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Ready Schools Miami: A Systems Change Effort to Improve Children's Outcomes (Year 3 Evaluation)
Shari Golan, Marjorie Wechsler, Dana Petersen, Nyema Mitchell, C.J. Park, & Mario Snow

Ready Schools is a radical systems change effort to improve the academic, health, and social outcomes of historically underserved children in one of this country’s largest and most diverse communities, Miami-Dade County. This report presents Year 3 findings of SRI's evaluation.

Feb, 2011 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Case Studies in Education Early Childhood Educational Impact Evaluation Implementation Evaluation School + Community Partnerships School Improvement: Student Success
California's Teaching Force 2010: Key Issues and Trends
Jennifer Bland, Juliet Tiffany-Morales, Patrick Shields, Katrina Woodworth, & Ashley Campbell

One of a series of SRI reports for policymakers about how California’s teacher workforce has been credited with increasing investments in teacher development and improving workforce quality.

Dec, 2010 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Teacher Quality + Learning
Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Second Comprehensive Annual Report
Viki Young, Nancy Adelman, Nancy Bier, Lauren Cassidy, Kaeli Keating, Christine Padilla, Corinne Singleton, Haiwen Wang, Ann House, Sylvia Rodezno, David Sherer, Victoria Tse, Kaily Yee, & Kristin Klopfenstein

This report is the second comprehensive annual report of the Texas High School Project (THSP) evaluation.

Dec, 2010 Technical Report Details
Topics: School Improvement Science, Technology, Engineering + Mathematics Education
Supporting generative thinking on the integer number line
Geoffrey B Saxe, Darrell Earnest, Yasmin Sitabkhan, Lina C Haldar, Katherine E Lewis, & Ying Zheng

This report provides evidence of the influence of a tutorial “communication game” on fifth graders’ generative understanding of the integer number line.

Oct, 2010 Journal Details
The ATE Suitability Inventory: A Tool for Analyzing Features of Workforce Education Instructional Materials
Louise Yarnall

This report documents the design and validation of a checklist intended to provide a consistent set of features that can be used to “tag” instructional materials so instructors can find and select them for their classrooms.

Oct, 2010 Article Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions Teacher Quality + Learning
Study of the Austin Independent School District's Redesign and High School Reform Initiative: Interim Report
Daniel Humphrey, Corinne Singleton, Viki Young, Haiwen Wang, & Kristin Klopfenstein

This report describes the Austin Independent School District’s recent effort to improve its high schools through a variety of initiatives led by the Office of District Redesign.

Jun, 2010 Technical Report Details
Topics: School Improvement Science, Technology, Engineering + Mathematics Education
Spas and the Global Wellness Market: Synergies and Opportunities
Ophelia Yeung

SRI developed one of the first-ever comprehensive analyses of the global wellness industry.

May, 2010 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Capacity Building Economic + Technical Analysis Industry Competitiveness + Positioning Strategy Development
Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: First Comprehensive Annual Report
Viki Young, Nancy Adelman, Nancy Bier, Lauren Cassidy, Ann House, Kaeli Keating, Christine Padilla, C.J. Park, Haiwen Wang, Xin Wei, Sylvia Rodezno, Corinne Singleton, Victoria Tse, Kaily Yee, & Kristin Klopfenstein

This first annual report of the Evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP) describes early findings for schools beginning reform implementation in the 2006–07 and 2007-08 school years.

May, 2010 Technical Report Details
Topics: School Improvement Science, Technology, Engineering + Mathematics Education
Poster: Assessment Research to Inform Community College Instructional Goals
Louise Yarnall, Geneva Haertel, Larry Gallagher, Rob Johnstone, Robert Mislevy, & Ernest Pascarella

A poster presenting the team's research on how to make visible, by means of assessment, the important, foundational knowledge in domain areas.

Apr, 2010 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions
Meeting Student Challenges to Innovative Instruction with Improved Assessment Techniques
Louise Yarnall

Presentation of an R&D project focused on the assessment of project-based learning involving community college instructors, and engagement in some of the reflection activities that helped instructors identify and measure the skills taught in innovative instruction.

Mar, 2010 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions Community College: Reform to Support Real-World Learning School Improvement: Curriculum + Instruction Teacher Quality + Learning