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- The Research Design: MSRP
A more in-depth description of the project design, research questions, and implementation
Jill Feldman, Research for Better Schools, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "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 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
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