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Dan Reynolds; Brianna Rae Kemper; Kristin Collette – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
While adolescent foundational skills interventions can be critical levers for reading improvement, district leaders, teachers, and researchers must make complex decisions about how to evaluate their effectiveness in context. In this discussion article, we explore three issues and tensions we experienced during a 2-year research-practice…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Urban Areas, School Districts
Hinds, Drew Samuel Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Alternative high schools serve some of the most vulnerable students and their programs present a significant challenge to evaluate. Determining the impact of an alternative high school that serves mostly at-risk students presented a significant research problem. Few studies exist that dig deeper into the characteristics and strategies of…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High School Students, Program Effectiveness, At Risk Students
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Smith, Carol L.; Wiser, Marianne; Anderson, Charles W. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2006
This article presents the authors' response to the commentaries on their article. They focus on two important issues raised by most of the reviewers: (a) the curricular dependence of the proposed learning progression and the daunting (twin) challenges of bringing about changes in curriculum and assessment and consolidating and validating the…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Evaluation Methods, Epistemology, Science Education
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Blasi, Laura; Alfonso, Berta – Simulation & Gaming, 2006
Building and evaluating artifacts specifically for K-12 education, technologists committed to design sciences are needed along with an approach to evaluation increasing the systemic transfer from research and development into school settings. The authors describe THE VIRTUAL LAB scanning electronic microscope simulation, including (a) its…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Formative Evaluation, Science Laboratories, Qualitative Research