Many units on the CU Boulder campus have been working in partnership with the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Inititiative to better align their teaching evaluation practices with known scholarship ...

While teacher evaluations remain a controversial topic in education reform, the Achievement First charter school in Bridgeport, Conn. uses a model of consistent evaluation, feedback and other ...

In today’s evidence-driven world, there is increasing demand for researchers with the skills to design, conduct, and evaluate studies that help institutions and schools improve their decision-making ...

Miami University stresses the importance of high-quality teaching and its impact on student learning and recognizes that there are differing professional views on the nature and utility of evaluation ...

The Teaching Quality Framework Initiative (TQF) has developed a toolkit of resources for departmental change efforts related to transforming teaching evaluation. This Toolkit is meant to provide ...

As the population of English learners continues to grow nationwide, states and school districts need effective ways to determine whether programming for these students is meeting their social and ...

Focus groups are a fast and effective way to elicit information and perspectives from a variety of key informants simultaneously. In public health, it is often a standard research methodology that is ...

One of the essential functions of public health is evaluating the effectiveness and quality of population-based health services. To do this, health professionals and lawmakers must understand the true ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rick Hess is a scholar who writes about K-12 and higher education. This article is more than 7 years old. Last week, RAND issued ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story cited an incorrect figure for the share of K-2 early reading and special education teachers who said they use Fountas and Pinnell’s Leveled Literacy ...