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Professional Development for Teachers' Improvement and Students' Outcomes in Elementary Schools: Responses of Teachers, Coaches, and Administrative Staff
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Arjoon, Neelawattie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this research was to explore why some elementary ETS benefited from professional development in terms of increased students' outcomes, while other ETS did not produce the same gains. The aim of this research was to analyze the degree of satisfaction and effectiveness of professional development by interviewing coaches,…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Faculty Development, Achievement
Leadership of Response to Intervention Perceptions and Reflections
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Samples, Roger – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study seeks to describe how elementary principals in a large Washington school district perceived the district office administration's implementation of Response to Intervention over a four-year period. RTI is a widely used intervention system that requires schools to assess whether each of their students is learning, adapting instruction for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Action Research, Informal Assessment, Program Implementation
Formal and Informal Measures of Reading and Math Achievement as a Function of Early Childhood Program Participation among Kindergarten through Eighth Grade Students
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Haas, Lory E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Three main purposes provided the foundation for this study. The first purpose was to investigate academic achievement through analyses of data obtained through formal and informal assessments among kindergarten through eighth grade students who participated in a Head Start program, center-based care program, or home-based care prior to school…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Investigations, Informal Assessment