Download or read book Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement written by Patrick Chudi Okafor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While socioeconomic status does affects students success, both in academics and in future status in adult life, it does not have to be the only deciding factor. In his study, Alternate Route to School Effectiveness and Student Achievement, Dr. Patrick Chudi Okafor discusses the need to enhance school climate as an alternate to socioeconomic status in promoting students success. He also investigates the climate in New York City public schools as the means of schools survival, development, and growth, as it affects both school effectiveness and student academic achievement. He further considers schools, teachers, parents, communities, and governments with respect to their roles in students academic development and growth.These considerations, among others, led Dr. Okafor to offer solutions to the issue of failure associated with low socioeconomic status at a time when more children are falling within this bracket and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. A quality learning environment presents a strong stimulus for societal change, development, and growth. By basing the overarching framework of his study on openness of the school and family systems, Dr. Okafor builds on the idea behind the saying, It takes a village to raise a child. The academic relationship between the home and the school must be improved to guarantee sustainable student academic performance and the home climate is a major contributor to what children bring to school, just as the school climate is a major determinant to how it is transformed.
Download or read book Alternative Routes to Teaching written by Pam Grossman and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years, alternative certification for teachers has emerged as a major avenue of teacher preparation. The proliferation of new pathways has spurred heated debate over how best to recruit, prepare, and support qualified teachers. Alternative Routes to Teaching provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on alternative certification. It takes readers beyond the simple dichotomies that have characterized the debate over alternative certification, encourages them to look carefully at the trade-offs implicit in any route into teaching, and suggests ways to “marry” the proven strengths of both traditional and alternative approaches.
Download or read book An Analysis of Alternative School Effectiveness on Student Achievement written by Scott Douglas Moger and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a comparative analysis investigating student achievement, attendance rates, grade point average and credit earned by at-risk students attending an alternative high school of choice, at-risk students attending a traditional high school and at-risk students attending a Disciplinary Alternative Education Placement Campus within the same school district. Three separate groups totaling 180 students were involved in this study. Each of the three groups consisted of 60 at-risk students from one of the three campuses. All of the students participating in the study were students labeled "at-risk" of not graduating from high school and had a minimum of three or more at-risk indicators attached to each student. None of the students used in the study were in a special education program. The three different groups of at-risk students were compared in five separate categories: raw scores on the state mandated Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) on the individual Mathematics and Reading tests, attendance, credit accrual, scale scores on the TAKS Mathematics and Reading tests, and grade point averages (GPAs). In applying a test of significance a simple or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to the data sets of each campus used in the study. Statistical significance was found to be present in 7 of 13 data sets within the five categories studied. The school district involved in the study was a large 5-A district located in central Texas with an enrollment of over 8,900 students at the completion of this study. According to the research, student TAKS scores vary from year to year and tended to increase in the second year regardless of the campus students attended. Students who attended a tradition high school campus had higher attendance rates than students who attended alternative campuses. Students with three or more at-risk indicators accrued credits at a slower rate and were not likely to graduate in four years. Students with three or more at-risk indicators were successful at passing the TAKS Reading Test. Students with three or more at-risk indicators were unsuccessful in passing the TAKS Mathematics test. Students with three or more at-risk indicators and who attended an alternative high school of choice tended to have a higher GPA when compared to students attending the other campuses.
Download or read book School Effectiveness written by Pamela Sammons and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the influence of students' background on educational outcomes, ways of contextualising school performance, and current issues and developments in school effectiveness research. Also investigated is how the research contributes to understanding of school and classroom processes.
Download or read book Teacher Quality written by Jennifer King Rice and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher quality is the single most important school-related factor influencing student success. The author examines the body of research on the subject of teacher quality to draw conclusions about which attributes makes teachers most effective, (experience, preparation programs and degrees, type of certification, specific coursework taken in preparation for the profession, and teachers' own test scores), with a focus on aspects of teacher quality that can be translated into policy recommendations and incorporated into teaching practice.
