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Research that Resonates: Influencing Stakeholders
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Kachel, Debra E. – School Library Monthly, 2013
In 2012, Keith Curry Lance and his associates completed a second school library impact study in Pennsylvania. The research conducted in Pennsylvania was the result of an Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership grant that examined students' reading and writing scores with sub-groups of students (Hispanic, Black,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Outcome Measures, Stakeholders, Advocacy
Mapping Practitioner Perceptions of "It's Research Based": Scientific Discourse, Speech Acts and the Use and Abuse of Research
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Nicholson-Goodman, Jovictoria; Garman, Noreen B. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2007
Our goal is to deconstruct the text formed by practitioners' narratives about the use of the claim "It's research based" to understand both how this claim is used and received by practitioners and how it may impact on teachers' attitudes. We map a range of differences in these narratives about what is "real" (research versus…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Educational Research, Research Utilization, Discourse Analysis
Value-Added Assessment in Practice: Lessons from the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System Pilot Project. Technical Report. TR-506-CC
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McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2007
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 places a strong emphasis on the use of student achievement test scores to measure school performance, and, throughout the United States, school and district education reform efforts are increasingly focusing on the use of student achievement data to make decisions about curriculum and instruction. To encourage…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Accountability