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Jackson, Kathleen Ryan; Ward, Caryn; Smolkowski, Keith; Gau, Jeff – State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center, 2021
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the districts that received ongoing training and coaching to use the Active Implementation Frameworks improved mathematics outcomes. The Active Implementation Frameworks represent five essential approaches for effective implementation of any evidence-based program or practice. One of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Outcomes of Education, School Districts, Educational Improvement
Burns, Ann H.; Hodge, Connie; Dantic, James; Petrilli, Peggy – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The study examines the extent to which education program completers effectively apply the professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions that the education program was designed to achieve. Prior to this study, the EPP has only analyzed completer survey data to determine the extent to which education program completers believe their preparation…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Surveys, College Graduates
Ma, Xin; Ma, Lingling – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2009
When multiple education projects operate in an overlapping or rear-ended manner, it is always a challenge to separate unique project effects on schooling outcomes. Our analysis represents a first attempt to address this challenge. A three-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) was presented as a general analytical framework to separate program…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Statistical Analysis, Models, Mathematics Education
Harmon, Hobart L.; Smith, Keith C. – Edvantia (NJ1), 2012
This monograph offers an in-depth look at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Rural Systemic Initiative (RSI) efforts, an investment of more than $140 million to reform mathematics and science programs in rural K-12 public education and tribal education. The authors seek to promote a foundation of contextual understanding for improving public…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Kirlin, Mary; Shulock, Nancy – Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, 2012
The challenge of producing the systemic changes that are needed to boost educational attainment and economic competitiveness across the country falls heavily on entities that coordinate public postsecondary institutions. Coordination of postsecondary education, whether of a single system of institutions or across an entire state, requires…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Technical Institutes, Governance, Program Effectiveness
Orr, Margaret Terry; King, Cheryl; LaPointe, Michelle – Education Development Center, Inc., 2010
Developing school leaders who are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to effectively lead low-performing schools has become a critical goal for local school districts intent on dramatically improving student outcomes. Given the current criticism surrounding leadership preparation programs and the changing nature of school…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Urban Schools, Program Effectiveness, School Districts
Young, John W.; Cline, Fred – Educational Testing Service, 2009
"High Schools That Work" (HSTW) is a school improvement initiative that was inaugurated by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in 1987. The main purpose of this concurrent validity study is to evaluate one or more measures by investigating their relationship to other commonly used and established measures given at or about the…
Descriptors: Validity, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, High Schools
Harmon, Hobart L.; Smith, Keith – Edvantia (NJ1), 2009
As a follow-up to a 2007 Edvantia, Inc. report entitled "A Legacy of Leadership and Lessons Learned: Results of the Rural Systemic Initiatives for Improving Mathematics and Science Education," (ED531892) Edvantia, Inc. sought and received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to hold a forum in the nation's capital that…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Munoz, Marco A. – Planning and Changing, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of Ramp Up to Advanced Literacy, an unbundled Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) model, on the reading achievement of ninth grade students in a large urban school district in Kentucky. Using a pre- and posttest impact evaluation design, data from participating and non-participating…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Grade 9
Leedy, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The General Equivalency Diploma (GED) is a credential created to help individuals that did not or could not complete a high school education and receive a high school diploma. Individuals can obtain their GED by returning to school with enrollment in Adult Education Programs and GED classes; however, many individuals without a high school diploma…
Descriptors: Barriers, Success, High School Equivalency Programs, Statistical Analysis
Harmon, Hobart L.; Smith, Keith – Edvantia (NJ1), 2007
This report pays tribute to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Rural Systemic Initiatives (RSIs), an investment of more than $140 million to improve mathematics and science education in some of rural America's most impoverished communities. The report illustrates the impact of NSF's RSI program on a national scale. Each RSI planned a project…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Science Education, Mathematics Education
Tewksbury, Richard; Lees, Matthew B. – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
Sex offender registries (SORs) are a societal response to serious and presumably dangerous criminal offenders. Existing research on registries has focused on demographic overviews of registrants, assessments of registrants' recidivism, accuracy and completeness of listed information, and collateral consequences for registrants. The present…
Descriptors: Criminals, Attitudes, Sexual Abuse, Punishment
Omvig, Clayton P. – 1979
The evaluation of the Bowling Green, Kentucky, K-12 Career Education Incremental Improvement Project consisted of five components: professional staff survey (PSS), student career maturity, career education program assessment, record of student career development, and academic achievement. PSS findings indicated that the seventy principals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Career Choice
Leung, Esther K.; Carr, Gloria T. – 1984
A questionnaire solicited information from Kentucky-trained teachers serving in Kentucky on how relevant their teacher training was to their present situation. A 13-item questionnaire received responses from 77 teachers. Questions focused on: (1) the most beneficial and most inadequate aspects of Kentucky's teacher education programs; (2) the most…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Rous, Beth; McCormick, Katherine; Gooden, Caroline; Townley, Kim F. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2007
Kentucky has developed an assessment and accountability system that provides outcome data for a set of state early childhood standards for children birth to 5 years of age that are aligned with early childhood outcomes designated by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Within this flexible and comprehensive state assessment system,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Data Analysis
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