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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 ...

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: 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: Evidence for the association between scores from the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System and information from direct assessments of child progress
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Educational tests and measurements--Evaluation, Early childhood education--Evaluation
Description: This study examined the associations between scale scores obtained from a teacher observation-based authentic assessment measure, the Teaching Strategies GOLD, and (a) teacher ratings of children’s social functioning and their learning behaviors a...

Title: Examining inter-rater reliability of evaluators judging teacher performance : proposing an alternative to Cohen’s Kappa
Author: Lambert, Richard, Holcomb, Scott, Bottoms, Bryndle
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Rating of
Description: The validity of the Kappa coefficient of chance-corrected agreement has been questioned when the prevalence of specific rating scale categories is low and agreement between raters is high. The researchers proposed the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-M...

Title: Examining the inter-rater reliability of evaluators judging teacher performance : proposing an alternative to Cohen’s Kappa
Author: Lambert, Richard, Holcomb, Scott, Bottoms, Bryndle
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Teachers--Rating of
Description: The validity of the Kappa coefficient of chance-corrected agreement has been questioned when the prevalence of specific rating scale categories is low and agreement between raters is high. The researchers proposed the Lambda Coefficient of Rater-M...

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: 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: 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: 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...

Title: Technical manual (3rd edition) for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education--Evaluation
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (GOLD) is a formative assessment system that has been designed and validated for use with young children ages birth to kindergarten. The measure yields information that is rooted in the ongoing work of te...

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...