The Texas Education Agency awarded a multi-year, statewide evaluation contract to Arroyo Research Services to study the effects of the Texas Dropout Recovery Pilot Program. The evaluation project began in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2011. We are pleased to assist TEA in examining the effects of the TDRPP pay for performance model that directly ties project payments to demonstrated student academic progress and program completion.
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The Florida Evaluation Working Group, a project facilitated by Arroyo Research Services with initial funding from the Regions III & IV NCLB Regional Technical Assistance Center at the University of South Florida and continuing support from the East Coast Technical Assistance Center in Osceola, Florida, released the initial version of their Parent Involvement Toolkit on September 30, 2006. Designed to assist schools and districts in conducting evaluations of parent involvement policies under Section 1118 of No Child Left Behind, the toolkit contains guidance, policy details, and evaluation instruments including a parent survey, teacher survey and focus group protocols. |
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Arroyo Research Services was pleased to serve as a Special Advisor to the APQC K-12 Professional Development Benchmarking Study completed in January 2007. "You can't improve outcomes without improving processes," states APQC founder Dr. C. Jackson Grayson in the Education Week article about the study. Designed to help school districts compare and improve their methods of providing and supporting professional development, the pilot study brought together a diverse group of 18 districts including Poway, California, Montgomery County, Maryland, |
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