Maximizing the Policy Relevance of Research for School Improvement, Angela Urick, David E. DeMatthews, Timothy G. Ford

Автор: Angela Urick, David E. DeMatthews, Timothy G. Ford
Название: Maximizing the Policy Relevance of Research for School Improvement
ISBN: 1648022472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781648022470
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Education policy and policy making is shaped through the activities of a complex network of educators, educational leaders, researchers, community members, as well as government and non-government officials and organizations. Educational researchers are a critical player in this complex network and their investigations of various educational phenomena can answer questions relevant to the design and implementation of education policy for school improvement. Educational research, however, often has limited influence in larger policy conversations and decisions (Orland, 2009), and this is due to many factors. Educational researchers can provide an evidence-based starting place for discussions about school improvement with the complex network of stakeholders engaged in policy development and implementation, but they must be more intentionally and systematically thoughtful about the connections of their work to policy and policy making. Furthermore, researchers can increase the relevance of their work for policy through the careful design and framing of research in collaboration with end-users, and an awareness of its implications. In so doing, researchers can spur the interest and dissemination of their findings to wider audiences.

This book offers resources for education researchers, faculty, and advanced graduate students interested in maximizing the relevance of their research on policy for school improvement. In achieving this purpose, the book is organized into three sections: 1) A primer for education policy making in the United States; 2) Designing research to maximize education policy relevance; and 3) Engaging users of research to communicate its relevance to policymakers. This book is primarily for education researchers, faculty, and advanced graduate students seeking to improve the visibility and impact of their research on school improvement, particularly in the realm of educational policy and policy making. While this book is a volume in the book series for the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Leadership for School Improvement, the importance and usefulness of the topics covered span education research more broadly. Further, the content of this book serves as a comprehensive guide for how education researchers, in general, can better situate their work to influence policy. The book is intended to be utilized by university scholars, graduate students in research or policy courses, post-doctoral fellows, as well as research associates or directors in various organizations relevant to education such as research consulting groups, non-profits which serve education causes, teacher unions, state agencies or state-level educator organizations/ associations, and think tanks. Emerging or established researchers in any of these organizations who want to increase the relevance, significance and dissemination of their work into education policy will hopefully find this book useful.

Автор: Moreillon Judi
Название: Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Elementary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact
ISBN: 0838911803 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780838911808
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Time-strapped educators wonder whether partnering with teacher-librarians will realistically improve students’ scores, but studies show that collaboration improves overall effectiveness in increasing students’ reading comprehension. Moreillon draws on cutting-edge research in instructional strategies, offering a clear, rigorous roadmap to teaching reading comprehension in a proven collaborative process.

Автор: Young Nicholas D., Bonanno-Sotiropoulos Kristen, Smolinski Jennifer A.
Название: Achieving Results: Maximizing Student Success in the Schoolhouse
ISBN: 1475842260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475842265
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Achieving Results explains maximum preparedness for educators, at all levels, is essential in identifying the needs of students, and creating positive, safe learning environments. It presents the need for inclusive environments and strong relationships between stakeholders to harness the contributions of the school community.

Автор: Patricia Stringer
Название: Capacity Building for School Improvement: Revisited
ISBN: 946209327X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462093270
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. Through the eyes of an experienced researcher, schoolteacher, senior administrator and university lecturer, this book captures how a low decile school in New Zealand successfully built its capacity for improvement. Dr. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. The researcher spent over a year working with the staff, board and parents of this school discovering and recording authentic information about this school’s successful journey to success. For the researcher, this was an exciting experience; one that needs to be shared with the wider educational community. A must read book.

Автор: Patricia Stringer
Название: Capacity Building for School Improvement: Revisited
ISBN: 9462093288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462093287
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Описание: At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. Through the eyes of an experienced researcher, schoolteacher, senior administrator and university lecturer, this book captures how a low decile school in New Zealand successfully built its capacity for improvement. Dr. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. The researcher spent over a year working with the staff, board and parents of this school discovering and recording authentic information about this school’s successful journey to success. For the researcher, this was an exciting experience; one that needs to be shared with the wider educational community. A must read book.

