Category Archives: Assessment

Alternative Education: Standards, Descriptions, Action

March 8, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Several helpful documents are available for describing, implementing and evaluating alternative education programs. The first three refer to alternative education broadly, that is, providing a choice of programs for all students. The last one is more attuned to at-risk students.
Ray Morley and the Iowa Association of Alternative Education prepared a thoughtful document, Alternative Learning Environments: [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Choices, Ed Alt for Everyone, Loflin, John, Nat. Alt Ed Assoc., Reports | Comments (0)

A Second Side to the Story

March 26, 2008 – 10:06 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, At risk programs, High schools, Iowa Assoc. Alt Ed, Morley, Ray, Personalized Educ, Policy, Reform, Reports, Research, Students, Training | Comments (0)

What Doesn’t Get Measured Doesn’t Get Done

March 13, 2008 – 7:50 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Mental health, No Child Left Behind, Policy, Reform, Reports, Research, Students | Comments (0)

Students Describe a Better Approach to Learning

June 2, 2007 – 11:14 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Education Evolving, Open sector, Reform, Students | Comments (0)

8 Year Study: New Books

April 7, 2007 – 11:51 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Eight Year Study, High schools, Reform, Reports, Research, Students | Comments (0)

Charter Schools: State by State

February 8, 2007 – 10:46 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Alternatives, Center for Ed. Reform, Charter schools, Choices, Research, Survey | Comments (0)

Amazing Learning Alternative

November 22, 2005 – 8:23 pm
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Education Revolution, Reform | Comments (0)

No Child Left Behind

November 16, 2005 – 10:15 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in U.S. Dept. of Educ. | Comments (0)

Measuring Student Autonomy and Motivation

May 3, 2005 – 9:54 am
By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in EdVisions Cooperative, Survey | Comments Off

Comprehensive School Reform Report

March 7, 2005 – 8:09 pm

Congress gave $145 million for school reform in 1998 and more in subsequent years. The Longitudinal Assessment of Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes reports on year one of the grants. Schools which received funding exercised more staff decision making authority, adopted national reform models and followed a written plan more than other schools [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Reform, Reports | Comments Off

Charter Schools: Good or Bad Alternative?

January 28, 2005 – 2:22 am

Numerous studies have tried to assess the charter school movement. This is like trying to say public schools in general are successful or are unsuccessful. Charter schools vary enormously from highly experimental to ultra traditional, from serving affluent suburban students to rescuing high-need students, and from tiny to huge. Judgments about charter schools usually focus [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Articles, Charter schools, Reports | Comments Off

Comprehensive School Reform

November 1, 2004 – 6:47 am

Comprehensive school reform efforts say different forms of schooling are necessary. There have been many such attempts over the past 15 years often with gigantic sums of money attached. A new report, From Whole School to Whole System Reform, describes two major approches: the work of the New American Schools in 4,000 schools and the [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Reform, Reports, Research, U.S. Dept. of Educ. | Comments Off

Assessment of Attitudes Etc.

April 13, 2003 – 2:08 pm

The Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART) is a database that provides information on 1000s of instruments that measure attributes associated with youth development programs. This is a very useful resource in an era where so much rides on standardized tests of achievement.
CART includes descriptions of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is [...]

By Wayne Jennings | Also posted in Research, Survey | Comments Off