Scale-Up in Education Issues in Practice

by Schneider, Barbara; McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780742546608
• ISBN10: 0742546608
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Scale-Up in Practice: An Introduction	p. 1
Researching Scale-Up
Overview: Scaling Up Promising Educational Interventions: Rigorous Research and a Focus on the Instructional Core	p. 15
Designing Field Trials of Educational Innovations	p. 23
National Efforts to Bring Reform to Scale in High-Poverty Schools: Outcomes and Implications	p. 41
Scaling Assessment-Driven Instruction Using the Internet and Handheld Computers	p. 69
Scaling Up Highly Rated Middle Science Curriculum Units for Diverse Student Populations: Features That Affect Collaborative Research and Vice Versa	p. 91
Commentary: Implementation and Evaluation of Scale-Up	p. 123
Implementing Scale-Up
Overview: From Early Reading to High School Mathematics: Matching Case Studies of Four Educational Innovations against Principles for Effective Scale-Up	p. 131
Scaling Up High School Reforms: Model Specificity and Local Decision Making	p. 141
Rethinking Sustainability of Curricular Innovations: Notes from Urban Detroit	p. 165
When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor That Listens	p. 183
Scaling Up Success for All: The First Sixteen Years	p. 201
Commentary: Challenges, Incentives, and Obligations of Conducting Scale-Up Research	p. 229
References	p. 237
Index	p. 257
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 265
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