Scale-Up in Education

Issues in Practice

Edited by Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald

Not available to order

Publication date:

28 December 2006

Length of book:

282 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461643241

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools. This volume also includes findings and insights from several federally funded research projects charged with bringing conceptual and analytic rigor to studies of successful scale-up.

All of the chapters address the challenges of conducting scientific research in schools and provide insights for obtaining the support of teachers and school administrators. The result is a highly readable volume ideally suited for educators interested in the issues that inform intervention research, researchers concerned with designing practical studies that are methodologically sound, and policymakers engaged in evidence-based school reform.

Part 1 Part I - Researching Scale-Up
Chapter 2 Overview - Scaling Up Promising Educational Interventions: Rigorous Research and a Focus on the Instructional Core
Chapter 3 Chapter 1- Designing Field Trials of Educational Innovations
Chapter 4 Chapter 2 - National Efforts to Bring Reform to Cale in High-Poverty schools: Outcomes and Implications
Chapter 5 Chapter 3 - Scaling Assessment-Driven Instruction Using the Internet and Handheld Computers
Chapter 6 Chapter 4 - Scaling Up Highly Rated Middle Science Curriculum Units for Diverse Student Populations: Features that Affect Collaborative Research and Vice-Versa
Chapter 7 Commentary - Implementation and Evaluation of Scale-Up
Part 8 Part II - Implementing Scale-Up
Chapter 9 Overview - From Early Reading to High School Mathematics: Matching Case Studies of Four Educational Innovations Against Principles for Effective Scale Up
Chapter 10 Chapter 5 - Scaling Up High School Reforms: Model Specificity and Local Buy-In
Chapter 11 Chapter 6 - Rethinking Sustainability of Curricular Innovations: Notes from Urban Detroit
Chapter 12 Chapter 7 - When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
Chapter 13 Chapter 8 - Scaling Up Success for All: The First 16 Years
Chapter 14 Commentary - Challenges, Incentives, and Obligations of Conducting Scale-Up Research

This book contains a series of highly readable articles investigating how to design and conduct studies in varied educational settings, and how to implement a specific intervention once it has proven successful. Recommended.