Publications
Educators - How are you managing multiple initiatives and shifting policies?
SCOPE researcher looks at approaches to strengthening educator leadership.
International Teacher Policy Study - Country Briefs
Five policy briefs summarize the identified strategy components used in high-performing countries to ensure all students have high-quality professional teachers.
International Teacher Policy Study - Policy Briefs
Five policy briefs summarize the identified strategy components used in high-performing countries to ensure all students have high-quality professional teachers.
Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World
An international comparative study of teacher and teaching quality in the world’s top-performing education systems.
How Do States Integrate Performance Assessments Into Their Systems of Assessment?
The strategies that 12 states used to integrate performance assessment into state systems of assessment.
The Internal Coherence Framework: Creating the Conditions for Continuous Improvement in Schools
This book presents research-based practices for assessing and developing conditions that support student and adult learning in schools.
Joint Inquiry: Teachers’ Collective Learning About the Common Core in High-Poverty Urban Schools
This article examines the nature of teachers’ collaborative work around common core standards and the conditions that support this work.
Privatization or Public Investment in Education?
Is the education sector better served by a public investment approach than by a market-based, competition approach?
Six Countries. Two Educational Strategies. One Consistent Conclusion.
"Six Countries. Two Educational Strategies. One Consistent Conclusion” is an infographic from SCOPE and the Schott Foundation. It graphically summarizes the differences in approaches and outcomes between privatization and public investment in education. The infographic is based on research found in the book, Global Education Reform.
Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System
"Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System" is an infographic from SCOPE and the Schott Foundation that graphically summarizes the equity impact on students and schools of New Orleans becoming a predominantly charter district after Hurricane Katrina.
Teacher Learning and Leadership, Of, By, and For Teachers
A unique partnership between a government education agency and a teachers’ union has positive outcomes for education reform.
Student Engagement in Assessments: What Students and Teachers Find Engaging
Guidance for educators, assessment developers, and policymakers on increasing student engagement in performance-based assessments.
Building Teacher and School Capacity to Teach to Ambitious Standards in High-Poverty Schools
Details of a district professional development initiative designed to support teachers in meeting the goals of Common Core State Standards.
Turning Around Schools: The National Board Certification Process as a School Improvement Strategy
How the National Board certification process can be used as a school improvement strategy and support enriched teaching.
Task Development Guidelines with Engagement Considerations for Item Writers
This tool provides specific guidelines for incorporating Engagement Dimensions and the required Task Features into performance tasks to support students’ ability to create meaning and cognitively invest in the task. Engaging tasks generally incorporate at lease three Engagement Dimensions and must include both Task Features: Clear Purpose and Clear Expectations
Engagement Toolkit for Performance Task Writers, Reviewers, and Evaluators
This three-part toolkit is designed to be an aid for creating performance tasks that are engaging to all students of diverse backgrounds.
Review Tool with Engagement Considerations for Item Reviewers/Evaluators
The review tool allows reviewers and evaluators to review tasks to ensure that they are created with engagement in mind for all students. In addition to scoring Engagement Dimensions and Task Features, the tool provides guidelines for evaluation and prompts for suggested modifications
Student Engagement: A Framework for On-demand Performance Assessment Tasks
Engaging students in meaningful applications of their knowledge is a key aspect of both addressing the standards and providing greater access. Not only do the standards emphasize the importance of meaningful engagement in real-world tasks, but evidence shows that engagement is strongly related to student performance on assessment tasks, especially for students who have been typically less advantaged in school settings.
Dimensions of Engagement: Definitions and Ways to Incorporate
This tool defines seven engagement dimensions such as collaboration and self-assessment. It provides suggestions and examples for incorporating each dimension into assessment tasks. For each dimension, the tool provides questions to consider and appended performance tasks as examples
Relating Aspects of Motivation to Facets of Mathematical Competence Varying in Cognitive Demand
Research on student motivation and performance on mathematical tasks relevant to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
