2009 NEI CREATE conference
As educators, we are interested in improving our educational practices based on the best available research. It's no wonder why the main theme of the 2009 conference in Louisville is: "Research and Evaluation that Informs Leadership for Results."
Hosted By:
The Brown Hotel*
Louisville, Kentucky
October 8-10 2009
2009 NEI Keynote Presentations
Ronald Ferguson, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Joseph Murphy, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Doris Redfield, Ph.D.
Evantia, Inc.
Dan Stufflebeam, Ph.D.
Western Michigan University
Presentations
- Examining School-Linked Social Services A Case Study: A Look at Jefferson County (JCPS) Youth Services Centers (YSC) – Flourishing or Failing?
Deborah Owens - An
Integrated,
Comprehensive,& Standards-Based System
of Educator Evaluation
Jean Williams - Going Beyond the Indicators to Assess Progress in the Advanced Placement Incentive Program
Barbara D. Acosta and Lori A. McGee - Alternative Certification and Licensure
Jacob D. Joseph, Suzanne Mann, Karen T. Schaeffer, Patricia Moore Shaffer - Best Practices in Program Evaluation: Strategies for Increasing Survey Response Rates
- Valid and Reliable Physical, Life, and Earth Science Content Assessments for Middle School Teachers
Thomas R. Tretter, Sherri L. Brown and William S. Bush - Educational Leadership Master's Degree Program Evaluation: Applying the UCLA Evaluation Model
Jennifer Clayton - Research and Evaluation that inform Leadership for Results: Masking Variations in Achievement Gains
Eliot R. Long - Program Evaluation Model Using Guskey’s Five Level Evaluation Model
- Academic achievement among middle school re-designated fluent English proficient students: Closing the gap?
Yuliya Ardashevak, Thomas R. Tretter and Marti Kinny - An Overview of Validity Investigations on the Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT)
Arthur Thacker and Andrea Sinclair - What Happens When Teachers Participate in Classroom Walkthroughs?
Ann S. Allen and Kathleen Topolka-Jorissen - A Closer Look at School Effects in Value-Added Modeling
Suzanne Franco and Kent Seidel - An Evaluation of a High School Science Vocabulary Intervention
Paula E. Egelson, Donnia Richardson and Kelly Bowers - Graduation Pathways: "Early Warning System to Keep Freshmen On-Track to Graduate”-
Research and Evaluation that inform Leadership for Results
- PDF Version - Doing Program Evaluation with Low Quality Special Education Data: Making a
Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear
Stephen K. Miller, Yvonne Anton Kelley Niemann and Thomas J. Simmons - Fifth Year findings of TQE Partnership Grant Evaluation
Trudy L. Clemons, Charles Igel and R. Carrie Harris - Evaluating Teacher Leadership Skills Within a Collaborative Framework
Janet L. Applin - Evaluation Realities: What the Theories and Standards Do Not Say
Les Bolt - Examining School-Linked Social Services
A Case Study: A Look at Jefferson County (JCPS) Youth Services Centers (YSC) – Flourishing or Failing?
Deborah Owens - Reliability Analysis of Self-efficacy and Locus of Control Scales for Students with Mild Disabilities
Thomas J. Simmons, Yvonne Anton Kelley Niemann and Stephen K. Miller - Five Plus One Early Learnings for High Schools and Teacher Preparation from an Early College Evaluation
John Fischetti, Sally MacKain and Robert Smith - Using Mixed Methods to Develop a Questionnaire on Accountability for Teachers and Principals
Nora Gannon, Tysza Gandha & Katherine Ryan - What Do Great Teachers Do? Results from an International Comparative Study
Leslie Grant, James Stronge, Catherine Little and Sun Yaling - How LEA’s Use Data to Inform Practice: The Opportunities for and Challenges to Use In Schools and Districts
Ellen B. Mandinach - Informed Assessments Resulting in Leadership for Learning: What Systems Can Do!
Diane Calhoun and Karen Wetherill - Do Instructional Practices and Learning Environment Relate to Test Scores?
