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Translating The Statistical Representation Of The Effects Of Education Interventions Into More Readily Interpretable Forms, Mark W. Lipsey, Kelly Puzio, Cathy Yun, Michael A. Hebert, Kasia Steinka-Fry, Mikel W. Cole, Megan Roberts, Karen S. Anthony, Matthew D. Busick Nov 2012

Translating The Statistical Representation Of The Effects Of Education Interventions Into More Readily Interpretable Forms, Mark W. Lipsey, Kelly Puzio, Cathy Yun, Michael A. Hebert, Kasia Steinka-Fry, Mikel W. Cole, Megan Roberts, Karen S. Anthony, Matthew D. Busick

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This paper is directed to researchers who conduct and report education intervention studies. Its purpose is to stimulate and guide them to go a step beyond reporting the statistics that emerge from their analysis of the differences between experimental groups on the respective outcome variables. With what is often very minimal additional effort, those statistical representations can be translated into forms that allow their magnitude and practical significance to be more readily understood by the practitioners, policymakers, and even other researchers who are interested in the intervention that was evaluated.


The Potential Of Photo-Talks To Reveal The Development Of Scientific Discourses, Cassie Quigley, Gayle Buck Apr 2012

The Potential Of Photo-Talks To Reveal The Development Of Scientific Discourses, Cassie Quigley, Gayle Buck

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This study explores the potential of a photo-elicitation technique, photo-talks (Serriere, 2010), for understanding how young girls understand, employ and translate new scientific discourses. Over the course of a nine week period, 24 kindergarten girls in an urban girls’ academy were observed, videotaped, photographed and interviewed while they were immersed into scientific discourse. This paper explicitly describes how their emerging discursive patterns were made visible through this methodological tool. The findings are presented in vignettes in three themes uncovered during our analysis which are the following: Presented the recollection of the scientific Discourse, Described the understanding of scientific Discourse, and …


Knowledge, Leadership And The Role Of Spirituality: An Exploration Of Principal As Spiritual Leader, Amanda Werts, Jane Clark Lindle, Robert C. Knoeppel, Emily Riester Green, Matt Della Salla Jan 2012

Knowledge, Leadership And The Role Of Spirituality: An Exploration Of Principal As Spiritual Leader, Amanda Werts, Jane Clark Lindle, Robert C. Knoeppel, Emily Riester Green, Matt Della Salla

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Recent scholarship (Knapp, Copland, Honig, Plecki & Portin, 2010; Louis, Leithwood, Wahlstrom, Anderson et al., 2010) demonstrates the impact of school leadership on student success. Using the research model of the ISSPP (Day, 2010), a team of researchers utilized a dynamic approach to identify leadership practices and beliefs that could be attributed to rises in student achievement and diminishing achievement gaps. In this paper, we present a cross-case analysis of three elementary schools in the southeastern US. Our findings highlight one particular aspect of these practices and beliefs: spirituality.


Alternative Support For Teachers In Challenging Economic Times: The Use Of Virtual Coaching, C. C. Bates Jan 2012

Alternative Support For Teachers In Challenging Economic Times: The Use Of Virtual Coaching, C. C. Bates

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This qualitative study explored the use of virtual literacy coaching by examining 18 coaching sessions between a university-based literacy coach and a first-grade reading interventionist using Adobe Connect, a web-based collaborative tool. The application provided a virtual meeting space and through the use of video pods the teacher and coach had synchronous audio and video communication. Each coaching session lasted approximately one hour and included a pre-observation discussion, a 30-minute individualized lesson with a struggling reader, and a debriefing conversation. Data, including transcriptions of the coaching sessions, interviews with participants, field notes, and journal entries were analyzed using the constant-comparative …


61st Yearbook Of The Literacy Research Association, Pamela J. Dunston, Susan King Fullerton, C. C. Bates, Kathy Headley, Pamela M. Stecker Jan 2012

61st Yearbook Of The Literacy Research Association, Pamela J. Dunston, Susan King Fullerton, C. C. Bates, Kathy Headley, Pamela M. Stecker

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