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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)
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Camburn, Eric; Rowan, Brian; Taylor, James E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003
This is a study of distributed leadership in the context of elementary schools' adoption of comprehensive school reforms (CSR). Most CSRs are designed to configure school leadership by defining formal roles, and we hypothesized that such programs activate those roles by defining expectations for and socializing (e.g., through professional…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Elementary Schools, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change