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Direct linkAndrew P. Jaciw; Rebecca Dowling; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Empirical Education Inc., 2025
This report contains the appendices for the report "'How Are the Children?' A Study of the Effectiveness of a Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum for High School Students: A Report of a Randomized Experiment Conducted in the Rock Island Milan School District." The report presents findings from a one-year teacher-level randomized control…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Peer reviewedAndrew P. Jaciw; Rebecca Dowling; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluates the first year of implementation of How Are the Children (HATC), a project-based social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed to enhance high school student's social-emotional (SE) development. Through documentary filmmaking and lessons based on SE competencies, HATC aims to provide SEL support that amplifies authentic…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Andrew P. Jaciw; Rebecca Dowling; Mayah Waltower; Li Lin; Jenna Zacamy – Empirical Education Inc., 2025
This report contains supplemental data to the report "'How Are the Children?' A Study of the Effectiveness of a Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum for High School Students: A Report of a Randomized Experiment Conducted in the Rock Island Milan School District." The report presents findings from a one-year teacher-level randomized…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning
Download full textFinkelstein, Neal; Hanson, Thomas; Huang, Chun-Wei; Hirschman, Becca; Huang, Min – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
Since 1995, the Buck Institute has partnered with university economists and expert teachers to create the Problem Based Economics curriculum. The curriculum was developed to respond to NCEE (National Council on Economic Education) standards, and it is supported by professional development for teachers. This study examines whether the Problem Based…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Problem Based Learning, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
Finkelstein, Neal; Hanson, Thomas; Huang, Chun-Wei; Hirschman, Becca; Huang, Min – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This study examines whether the Problem Based Economics curriculum developed by the Buck Institute for Education improves grade 12 students' content knowledge as measured by the Test of Economic Literacy, a test refined by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) over decades. Students' problem-solving skills in economics were also…
Descriptors: Test Items, Intervention, Economics Education, Problem Based Learning
Council of the Great City Schools, 2009
In response to a request by the Secondary Education Sub-Committee of its Achievement Task Force, the Council of the Great City Schools surveyed its membership in the fall of 2007 to gather information on a variety of high school reform issues. An electronic file of the survey was emailed to the curriculum directors in each member district in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Change, Data Analysis, Mathematics Teachers
