Making the Case: Compelling Data
This growing library features data points describing the impacts and outcomes of student-centered and competency-based teaching and learning. The data are sourced from research studies, evaluation reports and journal articles, as well as evidence collected directly by classroom, school, district and state leaders.
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Students Report that Tech Increases Self-Directed Learning
In national surveys, students report that technology helps them direct their own learning, with over half indicating tech helps them learn at their own pace and control their own learning process.
Perception of Technology as a Tool for Personalization Has Grown
In national surveys, the number of teachers that view technology as a tool to personalize learning has increased quickly, with 62% reporting that tech allows them to better differentiate instruction in 2018 versus just 26% in 2014.
Post-Pandemic Teachers Want More Flexible Learning Environments
In a 2021 survey, more than half of teachers want changes in the traditional learning model with 61% supporting more hands-on learning, 55% more flexible learning environments and 57% smaller class-sizes.
Teachers Across Grade-Levels and Subjects Value Project-Based Learning
Feedback from over 11,000 teachers nationwide indicates 77% feel project-based learning would benefit their students. This high valuation is consistent across grade-levels taught as well as subjects, from science to history.
Standardized Test Scores Improve After PD on Project-Based Learning
At Lindsay Unified School District, students scored higher on the Diagnostic Reading Assessments® (DRA), Scholastic Reading Inventory® (SRI), and California’s Smarter Balanced Assessment system (SBAC) after teachers received PD on project-based learning.
Project-Based Learning Promises Gains in Social Studies and Science
Looking at 20 studies on project-based learning, researchers found a positive effect on student learning in Social Studies and Science, and to a smaller degree, math and literacy.
Student Goal-Setting Shows Promising Evidence
This research brief examines the research base for goal-setting, including its role in self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation. It indicates promising evidence (as defined by the US Department of Education) of impact on academic outcomes and deeper learning.
Comprehensive Student Advising Shows Promising Evidence
This research brief examines the research base for comprehensive student advising, looking at the ways it fosters relationships, social capital and student agency. It concludes there is promising evidence of impact (as defined by the US Department of Education).
Help-Seeking Behaviors Increase with Student-Centered Teaching Practices
Teachers in focus groups reported that with the introduction of student-centered practices, students appeared to improve at seeking support. They noted these help-seeking behaviors were in alignment with the development of greater agency.
Socio-Economic Status Impacts Students’ Reports of Agency
Students with higher levels of socio-economic status reported higher levels of self-efficacy, perseverance of effort, mastery orientation, self-regulated learning, and future orientation relative to peers from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
Metacognitive Self-Regulation Grows with Student-Centered Practices
In four schools, the implementation of specific student-centered teacher practices led to a significant increase in metacognitive self-regulation throughout the school year. Other student-level measures of agency did not change significantly or decrease.
Station Rotation Models Improve Access to Student Data
In 4-8th grade classrooms at five sites, teachers who used station rotation reported more availability of data to drive decision-making and higher levels of differentiated instruction when compared to non-station rotation teachers at the same sites.
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