TOPIC: Evaluation of Programs Addressing Barriers to Learning

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Aligning School Accountability, Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Practices. In Data Matters (Spring/Summer 2002, Issue #5, pp. 16-18), an Evaluation Newsletter published by the National TA Center for Children's Mental Health

Center Reports

• Evaluation of Impact

Guidance Notes

• Benchmark Checklist for Monitoring and Reviewing Progress in Developing a Comprehensive System to Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Expanding the Accountability Framework for Schools
• Information Resource: Data Related to Iowa's Work on Developing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports

Introductory Packets

• Introductory Packet: Evaluation Accountability: Getting Credit for All You Do

Newsletter Articles

• Accountability: Is it Becoming a Mantra? (Winter, '98)
• Addressing Barriers to Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base (Fall, '00)
• Expanding the Framework for School Accountability (Spring, '00)

Policy & Program Reports

• Addressing What's Missing in School Improvement Planning: Expanding Standards and Accountability to Encompass an Enabling or Learning Supports Component

Quick Finds

• Education, Health, and Mental Health Reports

Reports & Briefs

• About Short-term Outcome Indicators for School Use and the Need for an Expanded Policy Framework
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base

Resource Aids

• Standards for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component
• Standards & Quality Indicators for an Enabling or Learning Supports Component

Technical Aid Packets

• Evaluation and Accountability Related to Mental Health in Schools

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Training/Information Resource

• Data on the Plateau or Leveling Off Effect of Achievement Test Scores

Net Exchange

• Evaluations

Accountability
• Building Tests to Support Instruction and Accountability: A Guide for Policymakers
• Putting Theory to the Test: Systems of Educational Accountability Should Be Held Accountable
• Research Area: Education
• Stronger Accountability: Helping Families, Schools and Communities Understand and Improve Student Achievement
• Testing Plus Real Accountability with Real Results

Evaluations
• Building a Better Teenager: A Summary of What Works in Adolescent Development
• Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes: A Teaching and Facilitating Resource For Community Based Programs and Organizations
• Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Journal
• Evaluating Community-Based Initiatives
• Evaluation: Designs and Approaches
• Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health
• Gauging Success: Measurement and Evaluation
• Guide to Project Evaluation: A Participatory Approach
• National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit
• Program Evaluation Tools and Resources
• Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation
• User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations
• Youth Program Quality Assessment

Facts/Statistics
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Care for Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances: Is there Agreement Between Popular Outcome Measures?
• Making Sense of Data-Driven Decision Making in Education
• Reports from the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk
• Reports from the National Center for Education Statistics

General
• All Students Reaching the Top: Strategies for Closing Academic Achievement Gaps
• The Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program
• The Debate over National Testing
• Effects of School-Based Mental Health Programs on Mental Health Service Use by Adolescents at School in the Community
• High School Exit Exams: Pros and Cons
• Hiring an Evaluator
• Locally Tailored Accountability: Building on Your State System in the Era of NCLB
• Managing an Evaluator
• Multiple Stakeholder Agreement on Desired Outcomes for Adolescents' Mental Health Services
• Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
• School Achievement Reports Often Exclude the Disabled
• Should K-12 Student be Required to Complete State-Sanctioned Minimum Skills Tests?
• Student Health and Academic Achievement
• Surveying Clients about Outcomes
• Treatment Outcomes, Common Factors, and Continued Neglect of Mechanisms of Change
• W.K. Kellog Foundation Evaluation Toolkit

Related Agencies and Websites

• American Evaluation Association
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s Prevention Pathways: Online Courses
• Children, Youth & Families Education and Research Network: Evaluation
• Community Toolbox
• Edvantia
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
• Institute for Educational Leadership
• Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center Publications
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
• Online Evaluation Resource Library
• Principles for Measuring the Performance of Turnaround schools
• The U.S. Department of Education: Research and Statistics

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

• Developing and Evaluating Multi-Agency Partnerships: A practical Toolkit for Schools and Children's Centre Managers. Cheminais, R. (2009). Routledge Press.
• Evaluation of the National School Health Coordinator Leadership Institute. By Ottoson, JM., Streib, G., Thomas, JC., Rivera, M. & Stevenson, B. In Journal of School Health. 2004 May. 74(5), p. 170-176.
• High-Stakes Reform: The Politics of Educational Accountability (Public Management and Change). By McDermott, K.A. (2011). Georgetown University Press.
• Integrating Public Health Policy, Practice, Evaluation, Surveillance, and Research: The School Health Action Planning and Evaluation System. By Cameron, R., Manske, S., Brown, K.S., Jolin, M.A., Murnaghan, D., Lovato, MN and C. American Journal of Public Health. April 2007. 97(4), p. 648-654.

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