posted by:
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Howard Nadler
on March 4, 1998
at 2:26PM
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subject:
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Student Achievement
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As Co-PI of the SMART Process, an NSF funded LSC in NYC Districts Three and Five, we have been gathering "soft" evidence during the past three years to support the correlation between professional development and student outcomes. However, the pressures of high stakes reading tests and the overriding emphasis on literacy acquisition compels us not only to demonstrate that students acquire skills and concepts in science but there is tranferrence to reading and writing. We are setting up our parameters to test this hypothesis. Is anyone attempting to provide hard evidence to show the connection between PD and student outcomes? Another are of concern is assessing the effectiveness of our professional development. I know there are rubrics available from Mesa and the NSRC on teacher self assessment.
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