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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Improvement Science"”.
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The effectiveness of Title I funding : an improvement science quantitative study.
… study will abide by the purpose and method of improvement science; however, the researcher will modify the PDSA framework to serve the outcome of this intervention. The researcher will conduct one PDSA cycle that will consist of two phases that exceed 90 days (about 3 months).
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Scaling up multi-tiered systems of support implementation with improvement science: A state-wide effort in school improvement
… multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and improvement science, promise new avenues of meeting the diverse needs of all students, but not enough research has been done to evaluate the impact of these practices on improving student outcomes at a large scale. This quantitative study used a …
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Utilizing Improvement Science to Advance a Stem Improvement Effort: Increase the Number of Underserved and Underrepresented Students Who Pursue A Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic Education by Building Collective Capacity
… in order to strategically plan their local STEM improvement effort. It offers the educational leader seven guiding principles, along with descriptions and illustrations of Improvement Science tools that include an improvement map, driver diagrams, and examples of one leader's efforts to address …
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Equity Battles: Multicultural Leadership for English Language Learner Students
… to address this issue. During this study, I used improvement science as the methodology and included a variety of stakeholders as participants. The conceptual framework used to guide this study included community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge. Using both the voices of ELL families and the …
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Making the Invisible Visible: Redefining Giftedness to Include ELL Students’ Community Cultural Wealth and Funds of Knowledge
<p>This study used improvement science methods to investigate a problem of practice surrounding the underrepresentation of ELL students in GT programming. This research addressed how teachers define giftedness using their underlying knowledge frameworks. The researcher conducted empathy interviews …
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Multi-Stage Research Focused on Instructional Redesign and Organizational Reculturing
Improvement science enables school leaders and practitioners to tackle local problems of practice via the design and implementation of interventions aimed at the advancement of overall performance. This improvement science project targeted change in classroom practices, specifically the need to …
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Development of Reading Comprehension Skills Among Students With Intellectual Disabilities Using Technologically-Based Reading Programs
… It offered a design for action using an Improvement Science Model to address the issue which will culminate in a discussion for a student-centered technologically-based reading comprehension curriculum that integrates reading comprehension skills development and technological skills.The …
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Improving the Practice and Culture of Early Learning in Ohio
… suggests a framework based on the principles of Improvement Science as one-way school districts can include preschool in their continuous improvement efforts. Document Analysis, is the method used to examine a continuous improvement protocol used in Ohio school districts known as The Ohio …
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IMPROVING TEACHER RETENTION IN THE GRANVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
… administration and within the community. This improvement study was conducted following a small-scale proof-of-concept, concentrated at a middle school within the district. Attempting to improve ill-structured problems such as teacher retention within a specific Local Educational …
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CREATING A FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE IN PreK-12 CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS
… in the southeastern United States. Using improvement science methodology with a parallel convergent design, the study administered the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey at three time points and conducted three focus group sessions with five elementary school principals …
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INCREASING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH THE USE OF DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES IN MIDDLE GRADES MATHEMATICS
… middle grades mathematics classrooms? Using an improvement science framework with a convergent mixed-methods design, the inquiry was implemented across three Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles. Quantitative data sources included End-of-Grade assessments, benchmark assessments, and diagnostic measures used …
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DEVELOPING A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE READING INSTRUCTION AND ACHIEVEMENT AT J. GLENN EDWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
… and resulting in a national epidemic for the improvement of reading instruction and learning. Specifically at J. Glenn Edwards Elementary School (JGEES) in Lee County, NC the reading problem could not be ignored as the school was performing below the state and district averages. Therefore, …
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Shared Leadership in Six Sigma Teams From the North Shore-LIJ Health System
… development, team dynamics, the Six Sigma and improvement science methodologies, and social network theory. This study also builds practical knowledge by outlining implications to factors such as change management and leadership development. The research builds knowledge by proposing a model …
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Increasing the Number of African American Students in Undergraduate Level Classes of Chinese: A Call to Action
… are employed that mainly include networked improvement communities, leadership and teamwork, and critical theories. The call for action strongly suggests the iterative cycle of Plan, Design, Study, and Act (PDSA) of the NIC improvement science (Bryk, Gomez, & Grunow, 2011) in the change …
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Traumatic lives finally liberated. Narrative exposure therapy in patients with severe mental illness
Contains fulltext : 289613.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Time to reflect: How portfolio use helps and hinders self-regulated learning
Contains fulltext : 292266.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Achieving Equity After SCALE: What Works, and Where Are We Now?
<p dir="ltr">The purpose of this research was to explore how community coalitions that participated in the Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) initiative use strategies, methods, and tools from the initiative, including the Community of Solutions (COS), in their …
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The physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the Netherlands: a solution for healthcare
Contains fulltext : 297633.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Utilising Routine Population Healthcare Data for Epidemiological Research and Quality Improvement in Care: Application of a National Acute Kidney Alerting System as a Proof of Concept
… issue known to cause avoidable harm and death. Improvement in its prevention and management is therefore considered an important goal for the healthcare sector. While improvement science states that without measurement, improvement is not possible, at the outset of this research, the …
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