Megan E Streams
Biographic Data
| ID | 370588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan E Streams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Streams |
| SIGNATURE | STREAMS M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4582-9608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public Employee Quality in a Geographic Context
Recruiting high quality employees is one of the key functions of public human resource managers and a critical component of effective public service delivery. This is particularly true in education but little is known about public sector or teacher hiring patterns in areas that are predominantly rural, poor, and isolated from other locales. This article begins to fill that gap. We find that rural educational agencies employ the new teachers of lo…
Can a Single Performance Metric Do It All? A Case Study in Education Accountability
Public administrators are committed to improving public service delivery, as evidenced by decades of accountability efforts at all levels of government. This movement is especially salient in the public education system, where student standardized test scores are increasingly used as the key performance metric to evaluate schools, teachers - and most recently - teacher preparation program (TPP) effectiveness. Evaluating TPPs using a single quanti…
Capturing the Insights of Family Caregivers
The usefulness of qualitative methodologies to augment and enrich quantitative studies is often overlooked. The authors’goals are to describe the qualitative process employed to generate survey items and to compare the results to those of studies that used different methodologies for item generation. The study identified barriers to and benefits of memory assessments. The survey item generation methodology, which involved 24 key informant intervi…
Public Employee Quality in a Geographic Context
Recruiting high quality employees is one of the key functions of public human resource managers and a critical component of effective public service delivery. This is particularly true in education but little is known about public sector or teacher hiring patterns in areas that are predominantly rural, poor, and isolated from other locales. This article begins to fill that gap. We find that rural educational agencies employ the new teachers of lo…
Can a Single Performance Metric Do It All? A Case Study in Education Accountability
Public administrators are committed to improving public service delivery, as evidenced by decades of accountability efforts at all levels of government. This movement is especially salient in the public education system, where student standardized test scores are increasingly used as the key performance metric to evaluate schools, teachers - and most recently - teacher preparation program (TPP) effectiveness. Evaluating TPPs using a single quanti…
Capturing the Insights of Family Caregivers
The usefulness of qualitative methodologies to augment and enrich quantitative studies is often overlooked. The authors’goals are to describe the qualitative process employed to generate survey items and to compare the results to those of studies that used different methodologies for item generation. The study identified barriers to and benefits of memory assessments. The survey item generation methodology, which involved 24 key informant intervi…
Capturing the Insights of Family Caregivers
The usefulness of qualitative methodologies to augment and enrich quantitative studies is often overlooked. The authors’goals are to describe the qualitative process employed to generate survey items and to compare the results to those of studies that used different methodologies for item generation. The study identified barriers to and benefits of memory assessments. The survey item generation methodology, which involved 24 key informant intervi…
Can a Single Performance Metric Do It All? A Case Study in Education Accountability
Public administrators are committed to improving public service delivery, as evidenced by decades of accountability efforts at all levels of government. This movement is especially salient in the public education system, where student standardized test scores are increasingly used as the key performance metric to evaluate schools, teachers - and most recently - teacher preparation program (TPP) effectiveness. Evaluating TPPs using a single quanti…
Public Employee Quality in a Geographic Context
Recruiting high quality employees is one of the key functions of public human resource managers and a critical component of effective public service delivery. This is particularly true in education but little is known about public sector or teacher hiring patterns in areas that are predominantly rural, poor, and isolated from other locales. This article begins to fill that gap. We find that rural educational agencies employ the new teachers of lo…
Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · School Choice and Performance (2 works) · Academic achievement (1 work) · Accountability (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work)