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Download full textChiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia; Herrmann, Mariesa; Hallgren, Kristin; Burkander, Paul; Wellington, Alison – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Influence, Merit Pay
Lipscomb, Stephen; Chiang, Hanley; Gill, Brian – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania plans to develop a new statewide evaluation system for teachers and principals in its public schools by school year 2013-2014. To inform the development of this evaluation system, the Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA) undertook the first phase of the Pennsylvania Teacher and Principal Evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Models, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Evaluation
Johnson, Matthew; Lipscomb, Stephen; Gill, Brian; Booker, Kevin; Bruch, Julie – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
At the request of Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers (PFT), Mathematica has developed value-added models (VAMs) that aim to estimate the contributions of individual teachers, teams of teachers, and schools to the achievement growth of their students. The authors' work in estimating value-added in Pittsburgh…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
Lipscomb, Stephen; Teh, Bing-ru; Gill, Brian; Chiang, Hanley; Owens, Antoniya – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
This report summarizes research findings and implementation practices for teacher and principal value-added models (VAMs), as a first step in the Team Pennsylvania Foundation's (Team PA) pilot project to inform the development of a full, statewide model evaluation system. We have selected 21 studies that represent key issues and findings in the…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Outcomes of Education, Principals, Models
Bulgakov-Cooke, Dina; Baenen, Nancy R. – Wake County Public School System, 2011
Instructional strategies aimed at improving achievement of low performing student subgroups in need of support were selected by the District Improvement Advisory Committee, so that WCPSS could exit District Improvement status. Impact of each initiative, which often included teacher training and coaching is examined in this implementation report.…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Improvement Programs, County School Districts, Educational Legislation
Provasnik, Stephen; Gonzales, Patrick; Miller, David – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
The "Condition of Education" summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. For the 2009 edition, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) prepared this supplemental report to take a closer look at U.S. student performance on international assessments. This special analysis examines…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
Albus, Debra; Thurlow, Martha; Bremer, Chris – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2009
The 2006-2007 school year was the eighth annual reporting period since disaggregating the performance of students with disabilities on state and district-wide assessments was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It is the fifth reporting period since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Alternative Assessment, Special Needs Students, Disabilities
Direct linkCheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2011
The present review examines research on the effects of technology use on reading achievement in K-12 classrooms. Unlike previous reviews, this review applies consistent inclusion standards to focus on studies that met high methodological standards. In addition, methodological and substantive features of the studies are investigated to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement
Altman, Jason; Thurlow, Martha; Vang, Mai – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2010
States and other educational entities receiving Part B funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) submitted their Annual Performance Reports (APRs) and Section 618 Table 6 data together to the U.S. Secretary of Education on or before February 1, 2009. These reports may have been modified during the following few months,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Measurement
Sundberg, Barbara J.; Stayrook, Nick – 1998
This report presents results from a 3-year evaluation of the Title I "Success for All" (SFA) schoolwide program being implemented at four elementary schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Alaska. SFA meets the criteria of Title I regulations and has a strong reading component with frequent assessments of student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Bowe, Branin; Cronin, John – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2005
Recently NWEA completed a project to connect the scale of the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) with NWEA's RIT scale. One large school system participated in the study, using test information from a group of over 24,000 students enrolled in third, fourth and fifth grade who took both the MSA and NWEA reading tests in the spring of 2005.…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Cutting Scores, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests
Deno, Stanley L.; And Others – 1980
Three concurrent validity studies were conducted to determine the relationship between performances on formative measures of reading and standardized achievement measures of reading. Correlational analyses for five formative measures and three standardized measures provided evidence for the validity of Words in Isolation, Words in Context, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research
Cronin, John; Bowe, Branin – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2005
Each spring, Arizona students participate in testing as part of the state's assessment program. Elementary and middle school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards--Dual Purpose Assessment (AIMS DPA) in reading, writing, and mathematics. These tests serve as an important measure of student achievement for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, State Programs, Achievement Tests, State Standards
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1994
This compendium presents the extensive range of data (including nearly 300 tables and 11 figures of data) collected in the National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP's) 1992 Reading Assessment. Chapters 1 and 2 of the compendium present the data in the context of the National Assessment Governing Board achievement levels, showing what…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Life, Professional Development
Cronin, John; McCall, Martha – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2004
Northwest Evaluation Association regularly conducts studies of alignment between the RIT scale and the scales used for statewide achievement tests. In recent years, educational experts have put increasing emphasis on the need for triangulation of student achievement information in order to assure that important educational decisions are based on…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Reading Achievement
