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Direct linkQuinn, David M.; Kim, James S. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
Theory and empirical work suggest that teachers' social capital influences school improvement efforts. Social ties are prerequisite for social capital, yet little causal evidence exists on how malleable factors, such as instructional management approaches, affect teachers' ties. In this cluster-randomized trial, we apply a decision-making…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Decision Making, Summer Programs, Reading Programs
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George H.; Groen, Jeffrey A.; So, Eric; Price, Joseph – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative (GEI) provided funding to 54 departments in the humanities and related social sciences during the 1990s to improve their PhD programs. This article estimates the aspects of PhD programs the GEI influenced and how these aspects influenced attrition and graduation probabilities. It uses…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, College Students, Graduation Rate
Glazer, Joshua L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
This article discusses a dilemma that confronts reformers who seek to improve the education system yet operate from a position outside that system. On one hand, "external" reformers have found that the implementation of school-level programs is attenuated by a lack of coherence and support in schools' environment. Districts and states…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Problems, Change Strategies
Henry, Gary T.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Thompson, Charles L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
Evaluating the impacts of public school funding on student achievement has been an important objective for informing education policymaking but fraught with data and methodological limitations. Findings from prior research have been mixed at best, leaving policymakers with little advice about the benefits of allocating public resources to schools…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Regression (Statistics)
Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Garnier, Helen E.; Resnick, Lauren B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
This study investigates the influence of a school's pre-existing social resources on the implementation of a comprehensive literacy-coaching program (Content-Focused Coaching [CFC]). Elementary schools were randomly assigned to receive a CFC-trained coach (n = 15 schools) or to continue with the literacy coaching resources that are standard for…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Teacher Collaboration, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods
Correnti, Richard – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
The author examined the effects of professional development (PD) on literacy instruction using 75,689 lessons from 1,945 classrooms in 112 schools participating in the Study of Instructional Improvement. Stratifying over 94 pretreatment covariates, including prior instruction, the results revealed the importance of PD as a lever for changing…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Literacy, Professional Development, Portfolios (Background Materials)
