Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance (LESCP) in Title I Schools. Volume 1: Executive Summary. Final Report.

摘要

The Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance (LESCP) followed the progress of students in 71 high-poverty schools as they moved from third to fifth grade. The study was designed to investigate the impact on student achievement of specific classroom practices fostered by school-, district-, and state-level policies. This longitudinal analysis, conducted between 1996 and 1999 as part of the National Assessment of Title I, especially was intended to test the effects of changes in curriculum and instruction called for by advocates of standards-based reform. Many of these changes were being made in the wake of the 1994 Amendments to Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which called on states to adopt challenging academic standards and assessments aligned with these standards by 2001.