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Froman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2013
When comparing overall FCAT performance of the District to the State, the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District comes up a little short in Reading and barely higher in Math. However, when the comparisons to the State are confined within the typical subgroup categories, the District meets or exceeds the State's performance in all subgroups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Rank (Professional), Performance Based Assessment, Cohort Analysis
Chambers, Jay; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Wang, Antonia; O'Neil, Caitlin – RAND Corporation, 2014
The goal of the Intensive Partnership (IP) initiative is to improve student success by transforming how teachers are recruited, developed, assigned, rewarded, and retained. RAND and American Institutes for Research (AIR) have been studying the seven IP sites (including three districts and four charter management organizations--CMOs) since the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Time Management
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Nunnery, John; Kaplan, Leslie; Owings, William A.; Pribesh, S. – NASSP Bulletin, 2009
This study examined approximately 6,500 Florida students' reading and mathematics performance when taught by a sample of teachers who obtained their teaching credentials through the Troops to Teachers program. Results indicated that students served by Troops teachers performed about equally well in reading and achieved a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
Blazer, Christie; Froman, Terry; Romanik, Dale – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2006
Research Services calculates enrollment projections on an annual basis. These projections are presented each year at the district's Pupil Population Estimating Conference. For this year's projections, two years of trend data (2005-06 and 2006-07) were used to project student enrollment for 2007-08. Projections are provided by individual grade…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Enrollment Projections, Elementary Secondary Education, Students
Data Quality Campaign, 2010
Now that all 50 states and the District of Columbia are building statewide longitudinal data systems, the next step is to ensure that the information in these systems is used to improve student learning. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has identified 10 actions that states can take to ensure that the right data are available and accessible and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), High School Graduates, Graduation Rate