Exploring the Relationship between Teachers’ Literacy Strategy Use and Adolescent Achievement
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RBS examined the relationship between teachers’ literacy strategy use and adolescent achievement at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado in 2010.
- Kelly Feighan, Elizabeth Heeren, and Jill Feldman
RBS analyzed data collected from four years of coaching implementation and analysis at the Second Annual International Literacy Coaching Summit in Corpus Christi, Texas in 2010.
- Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools; Elizabeth Heeren, Memphis City Schools
RBS evaluated a successful school district-evaluator partnership for the U.S. Department of Education.
- Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools; Rorie Harris, Memphis City Schools
- EERS 2010
RBS described the literacy strategies in the MCS Teachers’ Toolkit.
- Elizabeth Heeren, Memphis City Schools; Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools
RBS reported the Year 3 summary of the Memphis Striving Readers Project at the Striving Readers Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in 2010.
- Research for Better Schools
RBS presented research on the Mid-south Striving Readers Project Targeted Intervention at SREE in Washington D.C. in 2010.
- Debra Coffey; Research for Better Schools
- SREE, Washington, D.C.: March 2010
RBS discussed teacher and student outcomes with results from an analysis of whole-school intervention at the American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida in 2009.
- Kelly Feighan, Elena Kirtcheva, and Eric Kucharik; Research for Better Schools
- American Evaluation Association Annual Meeting: November 12, 2009
The authors closely examined the item and domain-level inter-rater reliability of the Memphis Striving Reader Project Classroom Observation Protocol (MSRP-COP)
- Ning Rui and Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools
- American Educational Research Association 2009 Annual Meeting, Classroom Observation Special Interest Group, on Thursday, April 16, 2009
Focuses on teachers' perceptions of the impact of literacy strategies and the evidence they draw up upon to substantiate their claims of a strategies’ effectiveness or ineffectiveness
- Kelly Feighan and Debra Coffey, Research for Better Schools
- American Educational Research Association 2009 Annual Meeting, April 16, 2009
Instruments, results, and insights from a two-year evaluation of the implementation and impact of literacy coaching
- Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools and Dr. Elizabeth Heeren, Memphis City Schools
- First National Literacy Coaching Summit: April 4, 2009
Provides an MSRP motivation and overview, study design, sample demographics, Year 1 results, and future analyses
- Debra Coffey, Research for Better Schools
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Research Conference, November 2008
An introduction to the project and research design, Year 1 impacts, implementation data, and ongoing analyses
- Ric Potts, Elizabeth Heeren, and Rorie Harris, Memphis City Schools, J. Helen Perkins, University of Memphis, and Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools
- International Reading Association Research Conference, May 2008
An overview of the motivation, research design, implementation, initial impacts. and secondary research questions
- Deb Coffey, Research for Better Schools
- Eastern Evaluation Research Society Conference, April 2008
Paper presents a two-year summary of the combination of research-based approaches used to address challenges of collecting classroom observation data
- Jill Feldman and Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools
- Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, March 2008
An overview of the project motivation and goals, logic models, and description of Read 180™ and MCLA interventions
- Research for Better Schools
- Striving Readers Conference, U.S. Department of Education, March 13-14, 2008
A discussion of insights from RBS, University of Memphis, and Memphis City Schools and related research on effective partnerships
- Jill M. Feldman, Research for Better Schools
- American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, 2008
Includes baseline comparisons of treatment and control groups, models and analytic decisions, first year impacts, and brief conclusions
- Research for Better Schools and RMC Corporation, March 2008
Includes NSDC recommendations for policymakers and a heuristic for school district/university partnerships
- Richard Potts, Elizabeth Heeren, and Regina Washington, Memphis City Schools
- American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, March 2008
Highlights challenges faced during the project and ways to address specific challenges
- Kelly Feighan and Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools
- American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, November 2007
In addition to an overview of the project, discusses specific challenges
- Jill Feldman and Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools, 2007
A more in-depth description of the project design, research questions, and implementation
- Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools, 2007