ERIC ED294325: Critical Ingredients for School Improvement pdf

ERIC ED294325: Critical Ingredients for School Improvement

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Research for Better Schools and a Maryland county school district developed a school improvement program to examine the relationship between the program and subsequent improvement. The program involved a self-assessment survey, choosing goals for the following year, assigning a committee of practitioners to lead the program, executing the plan created by the committee, and completing the self-assessment survey at the end of the school year to analyze the amount of improvement. The Dimensions of Excellence Scales (DoES) was employed to assess program effects and the School Survey was employed to measure program implementation. The study reveals that every school except one significantly improved; schools that achieved high faculty completion rates on the DoES made only moderate school improvement; no relationship seemed to exist between participation in the program and the amount of improvement; improvement was affiliated with the original pretest status; and schools with better pretest scores attracted more faculty personnel to the program.

Essentially, no consistent relationship was evident between involvement in the program and school improvement. Future school improvement efforts should consider the context of the school. Sixteen references and 7 tables are included. (RG

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1988-03
• Year: 1988
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Improvement Programs, Pretests Posttests, School Effectiveness, School Surveys

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