Download or read book Teaching for Excellence and Equity written by Nathan Burroughs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted between 1995 and 2015, it investigates grade four and grade eight data to assess trends in key teacher characteristics (experience, education, preparedness, and professional development) and teacher behaviors (instructional time and instructional content), and how these relate to student outcomes. Taking advantage of national curriculum data collected by TIMSS to assess changes in curricular strategy across countries and how these may be related to changes in teacher and student factors, the study focuses on the distributional impact of curriculum and instruction on students, paying particular attention to overall inequalities and variations in socioeconomic status at the student and country level, and how such factors have altered over time. Multiple methods, including regression and fixed effects analyses, and structural equation modelling, establish the evolution of these associations over time.
Download or read book Guide for Alternate Route Teachers written by Frances A. Levin and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New teachers get a wealth of advice and hands-on strategies for navigating through their first year of teaching-a first step that helps them understand the context of a classroom, develop effective classroom management skills, and successfully face the many and varied challenges of teaching in today's diverse classrooms. This resource addresses all of the important issues new teachers and alternate route teachers face as they enter their first classrooms-assessment, unit and lesson planning and design, and literacy instruction across the grades and content areas, including two chapters about literacy instruction with a focus on teaching students to read write, think, view, and speak well. "--Publisher.
Download or read book Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness written by Leonidas Kyriakides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity. The importance of using this instrument is demonstrated by analysing results of various effectiveness studies conducted over the last decade. The book draws upon research across the world, especially research conducted in the Europe, the United States, and Australasia. It is shown that promoting equity has no negative effect on the promotion of quality. The importance of using this methodological instrument to identify factors that promote both quality and equity at different educational levels (i.e. teacher, school and educational system) is stressed. The book also demonstrates how we can measure stability and changes in the effectiveness status of schools over time in terms of fostering quality and equity. In addition it underlines the importance of identifying factors measuring changes in the effectiveness status of schools in terms of equity and points to the alternative strategies that can be used at school and system level. In our attempt to encourage the further development and use of this methodology for school improvement purposes, we demonstrate how experimental studies can be conducted to discover whether and under which conditions the proposed methodology can help schools promote both quality and equity. Finally, implications for school evaluation, research, educational policy and practice are drawn. In this way, the book contributes significantly to the debate on how quality and equity can be achieved and encourages policy-makers and practitioners not to view these two dimensions of effectiveness as being in competition with each other but as constituting the major objectives of any reform policy and/or improvement effort at school and/or national levels.
Download or read book Education Reforms written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Quality Teaching and Learning written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together and compares the teacher education policies and practices of eight high-achieving countries to consider what creates high-quality teachers in today's world.
Download or read book Building a Quality Teaching Force written by C. Emily Feistritzer and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the evidence gleaned from people who have been at the forefront of working with alternate route programs. The authors describe lessons learned in key areas of demonstrated success in building a quality teaching force through alternate routes to teaching: Recruitment and selection of candidates for successful teaching Mentoring and support Program content and curriculum Candidate assessment Organization and management The book is designed to assist those creating and/or implementing programs for the preparation of teachers primarily in field-based settings.
Download or read book Handbook of Education Policy Research written by Gary Sykes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this comprehensive, AERA-sponsored Handbook. Organized into seven sections, the Handbook focuses on (1) disciplinary foundations of educational policy, (2) methodological perspectives, (3) the policy process, (4) resources, management, and organization, (5) teaching and learning policy, (6) actors and institutions, and (7) education access and differentiation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Handbook’s over one hundred authors address three central questions: What policy issues and questions have oriented current policy research? What research strategies and methods have proven most fruitful? And what issues, questions, and methods will drive future policy research? Topics such as early childhood education, school choice, access to higher education, teacher accountability, and testing and measurement cut across the 63 chapters in the volume. The politics surrounding these and other issues are objectively analyzed by authors and commentators. Each of the seven sections concludes with two commentaries by leading scholars in the field. The first considers the current state of policy design, and the second addresses the current state of policy research. This book is appropriate for scholars and graduate students working in the field of education policy and for the growing number of academic, government, and think-tank researchers engaged in policy research. For more information on the American Educational Research Association, please visit: http://www.aera.net/.
