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Designing and Analyzing Studies that Randomize Schools to Estimate Intervention Effects on Student Academic Outcomes without Classroom-Level Information
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Zhu, Pei; Jacob, Robin; Bloom, Howard; Xu, Zeyu – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2012
This paper provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools--which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in schools)--to measure intervention effects on student academic outcomes when information on the middle level (classrooms) is missing. This situation arises…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Research Methodology, Multivariate Analysis
Process Evaluation of the Instant Word Notebook
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Roberts, Jeannie Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This program evaluation of The Instant Word Notebook was conducted by two educators who created an instructional tool to teach and assess the most frequently occurring words in written text, commonly known as Instant Words. In an effort to increase the reading scores of first and second grade students, teachers were instructed to teach Instant…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Feedback (Response), Educational Strategies, Control Groups
The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades.
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Mosteller, Frederick – Future of Children, 1995
Discusses research (Tennessee Study of Class Size) that determined the effects of smaller class size in the earliest grades on short- and long-term pupil performance. The 4-year study assessed the performance of over 6,500 students who attended K-3 classrooms having differing numbers of students and found evidence of short- and long-term benefits…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study: Phase II, 1973-74, Final Report: Volume II. Description of the Field Study and Sample.
Wheeler, Patricia – 1976
The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and pupil behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Instruments for the Study of Instructional Time. Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. Technical Note Series. Technical Note II-2.
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1975
Data collection procedures for the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study are described. The instructional time phase of this study investigated the amount of time the teacher spent teaching particular objectives in reading and mathematics, and its relationship to student achievement. Two types of data were gathered from the second and fifth grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Check Lists, Class Size, Classification
Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study: Phase II, 1973-74, Final Report: Volume I. The Effects of Teaching Performances on Pupil Learning.
McDonald, Frederick J.; Elias, Patricia J. – 1976
The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and pupil behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests