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Download full textZavitkovsky, Paul – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2022
After the passage of "No Child Left Behind," and especially after Obama-era Race to the Top initiatives, rising accountability for improved achievement and widespread dissatisfaction with the instructional value of statewide test reports led many school districts to purchase computer-adaptive "interim" testing systems. A common…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Outsourcing, Outcomes of Education, Equal Education
Direct linkHoerr, Thomas R. – Educational Leadership, 2016
How important is it that every student in a school is excited about learning? Should a student be allowed to use all his/her strengths in learning? Do you know someone who wasn't a particularly good student but has been very successful in life? What these seemingly unrelated questions have in common is an appreciation for the range of talents that…
Descriptors: Caring, Multiple Intelligences, Teaching Methods, Educational Legislation
Edmund W. Gordon; Michael V. McGill; Deanna Iceman Sands; Kelley M. Kalinich; James W. Pellegrino; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present alternative views on the theory and practice of "formative assessment" (FA), or assessment to support teaching and learning in classrooms, with the purpose of highlighting its value in education and informing discussions on educational assessment policy. Methodology/approach: The method…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, School Districts, Educational Policy
Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 2000
Studies by Tufts University's Center on Hunger and Poverty show conclusive links between nutrition and children's cognitive development. Cognitive defects can result from complex interactions between malnutrition and "environmental insults" that come from living in poverty. Poor nutrition has longterm consequences. Print and web…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin – 1975
In the last decade, the Office of Education has granted several billions of dollars to local educational agencies (LEAs) in an attempt to stimulate, and sometimes force, educational improvements. This paper was presented at a symposium considering experiences accumulated in a recent national study of federal change programs as they have (or have…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. Office of Research. – 1992
Intended to encourage promising and fresh ideas in education research, the Field Initiated Studies (FIS) Program in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) supports a varied array of research projects that are proposed and justified by the applicants. Of the 29 projects described here, 12 were funded in 1990 and 17 in 1991. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1960
This bulletin is the third in a series of annual publications issued by the Cooperative Research Program of the Office of Education. Its purpose is to provide practitioners, researchers, and others interested in education with information concerning research projects that are being supported under the Cooperative Research Program. A brief…
Descriptors: Educational History, Research Projects, Educational Research, Federal Programs
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin, the sixth in a series, includes brief descriptions of research projects initiated under the Cooperative Research Program during fiscal year 1962, in 6 key areas: (1) Curriculum and instruction; (2) Characteristics of learners; (3) Special education; (4) counseling and guidance; (5) Sociology of education; and (6) Administration and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Research Projects, Educational Sociology, School Counseling
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
This bulletin, the fourth in an annual series, presents a brief description of research projects that have been initiated with support from the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education. Most of the projects were contracted in fiscal year 1960. However, descriptions of projects which were recommended for support in May 1960 but…
Descriptors: Educational History, Learning Processes, Instructional Effectiveness, School Administration
