Memphis Striving Readers Project (MSRP)

Conference Presentations

Exploring the Relationship between Teachers’ Literacy Strategy Use and Adolescent Achievement

Available for download in Acrobat and Powerpoint formats.

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

The Data are in: Four Years of Coaching Implementation & Analysis

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

Evaluating a Multi-Year, Federally-Funded Educational Initiative: Lessons from a Successful School District-Evaluator Partnership

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

Literacy Strategies in MCS Teachers’ Toolkit: Striving Readers Grant Data Informs Practice

RBS described the literacy strategies in the MCS Teachers’ Toolkit.

  • Elizabeth Heeren, Memphis City Schools; Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools

Year 3 Summary of the Memphis Striving Readers Project (MSRP)

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

Mid-South Striving Readers Project Targeted Intervention: Secondary Analyses

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

Striving to Link Teacher and Student Outcomes: Results from an Analysis of Whole-school Interventions

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

Inter-rater Reliability of a Classroom Observation Protocol-A Critical Appraisal

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

But I Know it Worked: Unpacking Teachers’ Perceptions about the Effects of Literacy Strategies on Students

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

"She Was My Backbone": Measuring the Impact of Literacy Coaching

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

Does READ 180™ Work for Struggling Middle School Students? Year 1 Results from the Memphis Striving Readers Project

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

Will That Work for Us? Interpreting Research from The Memphis Striving Readers Project (MSRP)

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

Evaluating a Literacy Curriculum for Adolescents: Results from Three Sites of the First Year of Striving Readers

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

Working on the Fly: Developing Sound Classroom Observation Systems for Evaluations of Programs Under Construction

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

The Memphis Striving Readers Project

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

Building and Sustaining University-Community Research Partnerships in an Urban Context: Insights Offered by “The Trilogy”

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

MSRP Year 1 (Preliminary) Impact

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

Extending University-Urban School Partnerships: The Memphis Striving Readers Project

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

Conducting RCTs in Schools:  Challenges and Solutions

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

Three ‘R’s for Evaluating the Memphis Striving Readers Project: Relationships, Real-World Challenges, and RCT Design

In addition to an overview of the project, discusses specific challenges

  • Jill Feldman and Kelly Feighan, Research for Better Schools, 2007

The Research Design: MSRP

A more in-depth description of the project design, research questions, and implementation

  • Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools, 2007

 

 
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