After the passage of "No Child Left Behind," and especially after Obama-era Race to the Top initiatives, rising accountability for improved achievement and widespread dissatisfaction with the instructional value of statewide test reports led many school districts to purchase computer-adaptive "interim" testing systems. A common…

There is often confusion about distinctions between growth models and value-added models. The first half of this paper attempts to dispel some of these confusions by clarifying terminology and illustrating by example how the results from a large-scale assessment can and will be used to make inferences about student growth and the value-added…

Maintains that, if national geography standards are effective, issues-based instructional materials are needed. Reports on a study of the use of 3 modules on environmental education by 480 secondary students in 18 schools. Finds that the students made significant cognitive and skill gains. (CFR)

A five-year program, part of the Experimental Schools Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, in San Antonio, Texas, was designed to improve the school performance of its predominantly bilingual Mexican American primary grade students by improving the attitudes of beginning students. Program changes to reverse students' anticipated…

Intended to encourage promising and fresh ideas in education research, the Field Initiated Studies (FIS) Program in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) supports a varied array of research projects that are proposed and justified by the applicants. Of the 29 projects described here, 12 were funded in 1990 and 17 in 1991. The…

OUR EDUCATIONAL, GOVERNMENTAL, RELIGIOUS, AND COMMUNITY AGENCIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PREPARING INDIVIDUALS NOT ONLY FOR A WORLD OF WORK BUT MORE BASICALLY FOR A WORLD OF RAPID AND DRAMATIC CHANGE. AN 8-STATE COOPERATIVE PROJECT CALLED "DESIGNING EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE" HAS MADE AN EFFORT TO PREDICT CHANGES WHICH SOCIETY WILL EXPERIENCE…

The rationale of this study was that a planned, systematic approach was necessary to identify major problems in educating American Indians, to analyze the problems, to determine the evidence needed for solutions, and to indicate research and developmental needs and priorities. Thus, this study consisted of 3 major phases: (1) identification of 20…

This volume is the further examination of: (1) the impact of the Title VII program, based on student outcome data collected after the publication of Volume One in 1976 and on the continued examination of Volume One data; and (2) educational processes and outcomes found in the Impact Study classrooms. In the first section, a detailed discussion is…