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Lockheed, Marlaine; Harris, Abigail; Jayasundera, Tamara – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
A school improvement program that provided support to poor-performing schools on the basis of needs identified in a school improvement plan was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica, from 1998 to 2005. In this independent evaluation of the program, we use propensity score matching to create, post hoc, a control group of schools that were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Supplementary Reading Materials, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Pennington, Rebecca E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was designed to determine whether teacher portfolios can be validly and reliably assessed, to investigate the effect of an instructional tool on increasing the level of reflective thinking in elementary preservice teachers' portfolios, and to find whether electronic portfolios designed and assessed in optimal conditions represent…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Control Groups, Preservice Teachers, Intervention