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Title
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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Measure of Preservice Teacher Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
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Author
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Ellison, Antoinette
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Teachers--Training of, Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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Recent literature on school improvement indicates that teacher quality has a large impact on student learning (Aaronson, Barrow, & Sander, 2007; Rivkin, Hanushek & Kane, 2005; Hanushek, Kane, O'Brien, & Rivkin, (2005); Nye, Konstantopoulos, Hedges...
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Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
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Creator
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Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
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Date Created
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2005-01-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
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Description
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In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...
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Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
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Creator
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Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
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Date Created
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2005-01-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
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Description
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In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...
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Calvin and Naomi Davis oral history interview, 2004 November 23
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Creator
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Davis, Calvin C., 1925-2007
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Date Created
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2004-11-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Education--Parent participation, Educational tests and measurements, African American teachers, School discipline, Segregation in education, School integration, Students--Academic workload, Students--Attitudes
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Description
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Calvin and Naomi Davis describe their experiences as students, teachers, parents, and grandparents in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, and reflect on the significant changes in education during their lifetimes. They discuss both the challe...
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Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
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Author
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Hujar, Julia
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
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Description
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Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...
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Effects of Diagnostic Progress Monitroing Feedback on Early Literacy Student Achievement
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Author
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Lopuch, Jeremy
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Special education, Educational psychology, Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of diagnostic formative assessment feedback on early literacy skills. The participants were 12 first-grade general education teachers and 51 of their students who were assigned to the following ...
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Effects of task training on kindergarten students' performance on early literacy measures
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Author
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Mackiewicz, Sara
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Special education, Reading, Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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The use of early literacy screening measures helps determine which students are at risk for future reading difficulties. However, there has been some recent concern related to the classification validity of screening measures (Hintze, Ryan, & Ston...
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Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon oral history interview, 2005 November 18
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Creator
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Wright, Mildred, 1933-
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Date Created
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2005-11-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School management and organization, Education--Philosophy, Multicultural education, Educational assessment, Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon discuss their experiences with Irwin Elementary School and open education in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Wright was a teacher and principal at Irwin Elementary from the 1970s-1990s and talks about the concept ...
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Mildred Wright oral history interview 2, 2006 February 22
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Creator
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Wright, Mildred, 1933-
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Date Created
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2006-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Child development, School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Educational assessment, Magnet schools, Educational leadership, De facto school segregation
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Description
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In this last of three interviews with Mildred Wright, Ms. Wright discusses her career in education, particularly her role as principal at Coulwood Middle School and Thomasboro School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Wright explains how the approa...
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Providing Equal Access to English Learners in Educational Settings
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Author
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Gezer, Tuba
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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This three-article format dissertation examined fairness in testing English Learners (EL) in K-12 schools in the United States (US). In the first article, a meta-analysis was conducted to summarize EL computer-based testing (CBT) accommodations re...
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPARATIVE APPRAISAL OF PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS FOR PRINCIPALS
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Author
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Maerz, Drew
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership, Educational tests and measurements, School management and organization
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to develop the Comparative Appraisal of perceived Resources and Demands for Principals (CARD-P), which is used for appraising perceived stress in the elementary school principalship. An appraisal-based definition of s...