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Title: A Comparison of Developmental Mathematics Sequences at a North Carolina Community College Using a Markov Chain Model
Author: Peeler, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation
Description: This study compares students at a North Carolina community college taking a course-based developmental mathematics sequence to students taking a new, module-based emporium method developmental mathematics sequence using a Markov chain model to com...

Title: A Systematic Approach To Interrater Reliability In Early Childhood Teacher Performance Evaluations
Author: Bottoms, Bryndle
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation
Description: Teacher evaluations are routinely conducted across the United States for licensure and professional development supports. However, there is limited research on the interrater reliability of these evaluation assessment systems, despite federal reco...

Title: An Evaluation of Best Practices in Online Continuing Theological Education
Author: Raybon, Stephen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Continuing education, Religious education
Description: ABSTRACTSTEPHEN PAUL RAYBON An evaluation of best practices in online continuing theological education (Under the direction of JOHN A. GRETES) The principle purpose of this mixed methods case study was to evaluate the extent to which a wholly onli...

Title: An Exploration of Comparability Issues in Educational Research: Scale Linking, Equating, and Propensity Score Weighting
Author: Wu, Tong
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: This three-article dissertation aims to address three methodological challenges to ensure comparability in educational research, including scale linking, test equating, and propensity score (PS) weighting. The first study intends to improve test s...

Title: Does ‘Working After Work’ Affect Teachers’ Confidence? Examining Teacher Efficacy in a Professional Development Program
Author: Gartlan, Scott
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Training of
Description: This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explana...

Title: Educational Leadership Coaches' Development of Domain Specific Expertise: A Phenomenological Study
Author: Lewis, Janice
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational evaluation, School management and organization
Description: Districts and schools having high poverty and low achievement experience the highest rates of administrator turnover. A recent paradigm shift promotes "coaching" as a supportive and focused intervention that might move the district and/or school f...

Title: Establishing time-continuous normative scores for Teaching Strategies GOLD® using a multilevel growth curve modeling approach
Author: Luce, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: Young children are assessed to meet federal mandates and inform policy decisions, provide teachers with useful information to make instructional decisions and set reasonable learning goals, and facilitate communication with families. While young c...

Title: High School Success: An Effective Intervention for Achievement and Dropout Prevention
Author: Lowder, Christopher
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational evaluation, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this mixed-design study was to use quantitative and qualitative research to explore the effects of High School Success (a course for at-risk ninth graders) and its effectiveness on student achievement, attendance, and dropout preven...

Title: Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement: Evaluation of an Alternative Chance-Corrected Agreement Coefficient
Author: Holcomb, Timothy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements, Educational evaluation
Description: In this study, the performance of the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-Mediated Agreement was evaluated with other chance-corrected agreement coefficients. Lambda is grounded in rater-mediated assessment theory and was developed as an alternative to Ka...

Title: Students' Perceptions of Early Childhood Program Quality According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards
Author: Javidi, Farhad
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the extent to which one community college was preparing its early childhood education students for employment in the field according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) p...

Title: What are the differences between effective and ineffective charter schools?
Author: Stone, Cedric
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation
Description: ABSTRACTThis purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the North Carolina charter schools. The variables were chosen based on the researcher's inference from literature reviews discussing common factors from qualitative charter...