Research & Evaluation
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National Evaluation of Title III Implementation Supplemental Report: Exploring Approaches to Setting English Language Proficiency Performance Criteria and Monitoring English Learner Progress
What are the best ways to measure the education progress of English language learners? This report, cowritten by WestEd's Robert Linquanti, is designed to help state education leaders with this very issue.
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Untapped Potential: The Status of Middle School Science Education in California
Only one in seven California middle school students receive the kind of high quality science instruction that engages them in the exploration and practice of science. This report explains why.
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Retirement Patterns of California Prekindergarten-Grade 12 Educators
How have the recent economic recession and the aging of the baby boomer population affected retirement rates in California's public school system? Find out in this Regional Educational Laboratory West study.
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Improving the Assessment of Student Learning in the Arts: State of the Field and Recommendations
How do we improve assessment of K-12 student learning in the arts, ultimately increasing academic performance? Find out in this first-of-its-kind study produced by WestEd for the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Focusing Formative Assessment on the Needs of English Language Learners
How can formative assessment enhance the teaching and learning of English language learner (ELL) students? What, if anything, from our experience with summative assessment of ELL students can inform effective formative assessment practices? And finally, what are the opportunities and challenges inherent in integrating formative assessment into instruction for ELL students in this era of Common Core and other next generation standards? Find out in this paper.
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Policing Schools’ Strategies: A Systematic Search for Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Studies
This report, written by WestEd's Anthony Petrosino, Sarah Guckenburg, and Trevor Fronius, documents a systematic search to identify experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations that assess the effectiveness of non-educational policing strategies and programs in schools.
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Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative Fifth Annual Technical Report
How can we prepare students for a successful career in the 21st Century California workforce? Find out in this annual report, highlighting the Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative's progress in 2010/11.
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Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative 2010-2011 Annual Report
How can we help students prepare for successful careers in the 21st century? Find out in this free report, summarizing the most recent progress and impact of California's Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathways Initiative.
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Comparing Achievement Trends in Reading and Math Across Arizona Public School Student Subgroups
What percentage of Arizona public school students is proficient in reading and math? How does the percentage differ by student subgroup and school level? And what are the results when only charter schools are examined? Find out in this REL West research brief.
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A Brief Overview of Principal Evaluation Literature: Implications for Selecting Evaluation Models
This overview provides highlights from The Policies and Practices of Principal Evaluation: A Review of the Literature, a comprehensive literature review of principal evaluation systems. With this base, the brief helps leaders consider options for developing their evaluation systems—building their own or choosing a commercially available product.
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The Policies and Practices of Principal Evaluation: A Review of the Literature
This comprehensive literature review, cowritten by Karen Kearney of the Leadership Initiative at WestEd, provides key points from primary and secondary sources that practitioners and policymakers can use to improve their principal evaluation systems.
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STEM Teachers in Professional Learning Communities: From Good Teachers to Great Teaching
This executive report summarizes the impacts of learning teams, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics content areas, on teacher practice.
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School Leadership: A Key to Teaching Quality
Based on the forum's deliberations, as well as a review of the literature and other data, this policy brief explains ways principals can promote learning and support teachers.
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Projecting the Need for California School Administrators Over 2010/11-2017/18: The Effects of Projected Retirement and Projected Changes in Student Enrollment Over Two-Year Increments
This technical brief, prepared by REL West, projects the need for new school-site administrators (principals and vice-principals) in California by region in two-year increments over 2010/11-2017/18.
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The Relationship Between English Proficiency and Content Knowledge for English Language Learner Students in Grades 10 and 11 in Utah
This study, prepared by REL West, examines the relationship between performance on Utah's English proficiency assessment and English language arts and mathematics content assessments by English language learner (ELL) students and compares the performance of ELL and non-ELL students on the content assessments.
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