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Eaker, Robert, Ed.; Marzano, Robert J., Ed. – Solution Tree, 2020
Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability Schools™ (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Models
Dietrich, Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While numerous recent authors have studied the effects of school accountability systems on student test performance, there has been very little research with regards to school mobility with school performance grades in an A-F system. For the purpose of this study, mobility is defined as a school's ability to have an increase or decrease in their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grading, Models, Weighted Scores
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Ismara, K. Ima; Khurniawan, Arie W.; Soeharto; Andayani, Sri; Supriadi, Didi; Prianto, Eko – International Education Studies, 2020
The study aims to analyze the implementation of Good School Governance in vocational schools in Indonesia as a response of the high number of inappropriate employment to the vocational graduates' competencies. This present quantitative descriptive study applies the purposive sampling technique by picking up 852 vocational school principals and…
Descriptors: Governance, Principals, Educational Improvement, Models
Kulesa, Amy Chen; LiBetti, Ashley; Squire, Juliet; Trinidad, Justin; Goldberg, Rebecca Gifford – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
The goal of this toolkit is to shed light on the importance of authorizing nontraditional charter schools and how the challenges of authorizing nontraditional schools manifest in practice, as well as to provide action steps for authorizers and school leaders who are able and eager to lead the field on these complex issues. The toolkit contains the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Models
Kulesa, Amy Chen; LiBetti, Ashley; Squire, Juliet; Trinidad, Justin; Goldberg, Rebecca Gifford – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
This toolkit informs school leaders about the authorizing challenges they may confront, illustrates opportunities and options for school leaders to navigate the authorizing process, and shares useful frameworks for considering the benefits and trade-offs of these options. The toolkit contains the following sections: (1) Strategies &…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Models
Squire, Juliet; LiBetti, Ashley; Goldberg, Rebecca Gifford – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
Last fall, researchers at Bellwether Education Partners began research on how standard authorizing practices could discourage or disadvantage charter schools with nontraditional models, such as dual language immersion, Montessori, and competency-based education models. Throughout the course of their research, the authors spoke to dozens of school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Models
Horn, Michael B. – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
As full-time virtual learning moved from the fringe to the mainstream in mid-March 2020, onlookers expressed concerns about access for learners and accountability for the learning itself. Concerns have not applied only to full-time virtual schools, however. Alternative schools that serve students who have dropped out or transferred from…
Descriptors: Accountability, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education
Schulte, Ann C.; Stevens, Joseph J.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Yel, Nedim; Tindal, Gerald; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2018
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
Nese, Joseph F. T.; Stevens, Joseph J.; Schulte, Ann C.; Tindal, Gerald; Yel, Nedim; Anderson, Daniel; Matta, Tyler; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2018
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; Thomas, Sally M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In many countries, policy makers struggle with the development of value-added indicators of school performance for educational accountability purposes and in particular with the choice whether school context measured in the form of student composition variables should be included. This study investigates differences between 7 empirical studies…
Descriptors: School Demography, School Effectiveness, Educational Research, Comparative Analysis
Elgart, Mark A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Organizational leaders from nearly every sector have been using continuous improvement models and improvement science for years to improve products, services, and processes. Though continuous improvement processes are not new in education, they are relatively new in the state policy arena. In a continuous improvement system, educators use data,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Educational Improvement, Models
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Finch, W. Holmes; Cassady, Jerrell C. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2014
In the USA, trends in educational accountability have driven several models attempting to provide quality data for decision making at the national, state, and local levels, regarding the success of schools in meeting standards for competence. Statistical methods to generate data for such decisions have generally included (a) status models that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Demography, Predictor Variables
Stevens, Joseph J.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Schulte, Ann C.; Tindal, Gerald; Yel, Nedim; Anderson, Daniel; Matta, Tyler; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2017
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
Schulte, Ann C.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Stevens, Joseph J.; Yel, Nedim; Tindal, Gerald; Anderson, Daniel; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2017
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
Krowka, Sarah; Hadd, Alexandria; Marx, Robert – Campbell Collaboration, 2017
In response to the school accountability movement and the move toward market-oriented education policies in recent decades, many schools and districts have felt increased pressure to find effective ways to boost student achievement. However, many districts--largely those serving low income black and hispanic students in urban settings--have still…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Improvement, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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