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Shaker, Paul – National Education Policy Center, 2010
"Great Teachers and Great Leaders" (GTGL) is one of six research summaries issued by the U.S. Department of Education in support of its Blueprint for Reform. This review examines the presentation of research about improving teacher and administrator quality in GTGL. The review concludes that there are serious flaws in the research summary. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Change, Meta Analysis, Research Methodology
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Kratochwill, Thomas R. – American Psychologist, 2007
The evidence-based practice (EBP) movement has the potential to significantly advance the quality of psychological and educational services provided by psychologists working in schools. Training psychologists in EBP has challenged the profession and caused faculty in graduate programs to reevaluate and retool professional training curricula and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Psychologists, Professional Training, Educational Change
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Confrey, Jere; King, Karen D.; Strutchens, Marilyn E.; Sutton, John T.; Battista, Michael T.; Boerst, Timothy A.; Smith, Margaret Schwan; Reed, Judith – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2008
Research on curricular choices has attracted widespread attention and merits increased investment by the research community. Multiple studies, publications, conferences, and a multicampus center (The Show-Me Project, n.d.) speak to the need to discuss what is taught in the classrooms and to whom, how, and when. Since the 1990s, with the creation…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Qualifications, Federal Legislation, Educational Change
Dossey, John A., Ed.; Swafford, Jane O., Ed.; Parmantie, Marilyn, Ed.; Dossey, Anne E., Ed. – 1997
The conference proceedings volume for PME-NA-XIX contains a total of 72 reports: 34 research reports; 20 short oral reports; 11 poster session reports; and 7 discussion group reports. Only the research reports are full reports; the others are generally one-page abstracts. The full reports include: (1) "Equity, Teaching Practices, and Reform:…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education