Students Training for Academic Readiness (STAR): Year 3

The evaluation of Texas’ state-level GEAR UP project, known as STAR, focuses on how schools implement the STAR program and how implementation strategies affect student outcomes. Year 3 results indicate that strong administrative support is essential to improving academic outcomes and achieving STAR’s goals.  Learn more…

The Texas Center for Educational Research is an independent, nonprofit educational research organization established to study the major issues affecting all levels and areas of Texas public education.

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Texas’ Rural Technology Pilot (R-Tech): Second Interim Report

The R-Tech evaluation examines the ways in which rural districts implement technology-based supplemental education programs as a means to support student learning.  Learn more...

 

 

 

 

 


Media and Other Publications

TCER served as a resource for a recent “Digital Domain” column in The New York Times. The article references TCER’s four-year study of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP) in its discussion of the effects of technology on student learning.

Results from TCER’s study of TIP have been published in the Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, as well as the Journal of Educational Computing Research. Search for Effects of Technology Immersion on Teachers' Growth in Technology Competency, Ideology, and Practices.

Access the TIP evaluation reports here.