Explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. This book includes reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, and guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a range of settings.
This book contains a series of highly readable articles investigating how to design and conduct studies in varied educational settings, and how to implement a specific intervention once it has proven successful. Recommended.
Barbara Schneider, Ph.D. is a John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor at Michigan State University and principal investigator of the Data Research and Development Center at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Sarah-Kathryn McDonald is executive director of the Data Research and Development Center and a research scientist at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.