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Item An Analysis of Student Reading as Measured on the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR)(Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2007-06) Baca, Jo-Ann M.; Shepperson, Barbara A.; Janerette, DarielAs part of the reporting of Delaware’s State Improvement Grant (DelaSIG), the Delaware Education Research and Development Center (R & D Center) completed a study on the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR) scores of students whose teachers attended either one or both Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) professional development program(s) designed to help focus teacher instruction of struggling readers in Grades 4 through 12, Success for Secondary Struggling Readers (SSSR), and/or Implementing Multiple Practices for Activating Comprehension in Teaching (IMPACT). Each of these programs includes 30 hours of training in reading content knowledge, pedagogy, and application. An additional 60 hours of implementation are necessary to meet the requirements of each “cluster”, a 90-hour professional development program provided by the DDOE.Item AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT READING AS MEASURED ON THE DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT OF READING (DAR)(Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2006-06-13T18:37:12Z) Baca, Jo-Ann M.; Shepperson, Barbara A.As part of the reporting of Delaware’s State Improvement Grant (DelaSIG), the Delaware Education Research and Development Center (R & D Center) completed a study on the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading (DAR) scores of students whose teachers attended a professional development program designed to help focus teacher instruction of struggling readers in Grades 4 through 12. IMPACT, the acronym for Implementing Multiple Practices for Activating Comprehension in Teaching, is a 30 hour training component of the professional development program provided by the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE).This paper reports the findings of the fall and spring assessments of the DAR and discusses their results and implications. Program developers may find the perceptions of the IMPACT survey respondents informative; their perceptions regarding the influence of the IMPACT training on their classroom instruction and on their students’ reading provide insight into the context of the findingsItem Evaluation of Delaware's State Improvement Grant: Delaware Inclusive Schools' Study(Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2007-08) Shepperson, Barbara A.; Baca, Jo-Ann M.The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) contracted with the University of Delaware’s Education Research and Development Center (R & D Center) to help evaluate the Delaware State Improvement Grant’s Inclusive Schools’ Initiative (ISI). As part of this evaluation effort, an Inclusive Schools’ (IS) document review was completed for the first time in 2007. In addition, numerous faculty members from two IS schools were interviewed in order to collect their perceptions of the current state of inclusive efforts in their school. This baseline data provides a view of the current status of inclusive efforts within the Delaware inclusive schools.