An evaluation of the effectiveness of charter schools is offered in this report. The report attempts to answer three critical questions: (1) "How are charter schools assessing student achievement?"; (2) "What are charter schools doing to meet accountability requirements?"; and (3) "Are charter schools improving student achievement?" To answer…

A previously high-ranking suburban school district with declining student achievement changed to site-based budgeting. The account of the change may also be a cautionary tale about change taken too rapidly. Although a poor economy, the annexation of two Department of Defense schools, and organizational stagnation helped to create lower student…

This report provides the results of a standardized survey of student opinions and satisfaction at Rogue Community College (RCC) (Oregon). In the spring of 2000, the Student Opinion Survey was conducted among students at both the Redwood Campus (RWC) in Grants Pass and the Riverside Campus (RVC) in Medford. Results include: (1) students at both…

This book focuses on educational language as a professional behavior that significantly affects student outcomes. "Educational language" is defined as the way in which educators discuss, describe, categorize, and verbally expect behaviors and achievements from students. The text, which is divided into eight chapters, claims that language…

This graduate follow-up survey is conducted annually to gather data regarding the activities and perceptions of students approximately six months after their graduation from Wisconsin's Technical Colleges. The primary objectives of the survey are to determine the extent to which graduates' current activities are related to the graduates'…

This book examines educational programs that have used multiple intelligences (MI) theory for 5 or more years, and addresses such questions as: "How have MI programs affected student achievement?" and "Where and how were those results achieved?" Six schools (two elementary, two middle-level, and two high schools), which serve a variety of student…

This report outlines institutional effectiveness measures at Austin Community College (Texas). Areas of assessment include transfer outcomes, workforce education, developmental education, retention, student services, and adult education. This report shows the purpose of each area of assessment, followed by the intended outcome, assessment…

This document is a compilation of reports that outline various institutional effectiveness measures and present assessment results and data at Austin Community College (ACC) (Texas). The College Effectiveness Update reports include Academic Programs Transfer Effectiveness Measures, Workforce Education Effectiveness Measures, Developmental…

The report describes the Instructional Program Review Process at Austin Community College (Texas). The report includes program review process timeline and schedule. The Instructional Program Review Process focuses on issues of need, cost, and effectiveness of instructional programs. It provides for identification of improvements, includes…

This document is the 2000 Institutional Effectiveness report from Piedmont Technical College (South Carolina). The areas that the report addresses are: academic advising, achievement of transfer students, and student development. Findings conclude that advisors need to consider work schedules and job demands when advising students, that Piedmont…

In response to the need for a more rich description of school professionals perceptions of the Instructional Consultation Team (IC-Team) model, interviews and surveys were conducted in one urban school to explore staff members experiences with and perceived impacts of the IC-Team in their school. Several major themes were derived from the analysis…

This book reports on the School Development Program (SDP) designed by James Comer. Known also as the Comer program, this reform effort assists underachieving urban schools by analyzing the school as a system to better understand the complex interactions occurring within this system. Favoring a variety of pedagogical approaches, the SDP focuses on…

This publication was created to broaden teachers', parents', administrators', and community leaders' visions of a school's potential. Teachers, librarians, state school board members, and other school professionals share their ideas and examples of successful implementations of various ideas beyond the confines of the traditional school. It…

Discussions over the last 2 decades about the possible reform of low socioeconomic schools and teaching practices originate in the effectiveness and improvement (E&I) fields of educational research, which proclaim that teachers and schools "can make a difference." But the message has been thoroughly overplayed. This work focuses on…

This paper discusses fostering a sense of unity across multiple campuses of a community college. It defines multi-campus community colleges (M3C) as a community college district composed of more than one site where learning is to take place. Unity is considered the state at which the students, faculty, and staff on the various college campuses and…