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| Home Language Survey Data Quality Self-Assessment Most state departments of education across the U.S. require or recommend that districts use a home language survey as the first step in a multi-step process for identifying students who qualify for English learner student services. However, existing home language surveys may not reveal ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: February 2017 |
| How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low–Performing Schools and Districts This report describes and analyzes how eight state education agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region—those of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont–identify and support low-performing schools and districts ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: March 2009 |
| How kindergarten entry assessments are used in public schools and how they correlate with spring assessments This study examined how many public schools nationwide used kindergarten entry assessments (KEAs), and for what purposes; the characteristics of public schools that used KEAs; and whether the use of KEAs was correlated with student assessment scores in reading and mathematics in spring ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Making Connections ; Publication Date: October 2016 |
| How States Use Student Learning Objectives in Teacher Evaluation Systems: A Review of State Websites This report provides an overview of how states define and apply student learning objectives (SLOs) in evaluation systems. The research team conducted a systematic scan of state policies by searching state education agency websites of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. to identify ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: What's Happening ; Publication Date: March 2014 |
| How Student and School Characteristics are Associated with Performance on the Maine High School Assessment Using multilevel regression models to examine how student characteristics, student prior achievement measures, and school characteristics are associated with performance on the Maine High School Assessment, the study finds statistically significant relationships between several of ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: February 2011 |
| Impact of the Thinking Reader Software Program on Grade 6 Reading Vocabulary, Comprehension, Strategies, and Motivation Improving adolescent literacy is a critical step toward improving adolescent academic achievement (Kamil , Borman, Dole, Kral, Salinger, & Torgesen, 2008). “Adolescent literacy” commonly refers to the skills that students in Grades 4–12 need in order to successfully learn by reading, ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: NCEE/REL Evaluation Report ; Publication Date: April 2011 |
| Investigating the Relationship between Adherence to Connecticut’s Teacher Education and Mentoring Program Requirements and Teacher Retention This study examined data from Connecticut’s induction and mentoring program for beginning teachers, called the Teacher Education and Mentoring (TEAM) Program. The TEAM Program requires beginning teachers to complete five instructional modules, submit reflection papers, and meet with a ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Descriptive Study ; Publication Date: September 2020 |
| Logic models for program design, implementation, and evaluation: Workshop toolkit The Logic Model Workshop Toolkit is designed to help practitioners learn the purpose of logic models, the different elements of a logic model, and the appropriate steps for developing and using a logic model for program evaluation. Topics covered in the sessions include an overview of ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Tools ; Publication Date: May 2015 |
| Math Education Practices for Students with Disabilities and Other Struggling Learners: Case Studies of Six Schools in Two Northeast and Islands Region States This report describes in-depth practices at six schools that are making targeted efforts to improve math education for students with disabilities and other struggling learners. It examines each school's practices for improving the math learning of all students as well as specific ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: August 2008 |
| Measuring How Benchmark Assessments Affect Student Achievement This report examines a Massachusetts pilot program for quarterly benchmark exams in middle-school mathematics, finding that program schools do not show greater gains in student achievement after a year. But that finding might reflect limited data rather than ineffective benchmark ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: December 2007 |
| New Measures of English Language Proficiency and Their Relationship to Performance on Large-Scale Content Assessments Using assessment results for 5th and 8th grade English language learner students in three Northeast and Island Region states, the report finds that the English language domains of reading and writing (as measured by a proficiency assessment) are significant predictors of performance on ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: January 2009 |
| Online course use in New York high schools: Results from a survey in the Greater Capital Region What's Happening Report: As in most states, New York does not currently have a state-level protocol for collecting data about schools' objectives or methods for offering online courses. The goals of the study conducted by the REL Northeast & Islands' Northeast Rural Districts Research ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: What's Happening ; Publication Date: March 2015 |
| Parent Involvement Strategies in Urban Middle and High Schools in the Northeast and Islands Region This report summarizes efforts to develop and pilot test a protocol for collecting information about parent involvement policies, practices, and programs being implemented at the middle and high school levels. The protocol can be used to expand documentation of strategies selected, ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Issues & Answers ; Publication Date: April 2009 |
| Patterns of classroom quality in Head Start and center-based early childhood education programs REL researchers analyzed data from the 2002/03 Head Start Impact Study (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) using latent class analysis to determine whether multiple measures, each designed to address one aspect of classroom quality, could collectively differentiate ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: What's Happening ; Publication Date: October 2016 |
| Patterns of English learner student reclassification in New York City public schools This study was designed to describe patterns in reclassification from English learner to English proficient, how the patterns changed over time as students spent more time in New York City (NYC) schools, and how reclassification patterns differed by specific student characteristics. ... » more info |
Northeast & Islands Publication: Making Connections ; Publication Date: October 2016 |