In this case 100 % of respondents, both principals and CTs, either agreed or strongly agreed that they
saw positive changes in teaching practice take place as a
result of the
district's PSP program (
see Figure 3).
If test
results show significant widespread gains in student
results temporally associated with
district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are
seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that
district reform efforts are having a
positive impact on student learning.