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Direct linkThompson, Edryce – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The goal of this quantitative study is to determine if there is a significant difference in the reading proficiency rates for students with disabilities in districts utilizing the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) as evident by the scores from the English Language Arts portion of the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP). This study…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, State Programs, Reading Achievement, Students with Disabilities
Peer reviewedDavid, Kevin M.; Sivadon, Angela D.; Wood, Donna G.; Stecher, Sarah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In 2007, Tulsa Community College (TCC) joined the national Achieving the Dream (ATD) network, which is dedicated to developing data-informed interventions to increase persistence and completion among community college students. TCC's participation in the national initiative set it down a path for positive institutional change, but it was the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Program Improvement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Download full textRedding, S. – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2013
Differentiating state services to support district and school improvement makes sense for two reasons: (1) support is most effective when targeted to the specific needs of the district or school, based on both performance data and diagnostic data about prevailing operational and professional practice; and (2) state resources of time and money are…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Program Improvement, Program Implementation
Howard Adelman; Linda Taylor – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2024
In this brief, we discuss embedding and framing the evolving literatures related to improvement and implementation sciences into a general intervention perspective. From that perspective, we sketch out some basic considerations related to improvement and implementation research, practice, and policy.
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Research and Development, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Kevin Barlow – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
The state of Texas requires that each district and campus write an annual improvement plan (Texas Education Code, n.d.b). Although this study was conducted in Texas concerning Texas districts and campuses, it would be reasonable to assume that most, if not all, of the other states in the U.S. have similar improvement planning processes. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Program Effectiveness
Owen Schochet; Patricia Del Grosso; Sally Atkins-Burnett; Juliet Bromer; Toni Porter; Ann Li; Natalie Reid – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
This technical report accompanies the "Listed Home-Based Child Care Providers and Child Care and Early Education Policies Series." This series of three research briefs presents findings from the first nationally representative analysis of the patterns and predictors of listed home-based child care (HBCC) providers' interactions with…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
Gonzalez Aleu, Fernando; Granda Gutierrez, Edgar Marco Aurelio; Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo; Garza Villegas, Juan Baldemar; Vazquez Hernandez, Jesus – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a continuous improvement project (CIP) at a Mexican university designed to increase engineering graduate student loyalty. Design/methodology/approach: A plan-do-check-act problem-solving methodology was implemented, and a SERVQUAL survey was conducted on 67 master's engineering students. Findings:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Engineering Education, Graduate Students
Stevenson, Isobel; Lemons, Richard W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
The relationship between research and practice in K-12 is complicated and fraught. Research publications are unlikely to become more "user-friendly," and teachers are unlikely to change their practice quickly or more willingly -- nor should they. Recognize that reality, Isobel Stevenson and Richard Lemons explain that schools need to…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
New Jersey Department of Education, 2025
Annually, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) collects, analyzes, and reports to the Governor and Legislature on disciplinary infractions and their consequences, as reported by school districts, to meet the requirements of the Public School Safety Law, N.J.S.A. 18A:17-46 through 48. This report includes statewide information on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Safety, Discipline, Bullying
Collaborative Inquiry and School Leadership Growth: An Australian Adaptation of an Albertan Approach
Boyd, William Edgar; Hayden, Martin – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article introduces an Australian adaptation of an approach to supporting school leadership and improvement pioneered by educationalists David Townsend and Pam Adams, from Alberta, Canada. Referred to as the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement, the adaptation involved school leaders, academics, and government officials who combined…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Instructional Leadership, Improvement Programs, School Effectiveness
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2020
Licensed family child care (FCC) programs serve millions of children and families annually and tend to serve more vulnerable families than center-based programs. Low-income families, families needing infant and toddler care, and families that are Hispanic or African American are more likely to place their children in FCC programs than in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Care, Educational Trends, Caregiver Training
Contann Dabney, Contributor; Terry Hofer, Contributor; Beth Jackson, Contributor; Smriti Jacob, Contributor; Jeannine Medvedich, Contributor; Andrew Morrill, Contributor; Shakinna Patterson, Contributor; Joe Sassone, Contributor; Giselle Sherry-Marsh, Contributor; Andrew Swanson, Contributor; Ashleigh Tillman, Contributor; Susan Villani, Contributor; Melinda Wallace, Contributor; Noel White, Contributor – WestEd, 2025
This guide was developed for district leaders and leadership teams to use as a supplement to the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework" and its related survey system. The Four Domains framework, from WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, was created to assist states, districts, and schools as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
Gallagher, H. Alix; Cottingham, Benjamin W. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
The education sector is embracing the hope that continuous improvement will lead to more beneficial student outcomes than standards-based reform and other approaches to policies and practice in prior decades. This report examines attempts in California to realize the potential of continuous improvement in some of the state's largest districts.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Urban Schools, Improvement Programs
Wile, David – Performance Improvement, 2012
This article is part of the dialogue on human performance technology (HPT) models that began in the October 2011 issue of "Performance Improvement." In 1996, the author shared a new HPT model with "Performance & Instruction" readers. Since then, he has refined the model and added empirical research. In the spirit of continuous improvement, the…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Human Factors Engineering, Improvement Programs, Program Improvement
Dessinger, Joan Conway; Moseley, James L.; Van Tiem, Darlene M. – Performance Improvement, 2012
This commentary is part of an ongoing dialogue that began in the October 2011 special issue of "Performance Improvement"--Exploring a Universal Performance Model for HPT: Notes From the Field. The performance improvement/HPT (human performance technology) model represents a unifying process that helps accomplish successful change, create…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Improvement Programs, Program Improvement, Models
