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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: 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: A Case Study of Diversity in North Carolina Architecture Programs
Author: Roberts, Isaiah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Educational evaluation, Education
Description: The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only...

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: 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: An Evaluation of Teaching Methods in the Introductory Physics Classroom
Author: Savage, Lauren
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Physics, Educational evaluation
Description: The introductory physics mechanics course at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has a history of relatively high DFW rates. In 2011, the course was redesigned from the traditional lecture format to the inverted classroom format (flipped...

Title: An Evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a Large Urban School District
Author: Rosenbach, Laura
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational evaluation, Education and state
Description: LAURA JULIA ROSENBACH. An evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a large urban school district. (Under the direction of DR. CLAUDIA FLOWERS) This mixed method study examined the impact of a district-wide Strategic Staffing Initiative (SS...

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: 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: 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: EVALUATING A PRENATAL, BREASTFEEDING EDUCATIONAL VIDEO’S INFLUENCE ON PROTECTIVE RESOURCES, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, AND BREASTFEEDING OUTCOMES
Author: Godly-Reynolds, Erin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Barring major medical conditions (e.g., HIV), breastfeeding is widely recognized as the healthiest feeding option for babies. In the United States, approximately three out of every four mothers initiate breastfeeding; however, less than one in fiv...

Title: Evaluation of an Online Educational Intervention to Increase Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Disaster Responders and Critical Care Transporters Caring for Individuals with Developmental Disability
Author: Edinger, Zachariah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Educational evaluation
Description: Individuals with developmental disabilities experience more negative outcomes due to natural and manmade disasters and emergencies than do people without disabilities. Considering the large number of individuals in the United States with a disabil...

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: 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: Evidence supporting the use of GOLD with kindergarten children
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (GOLD) is a formative assessment system that has been designed and extensively validated for use with young children ages birth to kindergarten. For a thorough review of the process of developing the meas...

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: Examining the psychometric properties of the North Carolina Kindergartern Entry Assessment
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterio...

Title: Findings from the 2014 North Carolina kindergarten entry formative assessment pilot
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: In response to the requirements of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant and a mandate from the North Carolina (NC) State Legislature requiring the development of a kindergarten entry assessment, NC Superintendent June Atkinson organi...

Title: Findings from the 2015 statewide implementation of the North Carolina K-3 formative assessment process : kindergarten entry assessment
Author: Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: During the first 60 instructional days of the 2015-2016 academic year, the Office of Early Learning (OEL) at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction implemented a new formative assessment process in all kindergarten classrooms in the s...