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Improving the Comparability and Local Usefulness of International Assessments: A Look Back and a Way Forward
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Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Over time international large-scale assessments have grown in terms of number of studies, cycles, and participating countries, many of which are a heterogeneous mix of economies, languages, cultures, and geography. This heterogeneity has meaningful consequences for comparably measuring both achievement and non-achievement constructs, such as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
ASU Preparatory Academy i3 Final Evaluation Report
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Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
Changing Practice, Changing Minds, from Arithmetical to Algebraic Thinking: An Application of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM)
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Tunks, Jeanne; Weller, Kirk – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
This study examines the process of change among grade 4 teachers (students aged 9-10 years) who participated in a yearlong Teacher Quality Grant innovation program. The concerns-based adoption model (CBAM), which informed the design and implementation of the program, was used to examine the process of change. Two questions guided the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Innovation, Grade 4, Adoption (Ideas)
The Sisters in Science Program: Barriers Broken and Lessons Learned.
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Hammrich, Penny L.; Livingston, Beverly; Richardson, Greer – 2002
The Sisters in Science Program (SIS), a 2 year intervention, was designed to impact the lives of 4th and 5th grade girls in a variety of ways. The overall goal of the program was to increase girls' attitudes, perceptions, and achievement in science and mathematics. Considered a multi-leveled intervention, SIS sought to create female-friendly…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Family Involvement, Females, Grade 4
At Risk Student Empowerment and the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Brazilian Public Schools.
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Leonardos, Ana Cristina – 1992
This study assessed the impact on student learning outcomes of the Integrated Center of Public Education (ICPE), an innovative program in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) for at-risk students; and compared school educational programs of the ICPE and a regular public school serving the same low-income community and focusing on critical thinking competence…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
The Impact of a Calculator-Based Mathematics-Teaching In-Service Program for Elementary School Teachers.
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Struyk, Lydia Ruth; And Others – 1993
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics encourages the use of calculators in the classroom as a teaching and learning tool, as well as a computational tool. This paper evaluates the impact on teachers' approaches to teaching mathematics and students' attitudes toward mathematics as the result of participation in an in-service program…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Calculators, Elementary Education