Area Policy Brief : Teacher & Mentor Relationships Supplemental Appendix

Area Policy Brief : Inclusive School Environment Supplemental Appendix

The first section contains web links for practitioner resources for generalized and specific interventions mentioned in the policy brief, as well as further information regarding evaluations of program efficacy. The intervention may have been evaluated by What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a division of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). These evaluations are indicated by the title “IES WW...

Identifying the Effect of Changing the Policy Threshold in Regression Discontinuity Models - Supplemental Appendix

This is a Supplemental online Appendix, containing additional theoretical and empirical results. 1 Supplemental Online Appendix Here we provide additional supplemental material. First is some details regarding extensions to higher order derivatives and larger than marginal changes in the threshold. Next is a second empirical application, showing application of our methods in a fuzzy design cont...

Improving Academic Mentoring Relationships and Environments

Origin of Mentoring1 The Greek poet Homer describes Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as having a loyal friend and advisor by the name of Mentor. While Odysseus was away fighting in the Trojan War, Mentor became a trusted teacher, coach, counselor, and protector of Odysseus’ son Telemachus. Thus, the word “mentor” used today derives from Homer and reflects a process where the mentor guides and protects...

Supplemental Appendix to “ Information Sharing in Union - Firm Relationships ”

The views of pre-service teachers on the school-based learning component of their mathematics teacher preparation programme

Teacher preparation is a highly contested area in England with a range of epistemological approaches potentially being promoted through the availability of a range of preparation routes. The dominant model of teacher preparation used by programmes led by university education departments is that of developing reflective practitioners. However, other models, including those coined as ‘craftworker...