School districts in Arizona that piloted new teacher evaluation models in 2012/13 used multiple m... more School districts in Arizona that piloted new teacher evaluation models in 2012/13 used multiple measures. Information from surveys and focus groups indicates that teachers and principals in these districts view standardsbased teacher observations as the most credible form of evaluation but are open to incorporating student performance and stakeholder survey measures if they are comprehensible, fair, and consistent. Some 39 percent of surveyed teachers from pilot districts agreed that their final classification under the new system accurately reflected their performance, 32 percent indicated that it did not, and 30 percent were undecided. At WestEd
The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment is an optional module of the California Healthy Kids Surve... more The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment is an optional module of the California Healthy Kids Survey. This module is intended to serve as a tool for local and state educational agencies and researchers to use in assessing and understanding a variety of external and internal resilience factors associated with positive youth development. It will enable the collection of local and statewide youth resilience data for use in needs assessment, program planning, program evaluation, and research. Ultimately this module should help advance the field's understanding of the network of relationships between protective factors, resilience traits, health promoting behaviors, and other positive developmental outcomes.
Since its establishment as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Science... more Since its establishment as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Science Education (OSE) has engaged in the development of educational materials with a focus on medicine and biological research. One product of this effort is a series of research-based curriculum supplements designed to help students in grades K-12 meet objectives of the National Science Education Standards (NSES). These supplements were available free of charge on the NIH website, with about 15,000 requests already made at the start of this ...
School districts in Arizona that piloted new teacher evaluation models in 2012/13 used multiple m... more School districts in Arizona that piloted new teacher evaluation models in 2012/13 used multiple measures. Information from surveys and focus groups indicates that teachers and principals in these districts view standardsbased teacher observations as the most credible form of evaluation but are open to incorporating student performance and stakeholder survey measures if they are comprehensible, fair, and consistent. Some 39 percent of surveyed teachers from pilot districts agreed that their final classification under the new system accurately reflected their performance, 32 percent indicated that it did not, and 30 percent were undecided. At WestEd
The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment is an optional module of the California Healthy Kids Surve... more The Healthy Kids Resilience Assessment is an optional module of the California Healthy Kids Survey. This module is intended to serve as a tool for local and state educational agencies and researchers to use in assessing and understanding a variety of external and internal resilience factors associated with positive youth development. It will enable the collection of local and statewide youth resilience data for use in needs assessment, program planning, program evaluation, and research. Ultimately this module should help advance the field's understanding of the network of relationships between protective factors, resilience traits, health promoting behaviors, and other positive developmental outcomes.
Since its establishment as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Science... more Since its establishment as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of Science Education (OSE) has engaged in the development of educational materials with a focus on medicine and biological research. One product of this effort is a series of research-based curriculum supplements designed to help students in grades K-12 meet objectives of the National Science Education Standards (NSES). These supplements were available free of charge on the NIH website, with about 15,000 requests already made at the start of this ...
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