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Quinn, David M.; Kim, James S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
Theory and empirical work suggest that teachers' social capital influences school improvement efforts. Social ties are prerequisite for social capital, yet little causal evidence exists on how malleable factors, such as instructional management approaches, affect teachers' ties. In this cluster-randomized trial, we apply a decision-making…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Decision Making, Summer Programs, Reading Programs
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Glazer, Joshua L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
This article discusses a dilemma that confronts reformers who seek to improve the education system yet operate from a position outside that system. On one hand, "external" reformers have found that the implementation of school-level programs is attenuated by a lack of coherence and support in schools' environment. Districts and states…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Problems, Change Strategies
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Henry, Gary T.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Thompson, Charles L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
Evaluating the impacts of public school funding on student achievement has been an important objective for informing education policymaking but fraught with data and methodological limitations. Findings from prior research have been mixed at best, leaving policymakers with little advice about the benefits of allocating public resources to schools…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Regression (Statistics)
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Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen E.; Resnick, Lauren B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
This study investigates the influence of a school's pre-existing social resources on the implementation of a comprehensive literacy-coaching program (Content-Focused Coaching [CFC]). Elementary schools were randomly assigned to receive a CFC-trained coach (n = 15 schools) or to continue with the literacy coaching resources that are standard for…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Teacher Collaboration, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods
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Shoemaker, David M. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
Improving achievement testing depends on advances in the conceptualization of the skill domains on which student achievement is assessed. Discussed are the nature, elements, and construction of necessary frameworks for the skill domains of interest. Construction includes strategies for determining component skills, interrelationships among…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Improvement Programs, Models, Program Development
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Correnti, Richard – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
The author examined the effects of professional development (PD) on literacy instruction using 75,689 lessons from 1,945 classrooms in 112 schools participating in the Study of Instructional Improvement. Stratifying over 94 pretreatment covariates, including prior instruction, the results revealed the importance of PD as a lever for changing…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Literacy, Professional Development, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Wehmeyer, Lillian B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
The evaluation design described was used to aid the governing board to reach a policy decision about expanding the California Early Childhood Education program (renamed the School Improvement Program) in the Lafayette School District. Descriptions of procedures, question formats, audiences involved, and results are included. (MH)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education, Educational Planning