In this Issue | Formative Assessment Study funded by NSF | Early childhood data systems | Cost-effectiveness of high school completion programs | Continuous improvement in schools | IES Knowledge Utilization Center announced | and more!
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NSF grant funds CPRE study of formative assessment professional development in Philadelphia schools
OGAP is a systemic and intentional formative assessment system in mathematics grounded in the research on how students learn mathematics. Through extensive professional development, supported by tools and resources, teachers learn how to use formative assessments in their classrooms and analyze the resulting information about student thinking to guide subsequent instruction. OGAP is not a curriculum, but is designed to be used with an existing curriculum on a regular basis. The project has successfully enrolled 60 Philadelphia-schools in the randomized control trial and will begin training teachers this summer in preparation for data collection this fall.
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IES has awarded the NCER Knowledge Utilization Center grant to William R. Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder), CPRE's Heather Hill (Harvard Graduate School of Education), CPRE's Cynthia E. Coburn (Northwestern University), CPRE's James P. Spillane (Northwestern University), Anna-Ruth Allen (University of Colorado Boulder), Jon Fullerton (Center for Education Policy Research), Derek Briggs (University of Colorado Boulder).
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