MAS recommends this page -- especially the peer review and student self-assessment resources -- for helping students learn more about the re-writing process.
The Innovating Pedagogy blog is a forum for Open University to distribute their Innovating Pedagogy 2012 report (click on report for a PDF download) and also for each of the 10 innovations to be described and commented on by the larger community.
by Ronald H. Heck and Philip Hallinger in American Educational Research Journal, V. 46, No. 3 (2009) pp. 659-689. Abstract: One of a relative few longitudinal studies looking at effects of distributed leadership on school improvement and student achievement (elementary school). Findings favor distributed leadership both for "building the academic capacity of schools" and improving achievement. Available directly from publisher site (this page) or through your library's document delivery service. 2009
Current research being conducted at the Memory Lab includes studies that pertain to education, including how frequent quizzes might improve students' retention of new materials.
By Debra Viadero in Inside School Research, an Education Week blog, posted June 10 2009. Viadero describes the poster sessions at the annual federal Institute of Education Sciences, including a poster looking at the effectiveness of frequent quizzes for improving retention among 8th grade science students. For updated information on the study, follow the roediger tag.
CCRC brief #40, published by Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, Feb 2009. The brief, based on a longer paper, finds that developmental education is not particularly effective, and recommends for broad reforms better assessment, tracking students through early college years, and blurring the line between "developmental" and "college-level" students. The full paper is available as a PDF from this page.
LASSI is an inventory of learning and study strategies, and measures students' strengths and weaknesses in terms of strategic learning. Developed by Claire E. Weinstein, Ann C. Schulte, and David R. Palmer at the University of Texas, Austin.
College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from The College Board