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Northwest Evaluation Association, 2015
For more than a decade, Pewaukee School District Superintendent JoAnn Sternke has watched her district get better and better at its mission: opening the door to each student's future. The Wisconsin district began using Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) computer adaptive interim assessments from Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) in 2004…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, School Districts
McGuinn, Patrick – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2015
In a 2012 paper for the Center for American Progress, "The State of Evaluation Reform," Patrick McGuinn (Drew University) identified the opportunities and challenges facing education agencies in Race to the Top (RTTT) grant-winning states as they prepared for the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems. The 2012 study undertook…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Teacher Evaluation, Beginning Teachers, Program Implementation
Ure, Christine; Gray, Jan – Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (NJ1), 2012
The purpose of the Research and Mapping for MCEECDYA Project: Student Academic Engagement was to examine the characteristics of schools with a low Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) from all jurisdictions that were identified to be making a difference to student academic and to identify the key drivers and characteristics of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Baccellieri, Patrick H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This case study offers an in-depth look at how one school achieved change in its culture and in its approach to curriculum and instruction. The unit of analysis for this single case study is South Loop Elementary School (SLES) and the time period is from August 2002 to June of 2007, during which SLES students demonstrated sharply improved…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Achievement Tests
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Drake, Susan – Urban Review, 1992
Describes a case study focusing on the first year of a three-year change initiative in which holistic curriculum was implemented in a kindergarten through grade-eight school (Simcoe Street School) in Ontario (Canada). Documents the success of the implementation and its continued use as part of school philosophy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development
Williams, Richard C.; Bank, Adrianne – 1982
This guidebook shows how school district personnel from many areas--curriculum, instruction, supervision, staff development--can coordinate their activities to focus on instructional improvement. It reveals how data derived from tests, when properly used, can be useful in helping district personnel work with school and community people to assess…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Evaluation