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Linking Teacher Practice with Statewide Assessment of Education

In 1992, as part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), the Commonwealth of Kentucky began using a statewide assessment system to gauge the success of public schools. This system included tests designed to measure student achievement in seven content areas. Schools were given either rewards for improvements in their students' achievement or sanctions and assistance for declines. HumRRO received the contract to research the link between teachers' instructional practices and student achievement scores.
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Evaluating Kentucky School Strategies for Improving Teacher Quality

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Since implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990, Kentucky's teachers have been at the forefront of a high-stakes accountability system in which schools have been rewarded if they show significant improvements on statewide tests, or sanctioned if their scores fail to improve or decline. To improve their students' scores on the annual tests, teachers themselves have had to learn new techniques and use new tools.
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Program Evaluation, Human Resource Metrics and Return on Investment

Program Evaluation, Human Resource Metrics and Return on Investment

HumRRO's Strategic Human Capital Management (SHCM) staff have conducted evaluations for a variety of types of human resource programs. SHCM staff have worked with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) Human Capital Program to identify and analyze metrics for tracking and evaluating the program's performance on the Office of Management and Budget's Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART).

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