An assessment of the Homework Emphasis Program (HEP) at a senior high school located in a mid-sized city is presented. This program is intended to increase student learning and decrease the number of failing grades by encouraging students to complete all assigned homework. HEP involves warnings to students who have not completed homework…

Research has shown that parents can make significant contributions to the education of their severely emotionally disturbed children if given appropriate guidance by education professionals. To actively engage parents in educational processes, educators need to be skilled in effective communication strategies. Working with parents on one focused…

Reliability methodology needs to evolve as validity has done into an argument supported by theory and empirical evidence. Nowhere is the inadequacy of current methods more visible than in classroom assessment. Reliability arguments would also permit additional methodologies for evidencing reliability in classrooms. It would liberalize methodology…