Euclid may have been among the first to note that" the whole is the sum of its parts." But
surely he was not describing" the curriculum." Given our experience over the several months …

" Over the past quarter-century, no development in the social sciences has been more
radical than the revolution—often referred to as the information processing revolution—in …

This nonexperimental, longitudinal field study examines the extent to which variation in
observed classroom supports (quality of emotional and instructional interactions and amount …

The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System measures teacher effectiveness on the
basis of student gains, implicitly controlling for socioeconomic status and other background …

Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) have been used extensively for value-added analysis,
adjusting for important student and school-level covariates such as socioeconomic status. A …

Longitudinal, student performance-based, value-added accountability models have become
popular of late and continue to enjoy increasing popularity. Such models require student …

Teaching effectiveness has become one of the most controversial issues in higher
education, as pressures of student riots in the 1960's were followed by financial pressures …

Two experiments were done in which sixth-grade students participated in 10 ecology
lessons, each involving reading/viewing of curriculum materials plus a teaching treatment. In …

A massive proliferation has occurred in the tools of public action, in the instruments or
means used to address public problems. Whereas earlier government activity was largely …

The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual
teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with …