Other Research Resources
Instructional Materials Adopted By the State Board of Education
Resources for High School (Important Science websites, Dec. 06)
Resources for Spanish Elementary Science (Sept. 06)
Resources for Elementary School (Important Science websites, Dec. 06)
Resources for Middle School (Important Science websites, Dec. 06)
Tools to Document Data
School-Wide Information System (SWIS): A web-based information system designed to help school personnel to use office referral data to design school-wide and individual student interventions.
What WorksClearinghouse: Collects, screens, and identifies studies of effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). What Works Clearinghouse has released several new intervention reports .
AIMS Web Progress Monitoring and Response to Intervention System: AIMSweb® is a scientifically based, formative assessment system that 'informs' the teaching and learning process by providing continuous student performance data and reporting improvement to parents, teachers, and administrators to enable evidence-based evaluation and data-driven instruction.
Scientifically Based Research: This site is devoted to sharing proven practices.
University of Texas Reading and Language Arts : The Center is committed to providing leadership to educators in effective reading instruction through its diversified research, technical assistance, and professional development projects. The Vaughn Gross Center is dedicated to improving reading instruction for all students, especially struggling readers, English language learners, and special education students.
Florida Center for Reading Research: The Florida Center for Reading Research Mission:
1. To conduct basic research on reading, reading growth, reading assessment, and reading instruction that will contribute to the scientific knowledge of reading and benefit students in Florida and throughout the nation.
2. To disseminate information about research-based practices related to literacy instruction and assessment for children in pre-school through 12th grade.
3. To conduct applied research that will have an immediate impact on policy and practices related to literacy instruction in Florida.
4. To provide technical assistance to Florida's schools and to the State Department of Education for the improvement of literacy outcomes in students from pre-K through 12th grade.
Intervention Central: offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. The site was created by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from Central New York.
Visit to check out newly posted academic and behavioral intervention strategies, download publications on effective teaching practices, and use tools that streamline classroom assessment and intervention.
Other Social Studies Information
National Geographic School Publishing: Literacy-focused social studies materials.
Rand M cNally: Classroom website.
Law-Focused Education: Great training and resources. Many of their programs, lessons, games, etc. focus on high need TAKS areas.
Annenberg Foundation: Teaching and learning resources
Other Reading Information
Reading Recovery: a research-based early intervention to reduce reading and writing failure for students in Year 1, their second year of school. What does the Reading Recovery Program Involve? Supporting research. Other information about Reading Recovery. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report.
Beginning Reading What Works Clearinghouse: Focuses on reading interventions for students in grades K–3 (or ages 5-8) that are intended to increase skills in alphabetics (phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letter recognition, print awareness and phonics), reading fluency, comprehension (vocabulary and reading comprehension), or general reading achievement. Interventions for this review are defined as programs, products, practices, or policies that are intended to increase skills in the areas named above.
Early Childhood Education: Focuses first on early childhood education interventions (curricula and practices) designed for use in center-based settings with 3- to 5-year-old children who are not yet in kindergarten or children who are in preschool, with a primary focus on cognitive and language competencies associated with school readiness (language, literacy, math, and cognition). Interventions and studies with a primary focus on socio-emotional development and approaches to learning may be addressed in a subsequent phase of the review. The review also includes a focus on center-based early childhood education interventions designed to improve the school readiness skills of preschool children with developmental delays or diagnosed disabilities. These may be inclusive interventions used with all children or targeted interventions designed specifically for children with developmental delays or diagnosed disabilities.
Dropout Prevention: Examines secondary school (middle school, junior high school, and high school) as well as community-based interventions designed to help students stay in school and/or complete school. These interventions can include services and activities such as incentives, counseling, monitoring, school restructuring, curriculum design, literacy support, or community-based services to mitigate factors impeding progress in school. They can operate in a public or private school setting, postsecondary institutions, or in a community facility such as a youth center or community-based organization.
Elementary School Math: This review focuses on curriculum-based math interventions that specify clear learning goals for students and assess student outcomes related to mathematic achievement.
English Language Learners: This review focuses on interventions designed to improve the English language literacy or academic achievement of elementary school students who are English language learners.
Middle School Math Curricula: Focuses on interventions based on a curriculum, which contain learning goals that spell out the mathematics that students should know and be able to do, instructional programs and materials that organize the mathematical content, and assessments. There are two WWC reviews for this topic. The first review focuses on middle school mathematics interventions and the second focuses on elementary school mathematics interventions.
Character Education: This review focuses on programs designed to increase student outcomes related to positive character development, prosocial behavior, and academic performance.
Intervention Reports
Vocabulary Improvement Program for English Language Learners and Their Classmates
An Ethics Curriculum for Children
Financial Incentives for Teen Parents to Stay in School
ALAS: Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success
Other pages associated with Scientifically Based Research:
SBR Commercially Available Programs Strategies and Interventions
Further Research Glossary of Terms SBR Presentations Other Resources