Understand Your Program’s Effectiveness with the Program Evaluation Toolkit

REL Central’s Program Evaluation Toolkit includes a series of eight learning modules that begin at the planning stages of an evaluation and progress to sharing your findings with stakeholders (https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/central/resources/pemtoolkitindexasp...
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Variations in District Strategies for Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented and abrupt stoppage of in-person learning in schools across the country. State education agency leaders in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming needed information on proposed strategies...
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Examination of the Validity and Reliability of the Kansas Clinical Assessment Tool

Although national assessments for evaluating teacher candidates are available, some state education agencies and education preparation programs have developed their own assessments. These locally developed assessments are based on observations of teaching...
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Understanding Access to and Participation in Dual Enrollment by Locale and Income Level

By providing students with an opportunity to take college courses and earn college credits while in high school, dual enrollment programs effectively increase college access, enrollment, and degree attainment. Such programs might be particularly beneficial...
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The Impact of Career and Technical Education on Postsecondary Outcomes in Nebraska and South Dakota

Education leaders in Nebraska and South Dakota partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Central to examine how completing a sequence of career and technical education (CTE) courses in high school affects students' rates of on-time high school...
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