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Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
Published in: Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability 4/2016

18-08-2015

Developing and assessing educator beliefs about the common core

Authors: Yi-Hwa Liou, Nienke M. Moolenaar, Alan J. Daly

Published in: Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability | Issue 4/2016

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Abstract

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) potentially shifts the way US schools approach teaching and learning. Research suggests that it is important to understand how educators view the CCSS and how they believe the CCSS may impact their practice. We developed and tested an instrument to investigate educator beliefs about the implementation of CCSS. We collected data from two samples of educators regarding their beliefs about the CCSS in mid-size school districts in California that had begun to introduce the CCSS. Our results indicate that the instrument consistently measured three interrelated, yet distinct, sub-constructs of educator beliefs about the CCSS implementation and that the sub-constructs are statistically significantly associated with trust, professional knowledge, and the pattern of CCSS-related professional interaction.
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For more information regarding the multilevel modeling, please refer to Zijlstra et al., 2008; and Zijlstra et al., 2006.
 
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Title
Developing and assessing educator beliefs about the common core
Authors
Yi-Hwa Liou
Nienke M. Moolenaar
Alan J. Daly
Publication date
18-08-2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 1874-8597
Electronic ISSN: 1874-8600
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11092-015-9227-4

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