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REL Midwest: An Overview. Matt Dawson Director, REL Midwest July 2012. Title of Slide–36 pt Bold. Research Alliances. Examples of Year 1 TA.
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REL Midwest: An Overview Matt Dawson Director, REL Midwest July 2012
Examples of Year 1 TA • MURA: District is partnering with Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest to develop a system for monitoring implementation fidelity of Tier 2 interventions that is capable of providing formative feedback to district and school personnel who are implementing these interventions • Dropout Prevention: Examining predictors of high school dropout; workshops to implement an early warning system tool • College and Career Success: Literature review; data catalog and gap analysis • Leadership for School Improvement: Literature review; survey development; data catalog and gap analysis; report of “baseline” PLC/coaching practices
Examples of Year 1 Research and Evaluation • Beating the Odds: Examining MDE’s identification approaches, with the goal of providing information that will assist MDE in the revision of these approaches, if appropriate • College and Career Success: Identifying predictors of college readiness among measures collected in the state longitudinal data system. • MURA: Study examining the relationship between student, teacher, and parent survey measures and school productivity in order to provide evidence on the utility of surveys as a component of principal evaluation. • Early Childhood Education: Documents the distribution of ratings in ECE settings in Michigan with the TQRIS as currently implemented and proposes a series of sensitivity analyses that examine whether and how ratings of quality would change, given changes in the calculation or scoring structure of Michigan’s TQRIS
Matt Dawson P: (630) 649-6563 E-Mail:mdawson@air.org REL Midwest 1120 East Diehl Road, Suite 200 Naperville, IL 60563-1486 General Information:866-730-6735