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  School Improvement Survey

  1/26/07 - National Institute for Urban School Improvement,, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This survey helps schools measure how individuals associated with the school disclose their perspectives of how an ideal school would operate and compare it to the degree to which the school accomplishes the statement. Questions are categorized into: teacher and school practices, school climate, and school/community partnerships. This survey tool is also available to take online at http://niusi.edreform.net/login.html.

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  Educational Technology in Public School Districts: Fall 2008, First Look

  1/16/09 - Lucinda Gray, Laurie Lewis

  "This report provides national data on the availability and use of educational technology in public school districts during fall 2008. The data are the results of a national district-level survey that is one of a set that includes district, school, and teacher surveys on educational technology. Every year between 1994 and 2005 (with the exception of 2004), the Office of Educational Technology (OET) in the U.S. Department of Education asked the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES...

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  Improving survey participation and returns

  1/14/09 - Worsham, D.

  As the SPP family survey results start rolling in it is becoming apparent to many that the returns are not quite what had been hoped for. The response rate may be low, or some of the questions not answered, or one particular demographic group not represented at all, due either to failure to be able to deliver the survey to them, or failure of the families to return the completed surveys. The variations on the theme are many, and the “solutions” just as varied, sometimes difficult, and in...

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  Let's Try: Mini Surveys

  1/14/10 - Ferguson, Dianne

  Learning what families think about the school and their children’s progress is important information for school personnel, and we need to work harder to gather it! So, instead of sending home a long survey, use opportunities when family members are already present in the school to collect their responses on a couple of survey questions that they can complete quickly and move on.

• Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Perceptions of the Achievement Gap

  1/1/05 - Bol, Linda, Berry, Robert Q., III

  The purpose of this study was to survey the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers on factors contributing to the achievement gap and ways to reduce this gap. National Council of the Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) members were surveyed, and a total of 379 secondary teachers responded. Overall, respondents were most likely to attribute the achievement gap to student characteristics, such as differences in motivational levels, work ethic, and family support. Furthermore, teachers from...

• Testing conditions influence the race gap in cognition and achievement estimated by household survey data

  1/1/03 - Kim, Hyoshin, Baydar, Nazli, Greek, April

  The present study investigates the hypothesis that the race gap estimated using achievement test scores administered during household surveys may partly be accounted for by measurable testing conditions such as interviewer characteristics, interviewer-child interactions, and the testing environment in the home. Using the child assessments of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) in 1992, the findings clearly indicate that the factors related to testing conditions in the home have...

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  2005 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender youth in our nation’s schools.

  1/3/09 - Joseph G. Kosciw, Elizabeth M. Diaz

  "GLSEN's biennial National School Climate Survey is the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's secondary schools."

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  2007 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender youth in our nation’s schools.

  1/3/09 - Joseph G. Kosciw, Elizabeth M. Diaz, Emily A. Greytak

  "GLSEN's biennial National School Climate Survey is the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's secondary schools. The 2007 survey includes responses from 6,209 LGBT students between the ages of 13 and 21 from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data collection was conducted through community-based groups, online outreach, and targeted advertising on the social networking site MySpace."

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  A guide to analyzing data from the Family Outcomes Survey

  1/18/09 - Melissa Raspa, Kathleen Hebbeler, Don Bailey

  The Family Outcomes Survey (FOS) provides a way for state and local programs serving young children to assess the extent to which families have achieved a variety of outcomes. This document provides suggestions on how to analyze the data from the survey; the analyses can then be used to plan for program improvement. The document is written for state agency staff, but many of the suggested analyses could be carried out at the local level as well.

• Acquisition of simple and complex knowledge: a knowledge gap perspective [computer file]

  1/1/05 - Le Heron, Judy, Sligo, Frank

  This paper assesses university students' acquisition of simple and complex knowledge, in exploring whether the knowledge gap hypothesis (KGH) with its origins in community-based research into people's informal learning from mass media, provides insights into students' acquisition and retention of information. The KGH posits that attempts to equalise knowledge within a community by releasing new information into it often either has no such effect, or even worsens knowledge inequities. The...

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  Alternative Schools and Programs for Public School Students At Risk of Educational Failure: 2007-08

  1/31/10 - Priscilla Rouse Carver, Laurie Lewis

  "This First Look report presents data from a recent district Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) survey about alternative schools and programs available to students during the 2007-08 school year. Alternative schools and programs are specifically designed to address the educational needs of students at risk of school failure in a setting apart from that of the regular public school. They can be administered by the district or an entity other than the district. The study includes information...

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  An early look at the Economic Stimulus Package and the public schools: Perspectives from state leaders

  1/7/09 - Center on Education Policy,

  "This report looks at the early efforts of states to implement the elementary and secondary education provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The findings are drawn from a survey of officials in state education agencies and governors’ offices in 44 states and the District of Columbia. Key findings concern the financial condition of state education budgets, progress toward meeting the reform assurances, interest in national content standards and the Race to the Top...

• An Investigation of the Impact of Racially Diverse Teachers on the Reading Skills of Fourth-Grade Students in a One Race School

  1/1/09 - Burt, Jo Linn, Ortlieb, Evan T., Cheek, Earl H., Jr.

  Despite efforts from the No Child Left Behind Act (2000) aimed at better educating minority children, the African American-Caucasian test score gap persists. The population of public school students is increasingly diverse; yet, 90[percent] of public school teachers are Caucasian females (Graybill, 1997). Within this ethnographic dichotomy, what effect does the racial makeup of faculty have on minority student success? This inquiry's central focus is to determine whether teacher ethnicity...

• Another Look at the Achievement Gap

  1/1/08 - Ford, Donna Y., Grantham, Tarek C., Whiting, Gilman W.

  Many studies have been conducted on the achievement gap, with most findings pointing to how school and family variables affect Black students' achievement. Another body of work focuses on how social variables (i.e., peers) impact Black students' achievement, including how accusations of "acting White" affect the performance of Black students and contribute to the achievement gap. The current descriptive and exploratory study extends this work by examining peer pressure among Black students...

• Another look at the achievement gap: Learning from the experiences of gifted black students

  1/1/08 - Ford, Donna Y., Grantham, Tarek C., Whiting, Gilman W.

  Many studies have been conducted on the achievement gap, with most findings pointing to how school and family variables affect Black students' achievement. Another body of work focuses on how social variables (i.e., peers) impact Black students' achievement, including how accusations of "acting White" affect the performance of Black students and contribute to the achievement gap. The current descriptive and exploratory study extends this work by examining peer pressure among Black students...

• Another Look at the Achievement Gap: Learning From the Experiences of Gifted Black Students

  1/1/08 - Ford, Donna Y., Grantham, Tarek C., Whiting, Gilman W.

  Many studies have been conducted on the achievement gap, with most findings pointing to how school and family variables affect Black students' achievement. Another body of work focuses on how social variables (i.e., peers) impact Black students' achievement, including how accusations of "acting White" affect the performance of Black students and contribute to the achievement gap. The current descriptive and exploratory study extends this work by examining peer pressure among Black students...