New evidence concerning school accountability and mathematics instructional quality in the no child left behind eraJournal of Personnel Evaluation in Education - Tập 31 - Trang 409-436 - 2019
Seth B. Hunter
Using longitudinal data from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era, I applied regression techniques and found a positive association between school failure to reach “adequate yearly progress” in mathematics and subsequent changes in the quality of middle grades mathematics instruction in districts where district leaders adopted robust theories of action for improving mathematics instruction. The pos...... hiện toàn bộ
Elementary teachers’ perceptions of data-driven decision-makingJournal of Personnel Evaluation in Education - Tập 33 - Trang 317-344 - 2021
Natalie Schelling, Lisa DaVia Rubenstein
Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) refers to the process of using data to inform educational decisions. Due to DDDM’s positive effects on student achievement and the pressure for educational accountability, DDDM has become a recent focus of numerous educational policies. However, few teachers fully utilize DDDM. While, broadly, DDDM may use various types of data to make different types of decision...... hiện toàn bộ
An international comparison investigating the relationship between national culture and student achievementJournal of Personnel Evaluation in Education - Tập 25 - Trang 159-177 - 2013
Zheng Fang, Leslie W. Grant, Xianxuan Xu, James H. Stronge, Thomas J. Ward
The purpose of this study was to examine the connections between national culture and student achievement. Using Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions and the two dimensions from the World Values survey, we conducted multiple regressions to determine the most significant predictors of student achievement as measured by the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment in reading, mathematics, and...... hiện toàn bộ