Ann-Marie Faria
Associated IES Content
FY2023
FY2023 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel
FY2022
FY2022 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel
FY2021
FY2021 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel
report
Impact Study
Getting students on track for graduation: Impacts of the Early Warning Intervention and Monitoring System after one year
Although high school graduation rates are rising--the national rate was 82 percent during the 2013/14 school year (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)--dropping out remains a persistent problem in the Midwest and nationally. Many schools now use early warning systems to identify students who are at risk of not graduating, with the goal of intervening early to help students get back on track for on-time graduation. Although research has guided decisions about the types of data and indicators u...
Apr 01, 2017
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Descriptive Study
Quality improvement efforts among early childhood education programs participating in Iowa's Quality Rating System
This report describes the quality improvement efforts of early childhood education programs participating in Iowa's Quality Rating System (QRS). It identifies supports and barriers to quality improvement and examines how quality improvement supports and activities relate to changes in program quality ratings across time. The study team developed the following research questions for this study in partnership with stakeholders in Iowa. Among early childhood education programs participating in t...
Mar 01, 2017
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Other Resource
The "I" in QRIS Survey: Collecting data on quality improvement activities for early childhood education programs
A quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) is a voluntary state assessment system that uses multidimensional data on early childhood education programs to rate program quality, support quality improvement efforts, and provide information to families about the quality of available early childhood education programs. QRISs have two components: systematic ratings of program quality and integrated quality improvement support and activities. The latter component aims to help programs make impr...
Feb 01, 2017
report
Descriptive Study
Development and implementation of quality rating and improvement systems in Midwest Region states
This report describes common and unique approaches that Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest Region states have adopted in developing and implementing their quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs). A QRIS is a method for assessing, improving, and communicating the quality of early childhood education and care providers. The study examined the ways that Race to the Top--Early Learning Challenge grants have shifted the QRIS landscape and how states have been influenced by the gr...
Jun 01, 2016
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Descriptive Study
Examining Changes to Michigan's Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS)
Documenting and improving early childhood program quality is a national priority, leading to a rapid expansion of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs). QRISs document and improve the quality of early childhood education programs and provide clear information to families about their child care choices. The current study described how early childhood programs were rated in Michigan's QRIS and examined how alternative approaches to calculating ratings affected the number of programs ra...
Mar 01, 2015
Grant
Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research and Advanced Statistical Methods
The University of Miami established the Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research and Advanced Statistical Methods program to train fellows to conduct in-depth research on education issues arising in diverse, urban settings.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305C050052
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