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Direct linkElaine Lin Wang; Julia H. Kaufman; Sabrina Lee; Brian Kim; V. Darleen Opfer – RAND Corporation, 2024
This report describes the authors' findings from a scoping literature review on the topic of instructional system coherence. The authors reviewed 77 pieces on coherence published from 1990 to 2023, including articles, reports, books, dissertations, and conference papers. The scope and definition of alignment and coherence have seemed to expand…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational Research, Educational Policy
Bush-Mecenas, Susan; Woo, Ashley; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Lee, Sabrina; Kim, Brian – RAND Corporation, 2023
Providing and using technical assistance for capacity building within educational agencies is a complex endeavor. The U.S. Department of Education funds technical assistance centers to support state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) in the capacity-building process. Established in 2018, the Center to Improve Social and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Social Emotional Learning, State Departments of Education
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan; Ridgeway, Greg – RAND Corporation, 2009
This document is the second quarterly progress report for the evaluation of Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) programs for the Los Angeles County Probation Department. The report covers the period from July 1, 2008, through September 30, 2008. The intent of the report is to provide Probation and the community-based organizations (CBOs)…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Quality Control, Program Effectiveness
Hardison, Chaitra M.; Vilamovska, Anna-Marie – RAND Corporation, 2009
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a measure of how much students' critical thinking improves after attending college or university. This report illustrates how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the CLA's unique characteristics. The authors examined evidence of reliability and…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Evaluation Methods, Research Reports, Critical Thinking
Lempert, Robert J., Ed.; Popper, Steven W., Ed.; Min, Endy Y., Ed.; Dewar, James A., Ed.; Light, Paul C.; Pritchett, Lant; Treverton, Gregory F. – RAND Corporation, 2009
In March 2009, the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition hosted a workshop called "Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals." The workshop gave policymakers and analysts an opportunity to explore new methods and tools that can help improve long-term decisionmaking. The…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Policy Analysis, Workshops, Climate
