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Gomez, Celia J.; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Cannon, Jill S. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are designed to assess, improve, and communicate the quality of early care and education programs. Using administrative data, we investigated whether providers that participated in a county-level QRIS saw increases to their global quality (tier) rating, domain-specific quality ratings, and scores on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Stipek, Deborah – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
The use of the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to improve early childhood education program quality is based in part on assumptions that the quality of programs can be measured and that quality ratings are associated with meaningful differences in learning outcomes for children. This report reviews all of the state QRIS validation…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Educational Improvement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Fancsali, Cheri; Abe, Yasuyo; Pyatigorsky, Mikhail; Ortiz, Lorena; Chan, Vincent; Saltares, Eliana; Toby, Megan; Schellinger, Adam; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2015
The Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework was developed by WestEd's Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) two decades ago to help teachers provide the literacy support students need to be successful readers in the content areas. It has since reached over 100,000 teachers in schools across the country, at the middle school, high school, and…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Content Area Reading, Metacognition, Program Implementation
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Dabach, Dafney Blanca – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
This study investigates how teachers interact with immigrant-origin youth in school-based contexts of reception that mediate youth's educational opportunities. One understudied context is sheltered instruction, where English learners (ELs) are placed into separate content-area courses to target their linguistic needs. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Classroom Environment, English Language Learners, Teacher Attitudes
FOLLIS, LEE; KING, ARTHUR R. – 1961
AN INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION PROJECT UTILIZED CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION AS A MEDIUM OF CLASSROOM OBSERVATION. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION COULD MAKE STAFF INTERVISITATION MORE EFFECTIVE. CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION WAS USED IN 46 INSERVICE EDUCATION SESSIONS AND 51 SESSIONS WITH OTHER RELATED SCHOOL PURPOSES DURING THE…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Closed Circuit Television, Elementary Education
Cratty, Bryant J.; Szczepanik, Sister Mark – 1971
First graders (105 males and 152 females) from 16 "Central City" schools within the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles were selected because they were diagnosed as poorly prepared for regular classroom activities. Following the administration of a six-category test battery, the children were placed within two groups: Group 1, containing…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Catholic Schools, Class Activities, Classroom Environment