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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: 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...

Title: Technical manual for the teaching strategies GOLD assessment system : birth through third grade edition
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: 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: 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: 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: Using Teaching Strategies GOLD to assess kindergarten readiness and track growth and development
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Burts, Diane
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education--Research
Description: This report is focused on an evaluation of the measurement properties of the scale scores and teacher ratings that result from the use of the GOLD assessment system with children in kindergarten classrooms. Several states have chosen to implement ...

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: The measurement properties of the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system : preliminary results following the winter assessment checkpoint April 2010
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
Description: Overall, the GOLD assessment system appeared to be highly reliable as indicated by the reliability statistics. Results of the factor analysis show that with very few exceptions, the items loaded onto the constructs intended by the test development...

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: Technical manual for the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Author: Lambert, Richard, Kim, Do-Hong, Taylor, Heather, McGee, Jennifer
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: Overall, the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system appears to be yield highly reliable scores as indicated by both the classical and Rasch reliability statistics. Results of the factor analyses showed that the ratings loaded onto the construc...

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: Using the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System with the creative curriculum to measure child growth and development
Author: Lambert, Richard
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Educational evaluation
Description: Teaching Strategies GOLD uses guided observation to support teachers’ use of high quality teaching through efficient documentation strategies. The validity and reliability for this assessment tool has been examined and confirmed through normative ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...