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Title: Disproportionality Technical Assistance Tool (DTAT) user's guide
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Wang, Chuang
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Special education
Description: “One of the most complex issues in the field of special education today, disproportionality refers to the ‘overrepresentation’ and ‘under-representation’ of a particular demographic group in special education programs relative to the presence of t...

Title: Early engagement and academic outcomes of first-year students at UNC Charlotte
Author: Dika, Sandra, D'Amico, Mark, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: College freshmen, Education, Higher
Description: Most colleges and universities are interested in increasing student success and implementing strategies to do so (Tinto, 1999). In recent years, this focus and related efforts have also translated to the higher education policy environment (see, e...

Title: What happens after transfer : engagement and success of transfer students at UNC Charlotte
Author: D'Amico, Mark, Dika, Sandra, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Transfer students, Education, Higher
Description: With the recent emphasis on college completion in institutions, states, and higher education policy environments (see, e.g., Lee et al., 2011; Reyna, 2010; Shapiro et al., 2012), it is important that colleges and universities work to ensure the su...

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: A review and analysis of school climate measures for school counseling professionals
Author: Algozzine, Bob, Olsen, Jacob, Preston, Angela, Cusumano, Dale
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Education--Environmental aspects
Description: Most professionals agree that shared beliefs, values, and attitudes that frame interactions and set standards for behavior are important to the success of the staff and students in America’s schools. Researchers have documented that student achiev...

Title: The development of a systematic approach to evaluating early childhood educators using the North Carolina teacher evaluation process
Author: Lambert, Richard, Holcomb, Scott, Bottoms, Bryndle, Vestal, Amanda
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood teachers, Teachers--Rating of
Description: This technical report serves as a guide to the systematic approach to early childhood teacher evaluation process that is implemented by the Early Educator Support Offices at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and East Carolina University. T...

Title: 2022 evaluation of Freedom School partners in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle, Luce, Hannah, Villanueva, Kristin, Herrera, Leonardo
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood), Early childhood education
Description: Freedom School Partners is a six-week, literacy-rich, summer program that has served the Charlotte area since 2004. What began as a group of 100 scholars in one site, is now more than 400 scholars and includes twelve sites (www.freedomschoolpartne...

Title: Turning data into information : helping community colleges use existing data to advance student success
Author: D'Amico, Mark, Morgan, Grant
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges, Quantitative research
Description: Community colleges are major players in addressing educational and workforce development needs nationwide, educating 43% of all undergraduate students in the United States (American Association of Community Colleges, 2010). In addition, with a mis...

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: The developmental continuum assessment system for ages 3 to 5 : the assessment component of the Creative Curriculum for Preschool
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool (CC) is the leading curricular model used by Head Start programs, according to a survey by the National Head Start Association (2000). CC is used by 39.1% of the programs, the High/Scope curriculum is used by ...

Title: The developmental continuum for infants, toddlers and twos assessment system : the assessment component of the Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers and Twos
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education--Curricula
Description: The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos is an extension of The Creative Curriculum for preschool children. As such, it is a comprehensive and integrative curricular model for early childhood programs. It is similarly rooted in a br...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This investigation is a subset of a larger study (Fitchett et al., 2020; Lambert et al., 2020; McCarthy et al., 2020) of the relationship between a teacher’s racial / ethnic congruence with the students in their school and occupational stress. Pri...

Title: Accelerated Math evaluation report
Author: Lambert, Richard, Algozzine, Bob
Subjects--Topical: Students--Rating of, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: Progress monitoring has been defined as “a practice that helps teachers use student performance data to continually evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching and make more informed instructional decisions” (Safer and Fleischman, 2005, p. 81). I...

Title: Comparing stress between elementary teachers in the United States and Germany
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ullrich, Annette, Christopher J. McCarthy
Subjects--Topical: Elementary school teachers, Burn out (Psychology)
Description: Transactional models of stress posit that perceptions of both resources and demands determine whether stress will be experienced. To test this model cross-nationally, previous research examining the relationship of elementary teachers‟ experience,...

Title: A comparison of web-based and paper-based course evaluations at UNC Charlotte
Author: Lambert, Richard, Hartshorne, Richard, Algozzine, Bob, McAlpin, Valorie
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Education, Higher
Description: Based on extant research, UNC Charlotte should consider the adoption of a university-wide, web-based course evaluation system for both formative and summative evaluations: Ratings Similarity: Web and paper results show students very favorable towa...

Title: Differences in teacher background and school structure by racial/ethnic congruence between teachers and students
Author: Lambert, Richard, Fitchett, Paul
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Differences in personal characteristics, professional qualifications, and contextual factors for congruent and incongruent Black, Hispanic, and White teachers were investigated using data from the National Teacher and Principal Survey (nteachers=2...

Title: The Early Educator Support, Licensure, and Professional Development (EESLPD) Office conceptual framework : a narrative describing supporting early childhood educators as part of the North Carolina teacher evaluation process
Author: Taylor, Heather, Vestal, Amanda, Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The components included in this conceptual framework describe the types of supports and resources provided by the EESLPD Office to guide North Carolina (NC) Birth through Kindergarten (B – K) Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) who work in public and...

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: Evaluation of the Freedom Schools program in Charlotte, NC
Author: Lambert, Richard, Butts, Missy, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom Schools project as it was implemented in Charlotte, NC during the summer of 2017. The evaluation study was a collaborative project between the Center for Adolescent Literacies (CFAL)...

Title: 2019 evaluation of the Freedom School partners in Charlotte, NC
Author: Lambert, Richard, Bottoms, Bryndle, Taylor, Bruce
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Description: This report outlines the results of an evaluation of the Freedom School Partners’ Children Defense Fund Freedom Schools© program in Charlotte, NC that took place during the summer of 2019. The evaluation was a collaboration between the Center for ...