[PDF] Evaluating Transition To School Programs eBook

Author : Sue Dockett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003055112

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Transition to school represents a time of great change for all involved. Many transition to school programs have been developed to support positive transitions to school. While these programs have involved complex planning and implementation, often they have not been evaluated in rigorous or systematic ways. This book brings together Australian and international perspectives on research and practice to explore approaches to evaluating transition to school programs. For children, school is quite different from anything else they have experienced. For families and educators, there are considerable changes as they interact with new people and take on new roles. Developing effective transition to school programs is a key policy initiative around the world, based on recognition of the importance of a positive start to school and the impact of this for future school engagement and outcomes. Throughout the chapters of this book, authors from Australia, Germany, Sweden, Ireland and Jamaica share examples of evaluation practice, with the aim of encouraging educators to reflect on their own contexts and adopt evaluation practices that are relevant and appropriate for them. The book brings together the fields of evaluation research and transition to school. A wide range of examples and figures is used to relate research and practice and to illustrate possible applications of evaluation strategies. Evaluating Transition to School Programs highlights the importance of multiple perspectives of the transition to school and offers suggestions about how the perspectives of children, families, educators and community members might be included and analysed in evaluation strategies. Other themes throughout the book include the importance of collaboration, respectful and trusting relationships, practitioner-driven inquiry, strengths-based approaches and developing programs that are responsive to context. This book is written for educators and leaders in early years and primary school settings, and will also be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in the field.

Author : Sue Dockett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000464555

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Transition to school represents a time of great change for all involved. Many transition to school programs have been developed to support positive transitions to school. While these programs have involved complex planning and implementation, often they have not been evaluated in rigorous or systematic ways. This book brings together Australian and international perspectives on research and practice to explore approaches to evaluating transition to school programs. For children, school is quite different from anything else they have experienced. For families and educators, there are considerable changes as they interact with new people and take on new roles. Developing effective transition to school programs is a key policy initiative around the world, based on recognition of the importance of a positive start to school and the impact of this for future school engagement and outcomes. Throughout the chapters of this book, authors from Australia, Germany, Sweden, Ireland and Jamaica share examples of evaluation practice, with the aim of encouraging educators to reflect on their own contexts and adopt evaluation practices that are relevant and appropriate for them. The book brings together the fields of evaluation research and transition to school. A wide range of examples and figures is used to relate research and practice and to illustrate possible applications of evaluation strategies. Evaluating Transition to School Programs highlights the importance of multiple perspectives of the transition to school and offers suggestions about how the perspectives of children, families, educators and community members might be included and analysed in evaluation strategies. Other themes throughout the book include the importance of collaboration, respectful and trusting relationships, practitioner-driven inquiry, strengths-based approaches and developing programs that are responsive to context. This book is written for educators and leaders in early years and primary school settings, and will also be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in the field.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1997-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 030917466X

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The dramatic shift in the American labor market away from manufacturing and the growing gap in earnings between high school and college graduates have contributed to a sense of alarm about the capacity of the nation's schools to supply adequately skilled graduates to the work force. The role that schools can or should play in preparing people to enter the world of work is hotly debated. In an effort to nurture the important and ongoing national dialogue on these issues, the Board on Testing and Assessment asked researchers and policymakers to engage in an interdisciplinary review and discussion of available data and implications for assessment policy. Transitions in Work and Learning considers the role of assessment in facilitating improved labor market transitions and life-long learning of American workers. It addresses the apparent mismatch between skill requirements of high-performance workplaces and skills acquired by students in school, the validity of existing assessment technologies to determine skills and competencies of persons entering various occupations, and ethical and legal issues in the implementation of new testing and certification programs. The book also examines the role of assessment in determining needed skills; developing ongoing education and training; and providing information to employers, prospective workers, and schools.

Author : Sue Dockett
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education, Primary
ISBN : 9781876138240

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Emphasises the importance of relationships and of people working together, and highlights the importance of a positive start to school, and discusses readiness and age. It indroduces the Guidelines for Effective Transition to School Programmes that were developed with the aid of researchers at the University of Western Sydney.

Author : Karyn Lyndsey Herring
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : School-to-work transition
ISBN :

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Secondary transition support is an important part of the IEP requirements for high school exceptional children. Designed to help guide students toward their postschool goals, transition support should not only help identify goals but also help prepare them by teaching skills, building relationships, and imparting knowledge of the community they will join after graduation. The researcher completed a program evaluation for the FAST secondary transition support that was put into place in a large school district in North Carolina during the 2016-2017 school year to provide additional support to at-risk exceptional children on the Future Ready Course of Study graduation track. In the fall 2016 semester, the school district implemented a secondary transition support program for repeating and incoming high school freshmen classified as at-risk in five target high schools. The schools received support from the district transition team in the form of professional development, altered school schedules for participating students, student lessons provided by district transition leaders, career-readiness software utilized by participating students during transition preparation time, and a commitment to transitional support in the district for the students until they graduate. The program, titled “FAST,” entered its second year of implementation in the 2017-2018 school year, and the first cohort of students received their second year of services. This study examined the implementation of the program in its initial phases throughout the first two years of the program. This study found FAST had begun to address specific transition needs of students in the district, but still had transition components that needed further development. The study highlighted the strength of staff support but also showed a need for development of program structure. The study also compared the implemented best practices for both new program implementation and secondary transition practices to give feedback to stakeholders on successes and potential drawbacks of the program’s implementation. Using the work of Paula Kohler and other experts in the field, the researcher found that FAST had begun to address several key components of secondary transition such as Student Development and Vocational Education. The study also pointed to program gaps in areas such as Interagency Collaboration and Family Engagement. Lack of sufficient data lead to an unclear picture of FAST functioning at each site, but the researcher did evaluate overall program trends. FAST proved to have some merit for meeting the needs of at-risk secondary Exceptional Children on the Future Ready Course of Study.

Author : Robert C. Pianta
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Today's kindergarten is the onset of formal schooling for children--the first time families, schools, teachers, and communities come together to form an educational partnership. In this thought-provoking, issues-focused book, the experts explore the research on early schooling and give you a starting point with which to reexamine your beliefs, policies, and practices regarding the first years of school. Scholars, researchers, and other professionals will discover why early school transitions need to be improved and how these critical transitions affect children's future educational success. You'll learn about readiness assessment entrance ages grade retention classroom structure family-school-community partnerships cultural diversity children with disabilities children in poverty This book is part of a series edited by Donald B. Bailey, Jr., Ph.D., and developed in conjunction with the National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL). Visit NCEDL's website for information on the center's research, upcoming meetings, and free online publications..

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Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0398085714

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The need for transition services for students with exceptionalities is apparent and critical for their success after high school. It is essential for school professionals, parents, and students to work collaboratively and consultively to determine each student's future goals and develop an effective plan to meet those goals successively. This book, therefore, focuses on all aspects of that transition planning from school to postschool levels. The text provides the reader with a foundation of transition services and a historical overview of models and practices and offers a critical look at tra.