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School Indicators Profiles SIG  Sessions/Presentations/Papers

AERA Annual Meetings
San Diego, CA 1998

Recent Developments in School Effectiveness Indicators and Use of Indicators 

SIG/School Indicators and Profiles; SIG/School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Chair: Rolf K. Blank, CCSSO  
Discussant: Ramsay W. Selden, Education Statistical Services Institute/AIR

Presentations/Papers:  

• Intervention or Reinvention? An Analysis and Delineation of Issues of Construct Validity in One State's Accountability Legislation.  Jerry G. Mathews, E. Raymond Hackett, James Pennell, Auburn University
  
  
• Using School-Level Achievement Data as an Indicator in Determining Core Education Costs.  David L. Silvernail, University of Southern Maine
  
  
• The Importance of Identifying Levels in Multilevel Analysis: An Illustration of Ignoring Top or Intermediate Levels in School Effectiveness Research.  Marie-Christian J. Opdenakker, Jan Van Damme, K.U. Leuven Research Center, Belgium
  
  
• Measurement of School and Classroom Effectiveness: A Hierarchical Approach.  Eugene P. Adcock, Dawn Sipes, Prince George's County Public Schools (MD); Gary Phillips, U.S. DOE
  
  
• A Longitudinal View of Change in School Effectiveness Status. John A. Freeman, University of Alabama; Charles Teddlie, Eugene Kennedy, Louisiana State University

School Profiles and Indicators Membership Meeting and Panel Discussion on Improving K-12 Indicators 

SIG/School Indicators and Profiles

Chair: Linda Crone-Koshel, The Education Alliance
Moderator: Rolf K. Blank, CCSSO

Panel Discussion:  Improving K-12 Education Indicators for School Profiles and District and State Reports

• Student Achievement. Jeff Beaudry, University of Southern Maine
  
  
• School Climate. Doug Willms, University of New Brunswick
  
  
• Teacher Preparation. Peter Prowda, Connecticut DOE
  
  
• School Effectiveness Index. Bobby Franklin, Louisiana DOE
  
  
• Student Achievement Reporting. Jennifer Manise, CCSSO

The Conditions and Climates of Effective Schools 

SIG/School Climate; SIG/School Effectiveness and School Improvement; SIG/School Indicators and Profiles--Paper Presentations

Chair: Cletus Bulach, West Georgia College
Discussant: Linda Crone-Koshel, The Education Alliance

Presentations/Papers:

• Conditions Under Which School-Based Management Influences Teaching and Learning. Kenneth Leithwood, OISE
  
  
• Factors Affecting Teacher Flexibility Toward Educational Reform. Don C. Adams, Bucknell University
  
  
• A Case Study of the Louisiana School Effectiveness and Assistance Program (SEAP). Deborah S. Heroman, Sharon Pol, Charles Teddlie, Robin Jarvis, Lysah Kemper, Louisiana State University
  
  
• Instructional Leadership in Middle Schools: A Shared or Solitary Phenomenon. Robin G. Jarvis, Charles Teddlie, Louisiana State University
  
  
• Alcohol Use Among Rural Adolescents: School as a Moderator of Individual Psychobehavioral Risk. Gary G. Huang, Synectics, Inc.

New Developments in Use of Assessments and Indicators 

SIG/School Profiles and Indicators; SIG/School Effectiveness and School Improvement--Roundtables

Roundtable Topics/Papers:

• Teacher Absenteeism as a School Profile Indicator. Peter M. Prowda, Judith Thompson, Connecticut DOE
  
  
• Are Teachers Classroom Assessment Practices Useful Indicators of Education Reform? Jeffrey S. Beaudry, University of Southern Maine
  
  
• Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Comprehensive Assessment and Reporting: Educational Policy. Beverly Lyseng, Jose L. da Costa, University of Alberta

Integrating School Indicators, School Effectiveness, and School Improvement Research--The Louisiana School Effectiveness Program (SEAP)

SIG/School Indicators and Profiles; SIG/School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Chair: Charles Teddlie, Louisiana State University
Discussant: Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, University of Durham, U.K.

Papers/Presentations:

• Joining School Indicator, School Effectiveness, and School Improvement Research--The International Perspective. David Reynolds, University of Newcastle, U.K.; Charles Teddlie, Louisiana State University
  
  
• Dueling Agenda--Louisiana's Prescription for Balancing the Often Competing Demands of Education Improvement and Accountability. W. Marlyn Langley and Bobby Franklin, Louisiana Department of Education
  
  
• Analyzing Statewide School Effectiveness Datasets Accurately and Fairly--A Review of SEAP-I. Eugene Kennedy, Louisiana State University; Garrett Mandeville, University of South Carolina; Linda Crone, West Virginia Education Fund
  
  
• Gathering and Analyzing Intensive School-level Process Data--A Review of SEAP-II. Susan Kochan, Louisiana Department of Education; Maryann Durland, Kentucky Institute for Educational Research; Robin Jarvis, Lysha Kemper, Louisiana State University
  
  
• Tying School Improvement to School Accountability: A Review of SEAP-III. James Meza, University of New Orleans; Sam Stringfield, Johns Hopkins University
  
  
• The SEAP Process--Illustrative Case Studies from SEAP-II and III. Debbie Heroman and Sharon Pol, Louisiana State University; Bobby Franklin, Louisiana Department of Education