Download or read book Qualities of Effective Principals written by James H. Stronge and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be a good school principal? No two principals work exactly the same way, but research shows that effective principals focus on a core set of factors critical to fostering success among all students. In this second edition of Qualities of Effective Principals, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu delineate these factors and show principals how to successfully balance the needs and priorities of their schools while continuously developing and refining their leadership skills. Throughout the book, the authors provide practical tools and extensive research that will help principals * Assess, exhibit, and harness instructional leadership to meet a school's goals. * Foster and sustain an effective school climate for learning. * Select, support, and retain high-quality teachers and staff. * Manage school resources effectively and efficiently. * Create, maintain, and strengthen internal and external community relationships. * Define their role in student achievement. This book also includes practical skills checklists, along with quality indicators and red flags for effective leadership. Qualities of Effective Principals, 2nd Edition, is an excellent resource for both experienced and new principals committed to developing and leading strong schools that help all students succeed.
Download or read book Developing Assessment Capable Visible Learners Grades K 12 written by Nancy Frey and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When students know how to learn, they are able to become their own teachers.” —Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and John Hattie Imagine students who describe their learning in these terms: “I know where I’m going, I have the tools I need for the journey, and I monitor my own progress.” Now imagine the extraordinary difference this type of ownership makes in their progress over the course of a school year. This illuminating book shows how to make this scenario an everyday reality. With its foundation in principles introduced in the authors’ bestselling Visible Learning for Literacy, this resource delves more deeply into the critical component of self-assessment, revealing the most effective types of assessment and how each can motivate students to higher levels of achievement.
Download or read book What the Research Says about Alternative Teacher Certification Programs Information Capsule written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shortage of qualified teachers across the U.S. has contributed to the popularity of alternative certification programs. These programs are designed to attract individuals into the teaching profession by allowing candidates to become certified without having to complete a traditional teacher education program. This Information Capsule reviewed research related to the following seven questions: (1) Have alternative certification programs increased the diversity of the teaching workforce? (2) How do the retention rates of teachers certified through alternative routes compare to those of traditionally prepared teachers? (3) Do the achievement levels of students assigned to teachers certified through alternative routes differ from the achievement levels of students assigned to traditionally trained teachers? (4) Do teachers who enter the classroom through alternative certification programs report more student attendance and behavioral problems than teachers who were traditionally trained? (5) Do alternative certification programs adequately prepare teachers for the classroom? (6) How do principals rate the teachers at their school who were certified through alternative programs? (7) What are the characteristics of effective alternative certification programs? Research indicates that most alternative certification programs provide a viable source of high-quality teachers and even increase the diversity of the teaching workforce. Many studies have found that alternatively certified teachers can produce student achievement gains comparable to teachers certified in traditional programs. In fact, evidence suggests that teachers' years of experience, rather than the manner in which they obtained their certification, is a more reliable indicator of their future ability to positively impact student achievement. Similarly, the school at which a teacher is placed has also been found to play a larger role in their effectiveness than the route through which certification is obtained. There is great variation in the quality of alternative certification programs and comparisons across programs are difficult. In addition, participants tend to experience the same program in dramatically different ways, depending upon their educational backgrounds, past experiences, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs. In other words, many factors contribute to a teacher's effectiveness, including the school to which they are assigned, their years of teaching experience, and their content area knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs. The route through which certification is obtained is just one of these factors. Examples of noteworthy alternative certification programs operating across the U.S. are provided at the conclusion of this report.
Download or read book Developing and Maintaining a High Quality Teacher Force written by Howard P. McKeon and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Emily Feistritzer, Executive Director, Center for Educational Information, Wash., DC; Katrina Robertson Reed, Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services, District of Columbia Public Schools, Wash., DC; Robert Strauss, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Beverly Young, Associate Director for Teacher Education and K-12 Programs, California State University, Long Beach, CA; and Marci Kanstoroom, Research Director, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and Research Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Washington, DC.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching written by Drew Gitomer and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 1553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Edition of the Handbook of Research on Teachingis an essential resource for students and scholars dedicated to the study of teaching and learning. This volume offers a vast array of topics ranging from the history of teaching to technological and literacy issues. In each authoritative chapter, the authors summarize the state of the field while providing conceptual overviews of critical topics related to research on teaching. Each of the volume's 23 chapters is a canonical piece that will serve as a reference tool for the field. The Handbook provides readers with an unaparalleled view of the current state of research on teaching across its multiple facets and related fields.
