Education & learning publications
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Early Childhood Integrated Data Analytic Self-Assessment Rubric
The ECIDS toolkit has seven components and is useful as a self-assessment tool and roadmap for improving ECIDS.
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Dropout prevention in the time of COVID-19
As school closures due to COVID-19 separate students from structured routines and educational supports, the number of disengaged students may continue to grow.
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Racial Differences in Special Education Identification and Placement: Evidence Across Three States
In this article, Todd Grindal, Laura Schifter, Gabriel Schwartz, and Thomas Hehir examine race/ethnicity differences in students’ special education identification and subsequent placement in segregated educational settings.
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How Measuring Your Preschool Child Outcomes Data Quality Can Lead to Data Use for Better Results
In this workshop, national early childhood technical assistance providers discuss strategies and tools for states to measure and improve the quality of their preschool special education child outcomes data.
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When adaptive learning is effective learning: comparison of an adaptive learning system to teacher-led instruction
Adaptive learning systems personalize instruction to students’ individual learning needs and abilities. Such systems have shown positive impacts on learning. Many schools in the United States have adopted adaptive learning…
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What foundational skills matter for Algebra I success?
This study examined whether student knowledge in five domains of math assessed in grade 7 was associated with Algebra I achievement.
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Strengthening the Clinical Orientation of Teacher Preparation Programs
This paper describes five levers CSU campus-district partnerships used to make clinically oriented reforms to teacher preparation as part of the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI)...
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Strengthening the Data Use and Continuous Improvement Capacity of Teacher Preparation Programs
This paper describes four levers that helped university-district partnerships participating in the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI) use data and continuous improvement practices to execute teacher preparation reforms...
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Measuring Chinese middle school students’ motivation using the Reduced Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (RIMMS): A validation study in the adaptive learning setting
This study validates a measure of student motivation, the Reduced Instructional Materials Motivation Survey, with a sample of Chinese middle school students using an adaptive learning system in math.
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Effect of accessing supports on higher education persistence of students with disabilities
Evidence from propensity analyses indicated that students with disabilities who had accessed universally available and/or disability-related supports were significantly more likely to persist in their 2- or 4-year college programs.
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The NGEI Approach to Improving Teacher Preparation in the CSU Through a System of Supports
This paper describes three levers that helped the funder, the S.D., Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, execute the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI)...
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Building Strong Partnerships to Improve Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation
This paper describes four levers university teacher preparation programs (TPPs) and districts participating in the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI) used to create strong partnerships...