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It frames effectiveness as a core element of accountability and reform planning, linking leadership decisions to classroom practices and the selection of primary learning materials. The discussion highlights adaptive testing as a promising approach for individualized instruction, while noting methodological challenges such as control-group selection, fidelity maintenance, slow and costly implementation, and limited real-world relevance.","Educational Research on Program Effectiveness  \nDr. Eric J. Smith  \nI appreciate the opportunity to address this committee about a topic I find to be extraordinarily important to our nation’s academic progress; research on the tools and strategies that we give our teachers to use in the classroom. I am speaking to you not as a researcher but as a consumer of research on educational strategies, tools and practices. In my career I have had the honor of serving 7 years as a classroom teacher, 8 years as a high school administrator, 17 years as a superintendent and 4 years as a state commissioner of education. Throughout my career, in each of these positions, I have been constantly searching for tools, strategies and practices that had some independent evidence that if properly used would result in positive outcomes for children. Said another way, I have always been searching for those tools and techniques that are unique, that can be used in a single classroom or used on a large scale and will generally result in positive achievement gains for children. To be blunt it has been a frustrating search. There are numerous approaches to choose from and as a consumer you will always be told that educational practices and tools are aligned to your standards, are research based and you will always be shown data that is intended to demonstrate that an instructional approach is extremely successful in raising achievement levels. Unfortunately there is still far too little independent research or information on the impact of various approaches to student learning.  \nMy interest is in trying to find better information on the effectiveness of educational tools and approaches to help teachers, administrators and governing bodies to make more informed strategic decisions on how to improve student achievement. The question of effectiveness and impact is central to discussions of accountability, and should be part of the foundation in the development of reform strategies. School reform and accountability have as a premise that leadership can shape and control for academic outcomes by thoughtful strategic planning and execution. There is also an implicit assumption that the needs of individual children can be addressed through the careful planning of practicesand strategies as well. Common variables include conditions of time, resources and quality instruction using high quality materials. The primary classroom materials chosen and given to the teacher to deliver the level of instruction required is an essential component. An example of connecting instructional strategy to the needs of individual students is found in the emerging development of adaptive testing. Adaptive testing is showing great promise in helping educators to be much more student centric in the delivery of instruction and in meeting the individual needs of students. Reform strategies such as these should be built around the type of work that is to be done in the classroom. Such strategies should be framed by the selection of classroom practices and selection of primary and supporting classroom materials. Those that make the decisions about classroom instructional practices and materials should be held accountable for their decisions. I have been in classrooms where a school or district has selected an instructional strategy with supportive tools and you will see teachers who have so little confidence in the approach, that they secretively have hoards of other materials to do the job. The quality of instructional tools and approaches matters to teachers and matters to  \nstudents. Some help, some don’t offer much and it can be assumed that some may do harm.  \nSo my interest in the question of what classroom practices and tools are effective resulted in me being selected to chair the Title 1 Independent Review Panel. It was an extraordinary experience. My colleagues on the panel were both brilliant and passionate about the issue of instructional improvement. 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