Автор: Young Nicholas D., Bonanno-Sotiropoulos Kristen, Smolinski Jennifer A.
Название: Achieving Results: Maximizing Student Success in the Schoolhouse
ISBN: 1475842279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475842272
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Achieving Results explains maximum preparedness for educators, at all levels, is essential in identifying the needs of students, and creating positive, safe learning environments. It presents the need for inclusive environments and strong relationships between stakeholders to harness the contributions of the school community.

Автор: Diana Mindrila
Название: Exploratory Factor Analysis: Applications in School Improvement Research
ISBN: 1536124869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536124866
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: In education, researchers often work with complex data sets that include a multitude of variables. One question that often arises in such contexts is whether the structure of associations that underlies the data is accounted for by a latent construct. Exploratory factor analysis is a multivariate correlational procedure that helps researchers overcome such challenges. It helps reduce large data sets into main components or identify distinct constructs that account for the pattern of correlations among observed variables. These unobservable constructs are referred to as common factors, latent variables, or internal attributes, and they exert linear influences on more than one observed variable. Although exploratory factor analysis is widely used, many applied educational researchers and practitioners are not yet familiar with this procedure and are intimidated by the technical terminology. This book provides a conceptual description of this method and includes a collection of applied research studies that illustrates the application of exploratory factor analysis in school improvement research. The first chapter provides a theoretical overview of exploratory factor analysis. It explains the purposes for which this procedure can be used, the related terminology, the distinction between key concepts, the steps that must be taken, and the criteria for making the decisions. This information can serve as a starting point for researchers who need a brief, conceptual introduction to this topic. The following chapters present a series of research studies in which exploratory factor analysis was employed either by itself or in conjunction with other statistical procedures. The studies presented in this book address a variety of research problems in the field of school improvement. They specify how the factor analytic procedure was applied, and explain the theoretical contributions and the practical applications of the factor analytic results. In most studies, results from factor analysis were used for subsequent statistical procedures, thus helping researchers address more complex research questions and enriching the results.

Автор: Glanz Jeffrey
Название: Action Research: An Educational Leader`s Guide to School Improvement
ISBN: 1442223693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442223691
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This interactive edition of the widely popular resource features separate chapters introducing quantitative and qualitative research approaches and data analyses. A new chapter outlines how to initiate an action research project and another gives you just what you need to complete a project.

Автор: Yancovic, Mauricio Pino Torres, Alvaro Gonzalez Figueroa, Luis Ahumada Chapman, Christopher
Название: School improvement networks and collaborative inquiry
ISBN: 178769738X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787697386
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: This book describes the processes and challenges of implementing collaborative practices in School Improvement Networks, focussing specifically on examples from Chile. The Chilean case is significant for other challenging contexts, particularly rural communities, that still seek to implement collaborative inquiry projects.

Автор: Cherie B. Gaines
Название: Leadership for School Improvement: Reflection and Renewal
ISBN: 1641136022 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641136020
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Описание: Reflects on the foundations of the field of school improvement. This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels.

Автор: Pamela Macklin, Vic Zbar
Название: Driving School Improvement: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 1742864732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742864730
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Описание: Driving school improvement: A Practical Guide is designed to support school leaders in meeting their improvement challenge in ways that can be contextualised to their circumstances. Its focus is implementation, and it therefore contains tools, activities and pro formas that have been used successfully in a range of schools. These can be adapted to suit a particular context. While there are many books focused on school improvement, this book is a practical gem. It advocates that a school first diagnoses is where it is at, rather than adopt a ‘one size fits all’ strategy. The self-assessments, tools, processes and case studies provided then enable a school to craft its own improvement approach

Автор: Cherie B. Gaines
Название: Leadership for School Improvement: Reflection and Renewal
ISBN: 1641136030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641136037
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Описание: Reflects on the foundations of the field of school improvement. This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels.