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Angela Renae Codron – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined a differentiated, bottom-up approach to school improvement planning through exploration of the qualities that make up a highly effective school department team as it related to their ability to create and meet a student-centered, data driven high achievement goal. While there are a multitude of factors that affect the ability…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Educational Improvement, Cooperative Planning, Program Effectiveness
Zipi Diamond; Rowan Hilty; Holly Keaton; Catherine Schaefer; Keiyitho Omonuwa – Child Trends, 2024
In March 2022, Child Trends contracted with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct an independent evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early care and education (ECE) programs. The evaluation, required by the 2021 Minnesota Legislature, includes several research activities…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation
Miguel M. Gonzales; Tiber Garza; Elizabeth Leon-Zaragoza – Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the network effect of school principals as it relates to school improvement. Network practices of school principals are compared to an innovative practice for improving networking practices. Through descriptive statistics and chi-square goodness of fit, we illustrate the difference between what school…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Principals, Administrator Role, Social Networks
Kelly Peterfriend – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Wise Ways School District (pseudonym) is a public school district in northern New Jersey which consists of grades K-12. The high school is a four-year comprehensive institution that serves 583 students in 9th-12th grade. Wise Ways High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school whose goal is to address the needs of all of its students.…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, High Schools, Educational Improvement, Intervention
H. Alix Gallagher; Benjamin W. Cottingham; Leah Faw – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2025
The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9
Juan D’Brot; W. Chris Brandt – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Evaluation is a critical component of continuous improvement in education. Robust evaluations enable engaged parties to determine program and intervention impact on key outcomes, identify areas for improvement, and guide future actions. Additionally, as educational systems increasingly focus on data-driven decisionmaking, evaluation becomes even…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Program Evaluation, Educational Practices
Mallika Stubbs – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study evaluated the effects of the Comprehensive Supports and Improvement (CSI) program on the performance of fifty-six participating schools after one year of school improvement technical assistance. Specifically, it investigated whether the geographic locations of schools, the percentage of inexperienced teachers, and school…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement
Brent David Snow – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators, economists, and sociologists have long discussed how best to measure the value of education in society. Since the Coleman Report was published in 1966, indicating that America's students were falling behind, there has been increased scrutiny on ensuring teachers are effective in the classroom and that students are learning and growing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Prediction, Educational Improvement
Sharon Greenberg; Anthony S. Bryk – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Districts are struggling to accelerate students' learning, support their health and wellness, and close the achievement gap. Labeled "worst" in 1987, by 2017 Chicago Public Schools was among the nation's most improved school systems. Chicago's story embeds many lessons about system change. Sharon Greenberg and Anthony S. Bryk illustrate…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Capacity Building
Kathy Kremer – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
Colleges and universities depend upon external approvals from accreditors, government agencies, and national organizations. These approvals require periodic review of institution-prepared reports and self-studies documenting the continued validity of offered degrees and programs, student support and success, institutional effectiveness, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Professional Continuing Education, Data Collection
Lam D. Pham; Sean P. Corcoran; Gary T. Henry; Ron Zimmer – American Educational Research Journal, 2025
Whole-school reforms have received widespread attention, but a critical limitation of the current literature is the lack of evidence around whether these extensive and costly interventions improve students' long-term outcomes after they leave reform schools. Leveraging Tennessee's statewide turnaround reforms, we use difference-in-differences…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, School Turnaround, Academic Achievement
Kevin Barlow – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
The state of Texas requires that each district and campus write an annual improvement plan (Texas Education Code, n.d.b). Although this study was conducted in Texas concerning Texas districts and campuses, it would be reasonable to assume that most, if not all, of the other states in the U.S. have similar improvement planning processes. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Program Effectiveness
Verleen K. Mcsween – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
Successful retention of STEM majors that then successfully transition into the U.S. STEM workforce is a major challenge for institutions of higher education. The present work represents a quality improvement study of a custom-designed professional development course for undergraduate students characterized by an innovative integration of workforce…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, STEM Education, Biomedicine, Undergraduate Students
Mallory Benedetto; Anne Case Hanks; Megan Lowe – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2024
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at the University of Louisiana at Monroe aimed to improve academic performance in two gateway science courses that are required for all STEM and pre-health sciences majors and are known to be barriers to student success. The project sought to achieve this primarily by a course redesign that incorporated an extra…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Course Content, STEM Education
Tashane Haynes Brown; Carol Hordatt Gentles – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
This review of initial teacher education (ITE) in Jamaica highlights the policies, pivotal events, educational initiatives and reforms that have shaped the landscape of teacher education in Jamaica over the last 50 years. It offers a critical reflection on the provision of ITE and the findings of a recent report on education in Jamaica, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Criticism, Barriers
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