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Bos, Johannes M.; Dhillon, Sonica; Borman, Trisha – American Institutes for Research, 2019
This is the final report of a large-scale independent evaluation of the Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR) model in ninth grade in eleven high schools in Maine, California, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Texas. This sample of schools included large and small schools in urban, suburban, and rural areas, serving students from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, High School Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
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Hoxby, Caroline; Turner, Sarah – Education Next, 2013
For this study, the authors designed an experiment to test whether some high-achieving, low-income students would change their behavior if they knew more about colleges and, more importantly, whether a cost-effective way to help such students realize their full array of college opportunities can be implemented. This was done by randomly assigning…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Intervention, High Achievement, Low Income Groups
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014
This is the companion report to "Early Progress: Interim Research on Personalized Learning" which documents the teacher survey results for the 2013-14 school year. Researchers obtained and analyzed both qualitative and quantitative data from each school to create a broad picture of the schools' efforts to implement personalized learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Individualized Instruction, Charter Schools
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Rogers, Leslie A.; Parks, Robin J.; Weisenbach, Jessica L.; Mau, Ann C.; Merwin, Megan T.; Bergman, Wendy A. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2007
This article illustrates how to (a) use schoolwide data to monitor student responsiveness to primary and secondary prevention efforts to identify students for tertiary preventions and (b) design, implement, and evaluate a function-based intervention in collaboration with two general education teachers, who served as the primary interventionists.…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Prevention, Behavior Problems