Data reflects a series of decisions made by people--and those decisions affect the story that data tells, what it captures, and how it can and should be used to inform decision-making. Because of this, mistrust in data is often the result of incomplete information and a lack of context. This resource breaks down what it means to build trust in…

Many educators have heard about the need to implement "trauma-sensitive" practices in order to help students heal and succeed. But what does this look like on a day-to-day basis? What does it require of teachers and of those who lead them? In "Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership," Bill Ziegler, Dave Ramage, Andrea Parson, and…

Schools should be spaces where students feel safe and welcome, actively engage with learning, and strive for success. Discipline policies and practices should reinforce these values, particularly safety and belonging. Unfortunately, ineffective discipline practices that punish students harshly and take them away from the classroom -- like…

This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of youth or, even worse, presents inaccuracies due to faulty techniques. Researching how youth…

This resource provides states with an overview on how to gather representative parent involvement data for State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) Indicator B8. The resource defines key concepts such as representativeness, sampling, nonresponse bias, response rates, and weighting. It also offers information on how to improve the…

When the first edition of "The Handbook of Research Synthesis" was published in 1994, it quickly became the definitive reference for researchers conducting meta-analyses of existing research in both the social and biological sciences. In this fully revised second edition, editors Harris Cooper, Larry Hedges, and Jeff Valentine present…

This guidebook discusses ways to eliminate various types of discrimination from business communications. Separately authored chapters discuss eliminating racial and ethnic bias; eliminating sexual bias; achieving communication sensitive about handicaps of disabled persons; eliminating bias from visual media; eliminating bias from meetings,…

Three types of test bias are discussed: content bias, atmosphere bias, and use bias. While much concern has been expressed about the content of tests or the atmosphere in which they are given, it is more important to focus on how tests are used in making decisions about people. Four models of test use are defined: regression model, constant ratio…

This handbook is intended to assist educational personnel in promoting awareness of bias and to encourage teachers to deal constructively with bias in the classroom. It attempts to provide a rationale for evaluating materials in this area. Both the State guidelines and the State regulations prohibiting sex discrimination are discussed. Guidelines…

The Interstate Association of Commissions on the Status of Women has prepared this revised "Handbook for Commissions on the Status of Women" as a service to the growing number of Commissions across the country. Because both government and citizen groups are increasingly aware of the problems women face and are addressing them with new…

This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is designed for guidance personnel who work in counseling and guidance with adults in community colleges, mental health settings,…

This teaching unit contains materials on sex role stereotyping which can be used as the basis for inservice training with those involved in the human services. The ultimate goal of the unit is to help women and men to begin to accept each other as equal human beings, recognizing the contribution which each can make to the community. Teaching…

This module is directed at personnel working or planning to work in the areas of guidance, counseling, placement and follow-through in junior and senior high school settings, grades 7-12. The module topic is career guidance for young women of junior and sinior high school age, and the focus will be on providing nonbiased career guidance which…

These evaluation activities are posttests on ethnicity, transnational linkages, and ethnocentric attitudes. The tests can be used to measure the content and skills that secondary students have acquired as a result of participating in the four units comprising the Ethnic Heritage Studies Curriculum. With a few minor modifications, the tests can…

The goal of Vegetable Soup, a television series for children, is to help counter the negative, destructive effects of racial prejudice and racial isolation and to reinforce and dramatize the positive, life enhancing value of human diversity in entertaining and affective presentations that children can understand and relate to. This teaching guide…