Sentences with phrase «school effectiveness research»
A comparison of hierarchical linear and multilevel structural equation growth models and their application in school effectiveness research
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Yet there are some clear messages, particularly from international school effectiveness research, about what makes great schools.
Professor Richard Murnane delivers the faculty speech at the 2011 HGSE convocation titled, «Five Challenges from Five Decades of School Effectiveness Research.»
The title of my talk is: «Five Challenges from Five Decades of School Effectiveness Research.»
The modern era of school effectiveness research began with Equality of Educational Opportunity, a 733 page report published by the U.S. Office of Education in July 1966.
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The Effectiveness of Whole - School Anti-bullying Programs: A Synthesis of Evaluation Research.
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of effectiveness of our teachers.
«Because you can not put a community school in place for one year — knowing what the research says about effectiveness — and start something you can't finish.»
One solution Menczer and his colleagues propose is rigorous research into the effectiveness of high school courses that help students recognize illegitimate new sources.
English - proficient foreign - national science trainees in their first 2 years of graduate school are likely to be offered a teaching assistantship instead of a research assistantship, because their lack of experience and training tends to limit their effectiveness in the research lab and because the amount of service required for a teaching assistantship (typically 20 hours / week or fewer... often much fewer) is less than for a research assistantship.
«Little research is available that demonstrates the effectiveness of STEM - focused schools in comparison with other schools or that contrasts the relative effectiveness of their different approaches on a variety of student outcomes,» the report notes.
It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.
Led by Professors Jorgen Vestbo and Ashley Woodcock from The University of Manchester's School of Biological Sciences, the research team conducted an effectiveness and safety trial of fluticasone furoate - vilanterol to manage COPD.
Research led at the Yale School of Public Health have found that the majority of published papers analyzing the cost - effectiveness of a widely used test for breast cancer used a study design that can increase bias.
An international team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center uncovered the influence of genetic variation on vaccine effectiveness after applying cutting - edge DNA sequencing technology to almost 5,000 patient blood samples.
Researchers from the University of York, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University carried out a Cochrane review to assess the impact and effectiveness of school - based intervenSchool of Tropical Medicine, South African Medical Research Council and Stellenbosch University carried out a Cochrane review to assess the impact and effectiveness of school - based intervenschool - based interventions.
Information technology and new concepts in clinical outcomes assessment are particularly well - suited to evaluating the effectiveness of naturopathic treatment protocols and are being used in research, both at naturopathic medical schools and in the offices of practicing physicians.
Researchers at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School conducted a randomized study to compare the effectiveness of the above 4 diets.
In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»
According to research presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in January 2011 (PDF, 168KB), «No other factor contributed to the change in student's achievement further than the intervention of DI.»
The Coleman Report catalyzed almost 50 years of subsequent research on school effectiveness.
While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.
The study reported here thus differs from virtually all other published research on charter schools in its reliance on experimental methods to determine the schools» effectiveness.
New research explores how Australian schools are addressing issues of bullying and cyber bullying and the perceived effectiveness of the strategies used.
This is according to new research commissioned by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Financial Education for Young People and funded by Martin Lewis OBE (founder of MoneySavingExpert.com), which conducted a survey of secondary school teachers to investigate the reach and effectiveness of financial education in schools.
* The country has come to understand the wide range of teacher quality and its crucial link to school effectiveness and student achievement, thanks in part to research ranging from Hanushek back to Bill Sanders» early work in Tennessee.
We also have research that we check into at the end of every school year with the National Dairy Council in terms of the effectiveness and impact of that specific program.
Another research team, led by Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak, directors of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at MIT, compared «long - term outcomes» of Boston charter - school students to outcomes for BPS students who had entered charter - school admission lotteries (see FiguSchool Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at MIT, compared «long - term outcomes» of Boston charter - school students to outcomes for BPS students who had entered charter - school admission lotteries (see Figuschool students to outcomes for BPS students who had entered charter - school admission lotteries (see Figuschool admission lotteries (see Figure 2).
The reports concludes with: «The small body of research focused on the effectiveness of K12 virtual schooling programs supports findings of similar studies on online courses offered in higher education.
At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.
To date, there has been relatively little research on the effectiveness of blended learning in U.S. schools, and what research does exist can not necessarily be generalized.
Existing research consistently shows large variations in teacher effectiveness, much of which is within schools as opposed to between schools.
All Kinds of Minds has provided grant money to independent researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of Schools Attuned, and that research is ongoing.
While the proponents of these NSF - sponsored math programs may be able to claim that the research shows no evidence that the programs are «ineffective,» the mathematics community, and parents who are protesting to the various school boards across the United States, can now claim that the research can not be used to support claims of superior effectiveness — or any effectiveness at all.
A recent rigorous and quantitative study by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) demonstrates the effectiveness of schools that are designed to develop these outcomes.
To be recognized, schools and districts demonstrate that their professional development programs result in improved teacher effectiveness and student learning and are consistent with a set of principles for professional development that are based on the best available research and exemplary practice.
Without a rich repository of data to draw from (such as those maintained by research consortia in cities such as Chicago and New York), DC will not be in a strong position to assess the relative effectiveness of different community, school, and classroom policies and practices.
The Ed School's work with practitioners through PPE, the Executive Education Leadership Program, and the Principals» Center provides an important opportunity for practitioners to connect with current research, assess leadership effectiveness, identify new strategies for personal and institutional success, and take time away from day - to - day work demands for professional growth and personal renewal.
But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»
The research question for educators at St Philip's Christian College in Newcastle is: What is the effectiveness of problem - based learning (PBL) in the development of... critical thinking, collaboration, and communication among Stage Four students across two schools?
Coleman's work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.
They should continue to support funding for the replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools, and they should make new investments in research and support for parent information, equitable funding and facilities, and innovative, low - regulation approaches to equity and effectiveness in schools of choice.
The methods used by the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) to analyze charter school effectiveness offer a reasonable alternative when the gold standard is not feasible or possible.
But their work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.
I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.
Moving forward, I hope to see even more research that investigates the mechanisms underlying charter school effectiveness.
Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.
Yet the latest in a series indicators of school district effectiveness by Harvard University's Strategic Data Project at its Center for Education Policy Research show many districts do not know how to place and retain these teachers to help them succeed.
While much more research is needed to understand the effectiveness of virtual schooling for students in K — 12, the small body of research available points to no significant differences in student performance in online courses versus face - to - face learning.
Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.