Three Years of School Visits In Kentucky
Milton Koger, Emily Dickinson, and Lee Koger - Pressing Problems in Teacher Evaluation: A Review of the Case Law in the SREB States
Kathy Kidder-Wilkerson - Accepting Justice Kennedy’s Dare: Jefferson County Public Schools and the Future of Integration
Daniel Kiel - The NYC Aspiring Principals Program: A School-Level Evaluation
Sean Corcoran, Amy Schwartz and Meryle Weinstein - A Meta-analysis of Research on the Mediated Effects of Principal Leadership on Student Achievement: Examining the Effect Size of School Culture on Student Achievement as a Proxy Measure of Teacher Effectiveness
Lane Mills, Jim McDowelle and Art Rouse - Validating Measures of Educational Resources for Coleman’s Social Capital
Stephen K. Miller and Juanita Hoover Lynes - Utilizing University and Public School Partnerships to Collect and Analyze Data
S. Kay Gandy, Pamela Jukes and Lisa D. Murley - Hidden Implications of Persistence Assumptions for Value-Added Teacher Effects
S. Paul Wright - Implementing Professional Learning Communities to Improve Assessment of Student Learning
Ryan Ashley and Dr. Barbara Howard - Applying the Personnel Evaluation Standards to Teacher Evaluation
Barbara B. Howard - Improving Teachers’ Competency in Classroom-Based Assessment
Christopher R. Gareis and Leslie W. Grant - Effective Teachers in the United States and China: A Comparative Analysis
Xianxuan Xu, James H. Stronge and Leslie W. Grant - Assessment and Accountability Using PeopleSoft and iStrategy
Ann Larson, Katie Hunt, Joanne Webb and Robert Goldstein - How LEA’s Use Data to Inform Practice: The Opportunities for and Challenges to Use In Schools and Districts
Ellen B. Mandinach - Successful Practices: Lessons Learned from Evaluations of Multiple Mathematics and Science Programs
Cathy Maltbie, Karen Ludwig and Latiera Brunson-Evans - Networking for Capacity Building in ESL/ENL Best Practices
Magdalena Herdoíza-Estévez, Amy L. Freyn and Emily Dickinson - Using Participatory Methods to Develop a Professional Development Evaluation Framework: A Case Study
Patricia Moore Shaffer - Reliability Analysis of Self –efficacy and Locus of Control for Students with Mild Disabilities
Thomas J. Simmons, Yvonne A. Niemann and Stephen K. Miller - The Role of Student Evaluation Practices in a Balanced Assessment System
Don Klinger and Karen Paavola - Sustaining Institutional Growth Through a Culture of Accountability
Leslie Griffin and Jenetta Waddell - Using Evaluation to Ensure Accountability in Professional Development
Thomas R. Guskey - Teacher Preparation through the Teacher Work Sample: Focusing on Assessment and Analysis of Student Learning
Janet Lynne Tassell and Rebecca Stobaugh - Educational Accountability, Educational Leadership and the Novice Teacher
Trina L. Spencer - Utilizing University and Public School Partnerships to Collect and Analyze Data
S. Kay Gandy, Pamela Jukes and Lisa D. Murley
Poster Sessions
- Assessing a Whole-child Approach to Student Learning
Florence Chang, Tamara Lewis and Lue Peabody - Responsiveness to Culture and Context in Evaluation
Judi Vanderhaar and Brittany Carpenter - Redesigning Two High Needs Middle Schools: What Matters Most?
Beverly J. Winsch and Sandra Ledford - Training for “Guest Teachers” Substitutes
Geneva Stark Price, Shelley Thomas and Judi Vanderhaar - Running a District-Wide Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Program
Raymond A. Fehr - Rethinking Diversity: The New Vision for Student Assignment in Lefferson County, KY
Roberty Rodosky and Dena Dossett - Turning Around Schools: A Review of What Works from the Research and Reality
Timothy Sauer and Dena Dossett