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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
The 2013 study, "Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT" examined the effects of "IMPACT," a teacher evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, on teacher retention and performance. "IMPACT" assigns each teacher a single performance score based on classroom…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Public Schools, Teacher Persistence
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The study reviewed in this document examined the effects of a comprehensive teacher induction program for beginning teachers (i.e., teachers new to the profession) on teacher and student outcomes in 17 school districts across 13 states. The program includes mentoring, monthly professional development sessions, study groups with other beginning…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Beginning Teacher Induction, Outcome Measures
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The study reviewed in this paper examined the impact of "Collaborative Strategic Reading" ("CSR"), a set of instructional strategies used to build reading proficiency, on the reading comprehension of fifth-grade students. The analysis included 1,355 students from 74 social studies classrooms within 26 linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students