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Jennifer R. Morrison; Eugene Borokhovski; Robert M. Bernard; Robert E. Slavin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Research and theory indicate that the type and quality of instruction, not the delivery mechanism, are what impact learning. Previous reviews have not systematically explored variations in the instructional strategies, approaches, and designs of educational technology programs and also suffered from lax inclusion criteria, which has been known to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Educational Technology, Research Methodology
Weiling Li; Aaron Butler; Catherine Oberle; Anabil Munshi; Amy J. Dray – Online Submission, 2023
Edmentum offers a personalized learning platform called Exact Path. This quasi-experimental study, designed to meet ESSA Tier 2 evidence and What Works Clearinghouse standards with reservations, aimed to assess the efficacy of Exact Path in a district from the Midwestern United States. The goal was to provide specific recommendations to educators…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
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Kim, Jihyun; Sun, Min – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
Under the "Every Student Succeeds Act," states and local school districts have more flexibility to design and implement teacher evaluation systems; however, very few studies have empirically examined the issue of localization of teacher evaluation policies. This study draws on longitudinal, mixed-methods evidence from school districts in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, School Districts, State Policy, Reading Achievement
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Burns, Jason; Harbatkin, Erica; Strunk, Katharine O.; Torres, Chris; Mcilwain, Aliyah; Frost Waldron, Sandy – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2023
The recent Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires states to identify and turn around their lowest performing schools, but it breaks somewhat from prior policies by granting states significant autonomy over how they identify and turn around these schools. This mixed-methods study, which draws on administrative, qualitative, and survey data,…
Descriptors: Models, Partnerships in Education, School Turnaround, School Districts
Maria V. Carbonari; Anna McDonald; Michael DeArmond; Andrew McEachin; Daniel Dewey; Emily Morton; Elise Dizon-Ross; Atsuko Muroga; Dan Goldhaber; Alejandra Salazar; Thomas J. Kane; Douglas O. Staiger – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated student achievement, with declines rivaling those after Hurricane Katrina. These losses widened achievement gaps between historically marginalized students and their peers. Three years later, achievement remains behind pre-pandemic levels for many students. This paper examines 2022-23 academic recovery efforts…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Grants, Emergency Programs
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Ayodele Abosede Ogegbo; Umesh Ramnarain; Joseph Krajcik – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Inquiry-Based Teaching Practice (IBTP) is an essential component of science education, and promoting its implementation is at the heart of various reform efforts. Even though science teachers regard IBTP as an essential pedagogical method, they rarely use it for various reasons. This study utilizes Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework to examine…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Inquiry
Jason F. Bletzinger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Now more than ever, school principals play a critical role in the effective implementation of inclusive education programs in their schools, as inclusive practices are becoming tightly embedded in a school's culture (Sailor, 2016; Shogren et al., 2015). The success of inclusive education programs has been primarily supported by school principals'…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Growth Models
Maina, Nyambura – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2020
The Multidisciplinary Education, Training, and Support (METS) program is designed to meet the linguistic and academic needs of recently arrived English Learners (ELs) who are identified as Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE). The METS program in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) includes students in elementary,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, English Language Learners, Immigrants, Public Schools
dela Cruz, William; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2021
The Texas Afterschool Centers on Education is the program administered through the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) grants. The Texas ACE Austin Cycle 9 program is composed of a compilation of activities at 10 AISD campuses that provide a comprehensive range of high quality and…
Descriptors: School Districts, After School Programs, 21st Century Skills, State Departments of Education
Wolf, Betsy; Cook, Michael A.; Eisinger, Jane; Ross, Steven – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2020
Pathblazer is a supplemental, online intervention program that helps struggling learners in grades K-8 achieve grade-level proficiency in mathematics and reading. It offers students individualized learning progression paths with fun, motivating content that addresses skill and concept gaps. Using existing student data or results from a screener,…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; von Davier, Matthias, Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
The chapters in this online volume comprise the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center's technical report of the methods and procedures used to develop, implement, and report the results of TIMSS 2019. There were various technical challenges because TIMSS 2019 was the initial phase of the transition to eTIMSS, with approximately half the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Susan M. Gates; Matthew D. Baird; Benjamin K. Master; Emilio R. Chavez-Herrerias – RAND Corporation, 2019
Research across the decades has confirmed that effective school leadership is associated with better outcomes for students and schools. A high-quality school leader affects dozens of teachers and hundreds or thousands of students. It is a pivotal role. From 2011 to 2016, The Wallace Foundation, through its Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI),…
Descriptors: Principals, Career Development, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Kim, Youngran – Education Economics, 2017
This paper examines the causal effects of autonomy over teacher hiring on student math and science achievement using the random student assignment policy implemented in Korea. Under this policy, students were randomly assigned to different schools within their school districts which equalized the compositions of student bodies across schools.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries
Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
Dee, Thomas; Dizon-Ross, Elise – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
States that received federal waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were required to implement reforms in designated "Focus Schools" that contribute to achievement gaps. In this study, we examine the performance effects of such "differentiated accountability" reforms in the state of Louisiana. The Focus School reforms…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Achievement Gap
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