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Value-Added Assessment in Practice
Value-added assessment (VAA) systems use statistical techniques to analyze test-score data; VAA data is intended to help educators make more informed decisions about curriculum and instruction. The authors examined the rollout of Pennsylvania's VAA program, and found that, in its pilot phase, the pr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Making Sense of Test-Based Accountability in Education
Test-based accountability systems that attach high stakes to standardized test results have raised a number of issues on educational assessment and accountability. Do these high-stakes tests measure student achievement accurately? How can policymakers and educators attach the right consequences to t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Addressing Challenges in Evaluating School Principal Improvement Efforts
Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time
In 2000, Edison Schools, the nation's largest education management organization, asked RAND to analyze its achievement outcomes and design implementation. RAND evaluated Edison's strategies for promoting student achievement in its schools, how it implemented those strategies, how its management affe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Improving Mathematics and Science Education
Presents the findings of a multiyear study of the effectiveness of reform-oriented science and mathematics teaching (instructional practices for engaging students actively in their own learning and enhancing the development of complex cognitive skills)-specifically, whether such practices are associ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind
Since 2001-2002, standards-based accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 have shaped the work of public school teachers and administrators in the United States. This book sheds light on how accountability policies have been translated into actions at the district, school, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Pain and Gain
The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph presents information regarding the implementation of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Improving School Leadership Through Support, Evaluation, and Incentives: The Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program
This report examines Pittsburgh Public Schools' implementation and outcomes of the Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program from school years 2007-2008 through 2010-2011, how principals and other school staff have responded to the reforms, and what outcomes accompanied program implementation.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Cultural Oasis: For Arab Children, Collected Works Offer Roads to Tolerance, Critical Thinking
Feature stories discuss the promotion of tolerance and critical thinking in the Arab world through children's media, the challenges faced by the United States in an era of fiscal austerity, and promising models for measuring teacher performance. Two other stories highlight the National Science Foun... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
New Assessments, Better Instruction?: Designing Assessment Systems to Promote Instructional Improvement
This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact that as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Improving Teaching Effectiveness: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013–2014
by Brian M. Stecher • Laura S. Hamilton • Abby Robyn • Elizabeth D. Steiner • Deborah Holtzman • Eleanor S. Fulbeck • Iliana Brodziak de los Reyes • Jay Chambers • Jeffrey Poirier • Michael S. GaretTo improve the U.S. education system through more-effective classroom teaching, in school year 2009–2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching. Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research evaluated implem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age (Popular Culture and World Politics)
The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in rea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations
Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, development and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of feminist methodologies, gender theory and feminist approaches to key ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Gluten-Free Recipes for People with Diabetes
Recent estimates suggest that nearly one out of every 20 people with type 1 diabetes has celiac disease, a condition that renders the body unable to process the gluten protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. People with celiac disease are unable to eat any foods that contain gluten, which is found ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work (Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics)
This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband – Vol. I (Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband #1)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected member of the court of Napoleon, and an inveterate gossip. An old family friend of the Bonaparte's from Co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband – Vol. II (Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband #2)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected member of the court of Napoleon, and an inveterate gossip. An old family friend of the Bonaparte's from Co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband – Vol. III (Memoirs Of The Emperor Napoleon – From Ajaccio To Waterloo, As Soldier, Emperor And Husband #3)
Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected member of the court of Napoleon, and an inveterate gossip. An old family friend of the Bonaparte's from Co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013