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Download full textVoight, Adam; Hanson, Thomas – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2017
A growing number of educators concur that, in order to improve student academic performance, schools need to focus not only on students' academic needs but also on their social, emotional, and material needs (Piscatelli & Lee, 2011). As a result, school climate--the social, emotional, and physical characteristics of a school community (Cohen,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
Hanson, Thomas; Voight, Adam – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2014
A growing number of states and school districts use school climate assessments in progress reporting systems and are interested in incorporating these assessments into accountability systems. This analysis of response data from middle school students and teachers on the California School Climate, Health, and Learning Survey examines the…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys, Measures (Individuals), Educational Environment
Voight, Adam; Austin, Gregory; Hanson, Thomas – California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2013
This report, written by WestEd's Adam Voight, Gregory Austin, and Thomas Hanson, describes a study that examines what makes successful schools different from other schools. Rather than define success in absolute terms, this study's definition is based on whether or not a school is performing better than predicted given the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Public Schools
Hanson, Thomas; Polik, Jeff; Cerna, Rebeca – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2017
An activity for eliciting student involvement in collaborative decision-making and problem-solving with adults--the student listening circle workshop--is examined for the first time through an experimental study of its effects on participating students. A student listening circle is a facilitated focus group in which students articulate to adults…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Problem Solving, Workshops, Listening Skills
Hanson, Thomas; Dietsch, Barbara; Zheng, Hong – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
Character education has become one of the fastest growing reform movements in K-12 education today, partially in response to unacceptable levels of student misbehavior and inadequate endorsement of good character values (Williams 2000). Between 1993 and 2009, 36 states passed laws mandating or recommending some aspect of character education in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Education
Voight, Adam; Austin, Gregory; Hanson, Thomas – California Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2013
This report, written by WestEd's Adam Voight, Gregory Austin, and Thomas Hanson, describes a study that examines what makes successful schools different from other schools. Rather than define success in absolute terms, this study's definition is based on whether or not a school is performing better than predicted given the characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Organizational Climate, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
Finkelstein, Neal; Hanson, Thomas; Huang, Chun-Wei; Hirschman, Becca; Huang, Min – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This study examines whether the Problem Based Economics curriculum developed by the Buck Institute for Education improves grade 12 students' content knowledge as measured by the Test of Economic Literacy, a test refined by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) over decades. Students' problem-solving skills in economics were also…
Descriptors: Test Items, Intervention, Economics Education, Problem Based Learning
