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      Working Smarter to Leave No Child Behind: Practical Insights for School Leaders

      Brian M. Stecher,Laura Hamilton,Gabriella Gonzalez

      How own states, districts, and schools meet the requirements of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act?

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      Measuring Hard-to-Measure Student Competencies: A Research and Development Plan

      Brian M. Stecher,Laura S. Hamilton

      This report provides guidelines to promote thoughtful development of practical, high-quality measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies that practitioners and policymakers can use to improve valued outcomes for students.

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      Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems

      Laura S. Hamilton,Brian M. Stecher,Jennifer L. Steele

      The authors analyze the systems of three districts and two states that have begun or are planning to incorporate measures of student performance into teacher evaluations. They examine how the…

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      Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2006

      Brian M Stecher,Scott Epstein,Laura S Hamilton,Julie A Marsh,Abby Robyn

      The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act…

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      Teaching Practices and Student Achievement: Report of First-year Findings from the Mosaic Study of Systemic Initiatives in Mathematics and Science

      Stephen P. Klein,Laura Hamilton,Daniel McCaffrey,Brian M. Stecher,Abby Robyn

      In our increasingly technological society, improving student performance in mathematics and science has become a challenge. This study investigates the relationship between student achievement in mathematics and science and the…

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      Organizational Improvement and Accountability: Lessons for Education from Other Sectors

      Brian M. Stecher,Heather Barney,Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Marjorie Pearson,Marc Chow

      Describes accountability models in the manufacturing, job training, legal, and health care sectors; summarizes their effectiveness; and draws specific lessons for educators.

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      Toward a Culture of Consequences: Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services

      Brian M. Stecher,Frank Camm,Cheryl L. Damberg,Laura S. Hamilton,Kathleen J. Mullen

      Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at…

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      Toward a Culture of Consequences: Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services–Executive Summary

      Brian M. Stecher,Frank Camm,Cheryl L. Damberg,Laura S. Hamilton,Kathleen J. Mullen

      Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at…

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      Competency-Based Education in Three Pilot Programs: Examining Implementation and Outcomes

      Jennifer L. Steele,Matthew W. Lewis,Lucrecia Santibanez,Susannah Faxon-Mills,Mollie Rudnick

      Competency-based education provides students with flexible pacing and opportunities for choice, and it awards credit for evidence of learning. RAND evaluated implementation of three pilot programs, along with students’ experiences…

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      Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2015-2016

      Brian M Stecher,Deborah J Holtzman,Michael S Garet,Laura S Hamilton,John Engberg

      This is the final report of a six-year evaluation of the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, documenting the policies and practices each site enacted and their effects on student…

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      Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013-2014

      Brian M. Stecher,Michael S. Garet,Laura S. Hamilton,Elizabeth D. Steiner,Abby Robyn

      RAND Corporation, in partnership with the American Institutes for Research, evaluated implementation of key elements of the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching in three public school districts and four charter…

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