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Brown, Jacqueline A.; Watanabe, Yayoi; Lee, Dong Hun; McIntosh, Kent – School Psychology International, 2016
To engage in a comparison of school psychology research and practice in eastern and western countries, the current study sought to identify key themes that have influenced the field of school psychology in East Asian countries. Forty-six leading school psychology professionals in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan provided their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Psychology, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Practices
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Mah, Adeline Shi Hui; Yeo, Marie – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2016
Averil Coxhead is widely known for developing the Academic Word List, a list of 570 word families associated with great frequency in academic texts. This list has been particularly useful to teachers of English as a Second Language as well as independent learners in tertiary education. She has also developed a Science-based word list (Coxhead and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Word Lists, Word Frequency
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Sharp, Laurie A. – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2016
On December 10, 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA) was signed by President Barack Obama and became the United States' current national education law (United States Department of Education [U.S. DOE], n.d.). The ESSA was a long overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Unlike previous…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Program Descriptions, Educational Policy
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Cavendish, Wendy; Harry, Beth; Menda, Anne Maria; Espinosa, Anabel; Mahotiere, Margarette – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: The Response to Intervention (RTI) approach involves the use of a dynamic model built around the systematic documentation of students' response to research-based instructional interventions. Although there has been widespread implementation of RTI models for early intervention and in some cases, as a means to identify students with…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Grounded Theory, Urban Schools, Cultural Pluralism
Foegen, Anne; Stecker, Pamela M.; Genareo, Vincent R.; Lyons, Renée; Olson, Jeannette R.; Simpson, Amber; Romig, John Elwood; Jones, Rachel – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
Research supports special educators' use of progress-monitoring data for instructional decision-making purposes as an evidence-based practice for improving student achievement. This article describes the Professional Development for Algebra Progress Monitoring (PD-APM) system. PD-APM, is an online system that includes two "hubs" that…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
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Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Suhrheinrich, Jessica; Rieth, Sarah – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2016
Pivotal Response Training (PRT) is a naturalistic, behavioral intervention with a strong evidence-base that is designed to increase generalization and maintenance of responding in children with ASD. Although special education teachers report using PRT, little research to date has examined PRT use in the context of community school programs. There…
Descriptors: Intervention, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, School Community Programs
Grossman, Jill; Cawn, Brad – New Leaders, 2016
The DC Bilingual Public Charter School, located in the District of Columbia, is a dual language school which educates all students in English and Spanish. Since its inception, students have made significant progress in reading and mathematics achievement. Administrators attribute this to the school's laser-like focus on ensuring that all teachers…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Case Studies, Coaching (Performance), Expertise
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, 2016
The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) embarked on a yearlong effort to identify and examine ways to make financial aid research more relevant to financial aid practitioners. To inform their recommendations, they surveyed NASFAA members, reviewed the…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
Maryland State Department of Education, 2016
With this Strategic Plan, the Division of Special Education/ Early Intervention Services recommits to "Moving Maryland Forward"--introduced in 2013. With the shifting in the national, State, and local education landscape, Maryland has revisited the initial Plan to sharpen the steadfast focus to narrow the gaps for children with…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Early Intervention, Special Education, Educational Planning
Riski, Victoria J.; Vogt, Mary Ellen – Teachers College Press, 2016
Risko and Vogt provide a unique and progressive approach for engaging the professional learning of teachers of literacy, reading specialists, literacy coaches and instructional leaders, content specialists, and administrators. Their deliberate use of Professional Learning signals the importance of educators engaging in authentic and inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Faculty Development, Literacy Education, Reading Teachers
Candee, Allyson Joelle – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this paper, the Classroom Learning Activities Checklist (CLAC) is proposed as a classroom observation measure that effectively captures the classroom environments and strategies that support self-regulation via task-oriented learning in young students. The CLAC's dimensionality, reliability, and concurrent and predictive validity evidence are…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Learning Activities, Metacognition, Evidence Based Practice
Cardichon, Jessica; Bradley, Sean – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2016
States are responsible for setting the minimum number of students needed to form a student subgroup for federal reporting and accountability purposes. This required student subgroup size is commonly referred to as the state-set "n-size." States should set this number as low as possible to maximize the number of student subgroups created.…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability
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Wilkins, Julia; Ruddle, Karen; Paitsel, Sheila; Duffield, Kelly; Minch, Amy; Hesson, Craig; Baker, Sherry; Harper, Sara; Jennings, R. Lanai – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
In 2010, the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) partnered with the West Virginia Department of Education Office of Special Programs to provide intensive technical assistance to 12 school districts to help them design and implement evidence-based programs to increase the graduation rates of students with…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Disabilities, School Districts, Dropouts
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Dunbar, Robert L.; Dingel, Molly J.; Prat-Resina, Xavier – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
The disconnect between data collection and analysis across academic and administrative units within institutions of higher education makes it challenging to incorporate diverse data into curricular design. Understanding the factors related to student retention and success is unlikely to occur by focusing on only one unit at a time. By promoting…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Higher Education
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Brown, Chris; Rogers, Sue – London Review of Education, 2014
This paper examines our use of knowledge-creation activity as a way of developing evidence-informed practice among a learning community of 36 early years practitioners in one London borough. It also seeks to illustrate how we approached the idea of measuring evidence use and our engagement with, and adapted use of, two separate measurement scales:…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Program Effectiveness
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