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Developing and Assessing Educator Beliefs about the Common Core
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Liou, Yi-Hwa; Moolenaar, Nienke M.; Daly, Alan J. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) potentially shifts the way US schools approach teaching and learning. Research suggests that it is important to understand how educators view the CCSS and how they believe the CCSS may impact their practice. We developed and tested an instrument to investigate educator beliefs about the implementation of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation
Urban School Challenges: Implementation and Sustainability of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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Rusk, Christina N. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Educators are under increasing pressure to improve the climate and safety in urban schools. Unfortunately, schools have addressed school safety concerns by increasing exclusionary measures such as suspensions and expulsions. Knowing that exclusionary measures can have detrimental effects, state legislatures have called for more proactive…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Positive Behavior Supports, Mixed Methods Research, Program Implementation
Tied to the Common Core: Exploring the Characteristics of Reform Advice Relationships of Educational Leaders
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Liou, Yi-Hwa – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Researchers and scholars have called for greater attention to collaboration among and between educational leaders in districtwide reform. This work underlines the important social aspect of such collaboration and further investigates the type of professional interaction among/between district and school leaders particularly around the…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Change, Social Networks, Instructional Leadership
Faculty and Administrator's Perceptions of the Utilization of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) Program Review and Planning Rubrics
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Grossman, David H. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
California community colleges have been inconsistent in their efforts to meet the program review and planning accreditation standards established by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). To assist colleges in their effort to meet the accreditation standards and to improve educational quality, the ACCJC developed the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Accreditation (Institutions), Organizational Effectiveness
Evaluation of the Expository Reading and Writing Course: Findings from the Investing in Innovation Development Grant
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Fong, Anthony B.; Finkelstein, Neal D.; Jaeger, Laura M.; Diaz, Rebeca; Broek, Marie E. – WestEd, 2015
The Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) was developed by California State University (CSU) faculty and high school educators to improve the academic literacy of high school seniors, thereby reducing the need for students to enroll in remedial English courses upon entering college. This report, produced by Innovation Studies at WestEd,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Course Evaluation, High School Seniors, Grade 12
The District-Wide Effectiveness of the Achieve3000 Program: A Quasi-Experimental Study
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Park, So Jung; Min, Sookweon – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Achieve3000, a differentiated online literacy curriculum, on students' scores on the California State Test (CST). In the 2011-12 school year, 1,957 students in Chula Vista began using Achieve3000's solutions in 3rd through 8th grade. Using a form of propensity score matching called Inverse…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Quasiexperimental Design, Elementary School Students