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Bieber, Jeff – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1998
A randomized survey of Kentucky college and university faculty showed they were more familiar with the Kentucky Education Reform Act's goals than with assessment or accountability issues. Most support restructuring goals but do not believe that KERA-educated students will be better prepared to enter their institutions than formerly. KERA has not…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Focus Groups, Higher Education
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Inst. on Education Reform. – 1995
This report describes what schools and educators across Kentucky are doing to implement school reform in school-based decision-making based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). The School-Based Decision Making (SBDM) component of KERA is a decentralized governance structure that vests great authority in SBDM councils operating at…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Petrosko, Joseph M. – 1993
An analysis was made of the methods being used to assess the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990. Although no single assessment plan has been developed, various activities are aimed at studying both the implementation and the impact of the law. Four assessment efforts are described as conducted by the following groups: (1) the Office of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Kentucky School Boards Association, Frankfort. – 1995
This report describes the attitudes of district school board members about the implementation of school reforms based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Information on attitudes toward KERA was gathered by a mail-out, 11-page questionnaire sent to a random sample of 600 local school board members. The questionnaire asked for the…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Inst. on Education Reform. – 1995
This report describes two studies on the extent of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Technology System (KETS), part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Study 1 was an external evaluation using 8 university field observers (names are given); study 2 was a self-assessment study using 47 anonymous district technology…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Assessment
Notes from the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 1998
As part of an 8-year study of education reform in rural Kentucky, this report examines the primary program that has evolved in six rural elementary schools as a result of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which requires that grades K-3 be replaced by a nongraded program. This change aimed to eliminate failure in the first 2 years of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Louisville Univ., KY. School of Education. – 1995
This report describes what schools and educators across Kentucky are doing to implement school reform in performance assessment based on the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). It provides research-based suggestions about how implementation of programs can be enhanced and how the benefits of reform increased for the Kentucky youth.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Program Evaluation
Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY. – 1994
In 1988, the Jefferson County Public Schools, in Louisville (Kentucky), received an initial planning grant from the Program for Student Achievement of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to focus on three "highs" in education--high content, high expectations, and high support. The school district chose three middle schools to participate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Bridge, Connie; And Others – 1996
This report details results of the 1995-96 study of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) Preschool Programs, the fifth such evaluation of the state-mandated preschool programs of at-risk 4-year-old children and 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities. Following an executive summary and explanation of the methodology for the evaluation, this…
Descriptors: Attendance, Blacks, Disabilities, Educational Change