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Which Middle School Model Works Best? Evidence From The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Brian V. Carolan, Christopher C. Weiss, Jamaal Matthews
Which Middle School Model Works Best? Evidence From The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Brian V. Carolan, Christopher C. Weiss, Jamaal Matthews
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
There are few areas of school organization that reflect more dissatisfaction than how to structure the education of adolescents in the middle grades. This study uses multilevel models on nationally representative data provided by the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to investigate the relationship between schools’ middle-level grade span and students’ math achievement. Classroom quality was considered as an explanation for any relationships between grade span and achievement. Also examined was whether gender and family structure moderated this relationship. Results indicate that there is no generalizable relationship between grade span configuration and math achievement, but that measures of classroom quality predicted …
Assessment360: A Promising Assessment Technique For Preservice Teacher Education, Nicole Barnes, Anna Gillis
Assessment360: A Promising Assessment Technique For Preservice Teacher Education, Nicole Barnes, Anna Gillis
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
The call for preservice teachers to exercise reflective practices has echoed through U.S. education policy and research for a number of years and is evident in U.S. preservice teaching standards. As a result, educator preparation programs are challenged to design learning experiences and assessments that foster reflection skills. This study describes a promising assessment technique, named Assessment360, which can be implemented during coursework to prepare future teachers to be reflective practitioners. Assessment360 is a formative assessment technique in which students reflect on the content of a quiz individually and collaboratively in order to develop a deeper and more integrated understanding …
Curricular Choice And Adolescents' Interest In Math: The Roles Of Network Diversity And Math Identity, Brian V. Carolan, Jamaal Matthews
Curricular Choice And Adolescents' Interest In Math: The Roles Of Network Diversity And Math Identity, Brian V. Carolan, Jamaal Matthews
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
Background/Context: Over the last two decades, school districts in the United States have increasingly allowed students and their families to choose the schools they attend and, at the high school level, the courses they take. While the movement to provide more curricular choice for students and families has accelerated, so, too, has the policy emphasis on increasing students' math achievement. The increased emphases on curricular choice and math achievement provide an opportunity to examine how students draw on their social capital when making curricular choices and whether the diversity of their relational resources is associated with math achievement. Purpose: We …
New Public Management And The New Professionalism In Education: Framing The Issue, Gary Anderson, Kathryn Herr
New Public Management And The New Professionalism In Education: Framing The Issue, Gary Anderson, Kathryn Herr
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
This article provides an introductory frame for this special issue dedicated to New Public Management and the New Professional Educator. We will intoduce the five articles and how they analyze the characteristics of NPM and this emerging new professional as well as forms of educator resistance and advocacy.