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- No area in education has gone through such a dramatic expansion in knowledge, techniques, and attention than the field of educational research and evaluation.
- The national accountability and testing movement has been a contributing cause for effective and succesful schools.
- For example, in a study of 15 exemplary elementary and middle schools in three school districts that had improved instruction in reading and math over a three year period, a common characteristic of these schools were found to be the dileberate collection of information to decide on school wide actions for changing of:
- Curriculum,
- Lesson planning
- Professional development
- Individual assistance to teachers
- Teachers were involved in planning and implementing actions.
- Teachers included in determining the:
- Criteria
- Procedures
- Use of evaluation data
- If teachers are to extend their own thinking and commitment about collective instruction, they have to be part of the research and evaluation process
- In a high school collecting data on profiles of high school dropouts the dropout rate decreased by more than twelve percent (because the teachers became aware of the problems).
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