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The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on the current state of several measurement issues pertaining to curriculum-based measures of reading (R-CBM1). We begin by providing an overview of the utility of R-CBM, followed by...
The low quality of educational services in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique &...
The authors report on major trends and emerging issues in state education policy-making. Two parts cover, first, the history, status, and future of educational governance and, second, the alternatives open to state leaders in structuring...
This mixed-methods outcomes study investigated the number of in-school and out-of-school suspension reports before and after the implementation of a preventative-based discipline method, classroom circles. The study was guided by five...
This bibliography contains citations about the cognitive information processing (CIP) approach to career development and career services developed at Florida State University. This application of cognitive information processing theory...
School counselors are the first personnel called on in a school to provide daily student mental health support. However, complications such as additional non-counseling duties and high student to counselor ratios exist which limit the...
This study examines how student learning conditions are impacted by the allocation of school resources, especially time and staff. It also explores the consequences of such allocation on student achievement. More specifically, it...
Healthcare professions are faced with a problem, a shortage of underrepresented minorities (URM) who resemble the racial, ethnic, and gender structure of the community that they will one day serve. Further impacting this problem is the...
This review of career course literature in 147 documents traces the history of career courses in colleges and universities and reviews 74 reports or articles of the effectiveness of the various career courses offered in institutions of...
The K-12 education system in the United States is rife with debate about what content should be taught and about how students’ achievement with that content should be measured. While much of the public discourse focuses on traditional...
The unemployment rate is very high in Kenya, with approximately 25% of the youth between the ages of 15 and 25 being currently unemployed (GOK, 2007). Some entrepreneurship education scholars believe that entrepreneurship education can...
Teacher retention is an area of importance for school leaders. Attrition rates are especially high in international schools (Hayden & Thompson, 2008). School leaders working in small West African international schools (500 students or...
"Alice Miel, Associate Professor of Education in Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and Editor of the Association for Childhood Education International says: 'Continuity has to do with relatedness. It may be relatedness...
"The study of recent trends in elementary school evaluation, reported in the following pages, was made because the writer felt the need for further knowledge of the endeavors being made in the field of elementary school evaluations"-...
This dissertation highlights the experience of personalization in schools in the context of high-stakes test-based education accountability policy. Historically, personalization has been understood to be essential to the teaching...
Scaffolding is a type of instructional support that helps students to complete a learning task that exceeds their current ability. Scaffolding plays an important role in augmenting other instructional approaches, such as problem-based...
In 2011, President Obama called upon the education system to prepare students to be competitive in today's global workforce in order to regain the United States' position as the international leader in business, politics, and education....
Socialization of U.S. Doctoral-Degree Students into Evaluation Professionals: The Use of Evaluator Competencies and Experiential Learning Strategies in Selected Programs
Recent conversations in the field of evaluation concern the number of graduate degree evaluation programs (LaVelle & Donaldson, 2010), a high job-market demand for trained evaluators (Stufflebeam, 2001), and a call to meet that demand...
Summary data and narrative profiles are provided on state postsecondary education structures (governing boards, coordinating boards and agencies). Following an overview of the status of state coordination and governance of higher...
The purpose of the current study was to test the theory of action hypothesized for the Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS) based on results from a large-scale randomized field trial. Using a multilevel structural equation...
In November 2002, Florida voters approved a class size reduction (CSR) amendment to the state constitution that required the State to lower class sizes to specified cap amounts in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade by the beginning...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be defined as group of complex disorders of brain development that includes difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors (Autism Speaks, n.d.). It...
Constructing School Organization Through Metaphor: Making Sense of School Reform is an in-depth case study of a K-12 laboratory school affiliated with a major state university. The school was undergoing a series of significant changes, ...
What parents, pupils and teachers think their school should emphasize in its instructional program: A report of a study conducted by the faculty of South Broward High School
"Perhaps few would question Olsen's premise that amiable public relations are essential to the successful building of bridges between school and community life. This study deals with a recent experiment in school-community bridge...
