Tennesee Path to College: A Bridging Research to Practice Event Slide Deck

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Bridging Research to Practice:

Helping Students Navigatethe Path to College

In Partnership with the Collaborative forTeaching and Learning (CTL)

November 14, 2012


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Quick Write:

Who or what was the driving force thatmost contributed to your collegereadiness?

What specifically did that contribution looklike?

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What is an IES Practice Guide?

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Through the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Education

Sciences (IES) publishes a series of Practice Guides developed by a panelof education experts

The Practice Guides serve the following purposes:

Provide practical and actionable recommendations for dealing with a variety ofissues and initiatives in education

Provide advice to educators about ways to deal with frequently encountered

problems in education Bring the best available evidence and expertise to bear on systemic

educational challenges that cannot be addressed by any single approach

Practice Guides also have a list of recommendations that are:

Specific and Actionable educators can implement in their classrooms andschools;

Coherent not just a laundry list of ideas; recommendations fit together in asystem of initiatives that reinforce each other;

Evidence-based connected to the quality of the evidence supporting them


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What can a Practice Guide be used for?

Organize discussions about improvingeducation

Plan and implement solutions to problems

Develop practice and policy alternatives

Implementation Strategies to carry out recommendations

Examples to put recommendations in context

Common problems teachers and administrators mayencounter, and approached for managing them

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Levels of Evidence

Organize discussions about improving education

How to interpret a positive association between a recommendedintervention and a good educational outcome?

Criteria for categorizing evidence

Causality (internal validity)

Do results support the conclusion that an intervention causes anoutcome?

Problems: reverse/joint causality, unobserved factors

Generality (external validity)

Can results be generalized to other groups?

Problems: non-representative samples, self-selection

Key issue develop comparison groups that are as similar as possible tothe group getting the intervention

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Levels of Evidence

Organize discussions about improving education

How to interpret a positive association between a recommendedintervention and a good educational outcome?

Criteria for categorizing evidence

Causality (internal validity)

Do results support the conclusion that an intervention causes anoutcome?

Problems: reverse/joint causality, unobserved factors

Generality (external validity)

Can results be generalized to other groups?

Problems: non-representative samples, self-selection

Key issue develop comparison groups that are as similar as possible tothe group getting the intervention

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Available IES Practice Guide Topics

Developing Effective Fractions Instruction for K-8

Improving Reading Comprehension in K-3 Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision

Making

Helping Students Navigate the Path to College: What High SchoolsCan Do

Structuring Out-of-School Time to Improve Academic Achievement

Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response toIntervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools

Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom

http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/publications/practiceguides/

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REL Appalachia Resources

Online Resources:

Website: www.RELAppalchia.org

Ask A REL: http://www.relappalachia.org/helpful-resources/ask-a-rel

IES REL Website: www.ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs

Quarterly newsletter: To receive the REL newsletter, email:[email protected] (Subject: Subscribe)

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Frames your thinking

Specificexamples


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Q&A with Dr. NealFinkelstein

http://dww.ed.gov/Increasing-Postsecondary-Access/topic/?T_ID=32
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Professional Reading

Helping Students Navigate thePath to College: What HighSchools Can Do

Overview (page 5)

Scope of the Practice Guide(pages 7-10)

Practice Guide Checklist (page 11)

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Text Coding

As you read, look for and mark:

Ideas that frame your thinking about ensuring collegereadiness

Specific examples of practices you could implement

= Connections to efforts you currently have in place

Be prepared to share your thinking with peers

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Give One, Get One

Find a partner who is new toyou

Share a connection you madein the reading that relates to acurrent college readiness effortin your building or district.Explain the specifics of thateffort.

Find another partner

Your goal is to get 3 new ideasto strengthen college-readinesswork in your building.

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Table Talk

In school/districtteams, sharepromisingpractices learnedfrom yourconversation with

others.

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Self Assess/Share/Compare

Comprehensive Planning Template, Part I

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View from the FieldDr. Neil Finkelstein, Dr. Sharon

Roberts, Dr. Gary Nixon

Moderator: Dr. Richard Rhoda

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Planning

Comprehensive PlanningTemplate, Part II

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http://animoto.com/play/2hIDa5xIS3CvuT8uvNkPYg

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Y3W: Synthesis

What THREE words will you take from todaythat will significantly impact college

readiness efforts in your school or district?

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Next Steps & Additional Resources

Stakeholder Feedback Survey

Practice Guide

http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/practiceguide.aspx?sid=11

Doing What Works http://dww.ed.gov/Increasing-Postsecondary-

Access/topic/?T_ID=32

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Tennesee Path to College: A Bridging Research to Practice Event Slide Deck