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  • CRESST Program Helps Higher Learning Faculty

    May 16, 2022

    Peer-Assisted Reflections On Student Learning or PAROSL is a UCLA program in which pairs of faculty observe each other’s classes, discuss student learning, and implement an innovative teaching technique. A recent study, conducted at UCLA and published in Active Learning in Higher Education, shows how the program helps faculty: articulate learning objectives (LOs), design instruction […]

  • Faculty Supporting Faculty

    March 29, 2022

    Background CRESST research scientist Glory Tobiason recently published an article “Faculty Supporting Faculty… Supporting Students: Peer Observation and Responsive Teaching Innovations.” This article shows how an innovative approach to faculty professional development supports real changes in classroom practice. The approach is based on reflection and is centered around student learning rather than faculty teaching. Glory […]

  • Teens learning data science is in the news!

    March 6, 2018

    There is quite a buzz around the Introduction to Data Science (IDS) course, developed by the Mobilize Project. This past week, EdSource, KQED News, and the Daily Bruin have written about the course.  IDS was first piloted in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in 2014-2015. The EdSource article, “‘Big data’ classes a big […]

  • Magnet Schools in the Wiley Handbook of School Choice

    January 8, 2018

    Drs. Jia Wang and Joan Herman were recently published in The Wiley Handbook of School Choice, a comprehensive collection of the latest research findings on school choices in the US. Their chapter centered around magnet school programs in the United States: The mission and reach of magnet schools has evolved in the nearly 50 years […]

  • Is There a Magnet-School Effect?

    January 8, 2018

    Drs. Jia Wang and Joan Herman have recently published an article on the impact of magnet schools on student learning. Magnet schools are one of the largest sectors of choice schools in the United States. In this study, researchers explored the heterogeneity in magnet-school effects on student achievement by examining 24 magnet schools, funded under […]

  • Improving Educational Assessment

    January 8, 2018

    Director Li Cai and Research Scientist Mark Hansen have recently published a review on multivariate statistical methods. The article presents two case studies that illustrate how multivariate statistical modeling applies to the specific goal of improving educational assessment. The first case study involves the development of ELPA21. The second application concerns efforts to quantify student progress in […]

  • Is There a Magnet-School Effect? Joan Herman and Jia Wang Investigate

    May 22, 2017

    School choice has certainly been one of the hottest issues in education this year. CRESST senior researchers Joan Herman and Jia Wang, concerned with the gap of research on magnet schools, published a study in chapter 11 of the Wiley Handbook of School Choice to address this gap. Examining data from 24 magnet schools across […]

  • How Can We Support Student Success in College? Joan Herman Chairs New Report for National Academies

    April 20, 2017

    Educational attainment—the number of years a person spends in school—strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who previously led the world in completing postsecondary degrees now falling behind their global peers. Researchers and policy […]