In 1971, ECS did a survey of the basic legal structures and responsibilities of state coordinating or governing agencies and public institutional governing boards. In response to requests from the states and from individuals, the survey...
This study applied the odds-ratio (Penfield, 2008), the multinomial logistic regression (Kato et al., 2009), and the standardised distractor analysis (Schmitt and Bleistein, 1987) methods in the examination of differential distractor...
This qualitative case study examined the professional development practices at 2 of the 9 schools involved in the Incentives for Highly Effective Administrators and Teachers (iHEAT) Program in Miami-Dade County Public Schools from 2013...
Career and technical education (CTE) has been a contested area with mixed study results and conflicting theories. Adding to the controversy is the fact that various types of CTE programs are implemented in diverse ways, which creates...
This bibliography contains citations from publications or papers presented at professional meetings concerning CIP theory, research, and practice based on work completed at Florida State University and other organizations in various...
This book begins with an explanation of the nature and characteristics of successful dissertation research. An approach to organizing the dissertation concept paper, the dissertation prospectus, the dissertation, and the dissertation...
The purpose of the study was to explore the process of conducting action research and to describe how two groups of teachers came to understand, account for and apply their own action research plans. The processes involved in conducting...
The main objective of this study was to investigate the improvement of the accuracy of small sample equating, which typically occurs in teacher certification/licensure examinations due to a low volume of test takers per test...
This study investigated the psychometrics of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation Screening (DELV-S) Assessment using confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, and differential item functioning (DIF). Responses from...
In democratizing states around the world, civic education programs have long formed a critical component of government and donor strategy to support the development of civil society and strengthen citizens' democratic competencies, ...
What is interesting is virtual learning seems to go against the very nature of teachers and teaching. For example, many teachers are in the profession to change the lives of students, to have an impact, for interaction, to motivate and...
Participation in study abroad has tripled in the last two decades, with over 332, 000 U.S. undergraduate students studying overseas for academic credit in the 2016/2017 school year (Institute of International Education, 2018). Programs...
This paper is part of a substantial amount of research work which was defined and solicited by the Governors Commission on the Structure and Governance of Education in Maryland (the Rosenberg Commission) from many scholarly people...
The sixth edition of the State Postsecondary Education Profiles Handbook presents information about postsecondary education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
This profiles handbook presents in narrative form a statement about the statewide postsecondary agencies that administer statewide programs, coordinate and plan for postsecondary education.
In Florida, persistently low-performing schools generally service high concentrations of minority and free and reduced-price lunch students. As minority demographics grow throughout Florida (Florida Office of Economic & Demographic...
This study investigates one school’s approach to increasing high school graduation rates through the use of a school-wide support model. The leadership team at the study site sought to identify and address the primary barriers to...
This new edition provides a basic reference document for those interested in the historical background, current status, and emerging patterns of state higher education structures. The document begins with an introductory essay and...
The purpose of this study was to determine if economically integrated preschool, denoted as universal preschool, has a significant effect on the test scores of second grade students in California. Previous studies have shown conclusive...
An Analysis of FEMA Curricular Outcomes in an Emergency Management and Homeland Security Certificate Program— a Case Study Exploring Instructional Practice
In the United States, the higher education community is charged with the academic education of emergency management professionals. The present rate of natural disasters as well as the evolving threat of terrorist attacks have created a...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a better understanding of the policy making process by developing a policy model and a Blended Framework to apply to the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program policy. Three...
This dissertation addresses the knowledge gap about the dosage feature of preschool programs and its relationship to kindergarten readiness by asking: Does the degree of center-based preschool attendance—more than 20 hours/week (full-day...
Student-athletes are a highly visible subgroup of students whose performance and visibility can influence the formation of an institution's image (Zimbalist, 1999). Research must continue to advance understanding of the variables that...
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