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Data Quality Campaign, 2016
All students deserve a great education, one that affords every opportunity for them to grow into knowledgeable and successful adults. To date, efforts to improve education have operated on a model of mass production, assuming--wrongly--that what works for some students must work for all. To change that model, students and their parents, teachers,…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, State Policy, Information Utilization, Decision Making
Education Trust, 2016
All across the country, leaders in colleges and universities are asking the same question: What can we do to improve student success, especially for the low-income students and students of color whose graduation rates often lag behind? This second practice guide: "Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes: Learning from Leading Colleges"…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Utilization, Student Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Glennie, Elizabeth J.; Rosen, Jeffrey A.; Snyder, Rebecca; Woods-Murphy, Maryann; Bassett, Katherine – National Network of State Teachers of the Year, 2017
Social and emotional competencies and skills help students succeed in school. In fact, researchers have documented significant academic gains for students who participate in social and emotional learning programs in which they can strengthen their social and emotional skills (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011). Skills…
Descriptors: Accountability, Emotional Development, Social Development, Student Development
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Diehm, Rae-Anne; Lupton, Mandy – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: This paper reports on university students' experiences of learning information literacy. Method: Phenomenography was selected as the research approach as it describes the experience from the perspective of the study participants, which in this case is a mixture of undergraduate and postgraduate students studying education at an…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Experience, Phenomenology, Foreign Countries
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Eng, Peng-Sim – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
This paper discusses how the process for IEP documentation was used in a training program for a group of young inexperienced teachers and teaching aides to effectively address the educational needs of children with diverse disabilities. Teachers at Kianh Centre in Vietnam received explicit instructions for writing effective functional individual…
Descriptors: Documentation, Special Needs Students, Individualized Education Programs, Training Methods
Betebenner, Damian W. – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2011
In this report, student growth percentiles and percentile growth projections/trajectories are introduced as a means of understanding student growth in both normative and a criterion referenced ways. With these values calculated, the author shows how growth data can be utilized in both a norm- and in a criterion-referenced manner to inform…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Growth Models, Data Analysis, Information Utilization
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Tucker, Mary L.; Gullekson, Nicole L.; McCambridge, Jim – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Business students are increasingly seeking international experience in short-term, study abroad programs to enhance their intercultural knowledge, intercultural communication skills, and global perspectives to be more competitive in the global arena. Intuitively, universities initiating these programs and the students sojourning abroad believe in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Achievement Gains