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Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools.
Sommario
Part 1 Part I - Researching Scale-Up
Chapter 2 Overview - Scaling Up Promising Educational Interventions: Rigorous Research and a Focus on the Instructional Core
Chapter 3 Chapter 1- Designing Field Trials of Educational Innovations
Chapter 4 Chapter 2 - National Efforts to Bring Reform to Cale in High-Poverty schools: Outcomes and Implications
Chapter 5 Chapter 3 - Scaling Assessment-Driven Instruction Using the Internet and Handheld Computers
Chapter 6 Chapter 4 - Scaling Up Highly Rated Middle Science Curriculum Units for Diverse Student Populations: Features that Affect Collaborative Research and Vice-Versa
Chapter 7 Commentary - Implementation and Evaluation of Scale-Up
Part 8 Part II - Implementing Scale-Up
Chapter 9 Overview - From Early Reading to High School Mathematics: Matching Case Studies of Four Educational Innovations Against Principles for Effective Scale Up
Chapter 10 Chapter 5 - Scaling Up High School Reforms: Model Specificity and Local Buy-In
Chapter 11 Chapter 6 - Rethinking Sustainability of Curricular Innovations: Notes from Urban Detroit
Chapter 12 Chapter 7 - When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
Chapter 13 Chapter 8 - Scaling Up Success for All: The First 16 Years
Chapter 14 Commentary - Challenges, Incentives, and Obligations of Conducting Scale-Up Research
Info autore
Barbara Schneider, Ph.D. is a John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor at Michigan State University and principal investigator of the Data Research and Development Center at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Sarah-Kathryn McDonald is executive director of the Data Research and Development Center and a research scientist at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Riassunto
Explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. This book includes reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, and guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a range of settings.
