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Finding the story behind the numbers : a tool-based guide for evaluating educational programs /
Learn to define a quality program, analyze what is and is not working, and avoid ""test score fatigue"" with a user-friendly, three-part framework for school improvement
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, CA :
Corwin Press, a Sage publications Company,
[2007]
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| Colección: | NU Curriculum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Author�s Note: Dilemma of a Consultant
- About the Author
- Chapter 1
- The Four Pillars of Program Quality
- Concept 1: Using Test Results�A Four-Step Process
- Step 1: Establishing the Environment
- Step 2: Working with the Data
- Step 3: Establishing Cause
- Step 4: Developing the Improvement Plan
- Concept 2: Why Test Scores Result the Way They Do
- Six Reasons
- A Very Important Point
- Concept 3: What Data are Important and What Data are Useful?
- Importance versus Utility
- Concept 4: The Relationship between the Quality of our Work and the Quality of Student AchievementTwo Types of Data: Outcome and Process
- The Relationship between Process and Outcome Information
- Summary
- The Book: From This Point on
- Chapter 2
- Defining the Quality of an Educational Program
- The Three Faces of Quality
- Assessing the Three Faces of Quality
- The First Face of Quality: Effective Teachers
- Tool 1: Analysis of My Teaching Characteristics
- The Second Face of Quality: Program Elements�Analyzing our MAP
- Tool 2: Analysis of our MAP�The Support/Deterrent ApproachTool 3: Analysis of our MAP�The Rubric
- The Third Face of Quality: Leadership and the Creation of a Healthy Environment
- Tool 4: The Nine-Factor Profile
- An Essential Element of All Three Faces: Effective Collaboration
- Tool 5: A Collaboration Rubric
- Summary
- Chapter 3
- Planning and Professional Development
- Planning and Capacity Building
- Planning
- Ensuring High-Quality Planning Meetings
- Introduction to Tool 6: Checklist for Effective Planning
- Connecting Planning to Program QualityTool 7: Essential Agreements
- Tool 8: The Implementation Guide
- Tool 9: The Quality and Doability of the Plan
- Capacity Building
- Tool 10: Capacity-Building Evaluation Form
- Summary
- Chapter 4
- Setting Your Improvement Plan in Motion
- Step 1: Assess Your Beliefs
- Step 2: Review the 10 Tools
- Quality Teaching
- Quality Program
- Quality Leadership
- Quality Planning
- Quality Capacity Building
- Step 3: Determine How You Will Use the Tools
- Thanks for Coming Along
- Resource A: Reproducible ToolsResource B: Sources of Characteristics of Effective Teachers
- References
- Index