induction Program 2013 report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
Subjects--Topical: First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology
Description: High turnover rates affect diverse professional areas. Recruiting and training new employees is costly for profit and non-profit organizations. However, turnover in the teaching career costs quality and effectiveness in schools, in addition to the...

Title: First 3 Induction Program 2014 report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
Subjects--Topical: First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
Description: Teaching is a highly demanding career, in which as many as 50% of teachers who teach in low-income schools, and more than 30% of teachers regardless of school’s income exit the profession in the first five years (Darling-Hammond, and Sykes, 2003)....

Title: First 3 Induction Program report 2015
Author: Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
Subjects--Topical: First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
Description: First 3 is an induction program that aims to help beginning teachers, in their first three years in the career, to learn what they need to excel. Year one is called the “Year of Survival”, and it goes through the five phases that teachers normally...

Title: First 3 effectiveness report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
Subjects--Topical: First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
Description: First 3 is a support program for beginning teachers, who are in their first three years in the teaching career, and undergraduate students. The program completed its third year, and this report summarizes the findings from the reports of 2012, 201...

Title: Growth norms for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: The Technical Manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Taylor, and McGee, 2010) contains norm tables for both raw and scale scores for each developmental domain that are based on a cross-sectional research design in...

Title: Guidelines for preparing a research article in APA style-redux
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Spooner, Fred, Lo, Ya-yu, Kemp-Inman, Amy
Subjects--Topical: American Psychological Association, Report writing
Description: In this article, we review key considerations for preparing a manuscript for submission to a journal that uses guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). We describe features of primary sections of a ...

Title: Hall House evaluation study final project
Author: Lambert, Richard, Britt, Heather
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Temporary housing
Description: Hall House, a Charlotte Housing Authority property, was established to provide safe, transitional housing for 100 families of homeless children in Charlotte, NC from December 16, 2008 to June 30, 2009 at 426 N. Tryon St. Hall House was a collabora...

Title: MSP end of year three summative report
Author: Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Mathematics--Curricula, Professional development for teachers
Description: This is a summative report based on Year Three data from the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I). The purpose of the MSP grant program was to develop standards-based elementary mathematics teachers by givi...

Title: MSP grant project CoDE:I year two summative report
Author: Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Mathematics--Curricula, Professional development for teachers
Description: This is the second report based on Year Two data from the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I). The purpose of the MSP grant program was to develop standards-based elementary mathematics teachers by giving ...

Title: MSP grant project “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE: I) year one summative report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Wang, Chuang, McGee, Jennifer
Subjects--Topical: Professional development for teachers, Educational evaluation
Description: The following report presents findings from the external evaluation of the MSP Grant Project entitled, “Content Development for Investigations” (CoDE:I).

Title: Overview of factor analyses conducted using scores from the GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education--Evaluation
Description: Our research team has conducted numerous factor analyses over many years using data collected using the GOLD assessment system. These analyses have been conducted to both examine and confirm the underlying structure, or dimensionality, of the info...

Title: PKKTPAI teacher evaluation system (PreK-K Teachers' Performance Appraisal Instrument) evaluator's guide
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Bird, Jim, Ullrich, Annette
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: The purpose of the PKKTPAI Evaluator’s Guide is to inform those involved in the teacher evaluation process, which is carried out through the North Carolina (NC) Office of School Readiness, Teacher Licensure Unit (OSR/TLU) . It contains step-by-ste...

Title: Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment
Author: Holcomb, Scott, Li, Zhi, Ferrara, Angela, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Curriculum-based assessment
Description: This study gathered information from practitioners on their perspectives of experiences implementing the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (NC KEA). Initially, practitioners were invited to complete an online survey asking them to rate ...

Title: Recommendations for the implementation of a statewide formative assessment process
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela, Holcomb, Scott
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Early childhood assessments should be used to guide teaching and learning, identify students that may potentially need interventions, and improve educational programs (NAEYC and NAECS/SDE, 2003). Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEA) are implemente...

Title: Resource manual for administrators and principals supervising and evaluating teachers of young children
Author: Lambert, Richard, de Kort-Young, Anne Marie, Rowland, Bobbie, Vestal, Amanda
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education, Elementary school administration
Description: This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others directly involved in providing appropriate, high-quality preschool and kindergarten programs for young children in both public...

Title: Resource manual for administrators and principals supervising and evaluating teachers of young children
Author: Lambert, Richard, Rowland, Bobbie, Taylor, Heather, Wheeler, Cindy
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Teachers--Rating of
Description: This Manual is a practical guide especially created for early childhood principals, administrators, teachers, and others who are directly involved in providing high-quality preschool and kindergarten programs for young children in both public and ...

Title: Selecting statistical procedures for multi-level data : examining relationships between principal authenticity and teacher trust and engagement
Author: Wang, Chuang, Bird, Jim
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Quantitative research
Description: It is a common practice in educational research to model treatment variables at the classroom level rather than at the student level. Students are naturally nested within classrooms in the educational system; therefore, randomly assigning students...

Title: Social studies under siege : examining policy and teacher-level factors associated with elementary social studies marginalization
Author: Heafner, Tina, Fitchett, Paul, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences--Study and teaching (Elementary), Elementary school teachers
Description: Utilizing data from National Center for Educational Statistics Schools and Staffing Surveys, researchers examined the association between various teacher-level factors and state policy-level indicators associated with reported elementary social st...

Title: Technical manual (2nd edition) for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Educational tests and measurements--Evaluation
Description: The measurement properties of any new assessment instrument should be rigorously examined and the results made available to stakeholders.The first version of the technical manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (Lambert, Kim, Ta...