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Example Video Captures of Professional Practices (Shelby County Schools Policy)

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This policy defines how classroom and professional practice videos are created, used, and protected in Shelby County Schools to support educator growth while safeguarding privacy and confidentiality.

SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use

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The SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use is a resource guide for education agency analysts who collect and analyze data on student achievement. Completing the toolkit produces a set of basic, yet essential, human capital and college-going analyses that...

The Reliability of Classroom Observations by School Personnel

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This report presents an in-depth discussion of the technical methods, results, and implications of the MET project’s study of video-based classroom observations by school personnel. A non-technical summary of the analysis is in the policy and practitioner...

Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment

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Strategic Data Project Previews Findings on Delaware Teaching Force

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SDP released findings today for the Delaware Department of Education, which have policy and practice implications for Delaware public school staffing. Preliminary results from a two-year research engagement include: Newest teachers are more likely to be...

SDP Releases New Findings on LAUSD Graduation Rates and College Readiness

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Report Finds Significant Gap Between Levels of College Readiness and Graduation Rates for Los Angeles Students Los Angeles, CA. (April 8, 2013) – Findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at the Center for Education...

SDP Announces Selection of 20 New Partners for Fellowship Program

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State Education Agencies, School Districts, and Nonprofits Will Join Effort to Transform Their Use of Data in Education Cambridge, MA. (May 6, 2013) – Today, the Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard...

SDP Announces New Executive Director

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Nicholas Morgan will be the new executive director of the Strategic Data Project (SDP) beginning August 1. He will bring a decade’s experience working in the education sector to strengthen management practices. Nick was most recently a managing director...

Presumed Averageness: The Mis-Application of Classical Hypothesis Testing in Education

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CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses the importance of statistical significance in the following Brookings Institution paper. Imagine yourself having had a heart attack. An ambulance arrives to transport you to a hospital emergency room. Your...

Climate Change and Value-Added: New Evidence Requires New Thinking

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CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses the use of value-added estimates for teacher evaluations in the Brookings Institution paper. Anyone participating in the education policy debate for five years or more probably staked out their position on the...