Stuart Luppescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1692609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Luppescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Luppescu |
| SIGNATURE | LUPPESCU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the Validity of Practical Measures of Improvement Network Health and Development
Teacher Perspectives on Evaluation Reform
In the 2012–2013 school year, Chicago Public Schools unveiled its new teacher evaluation system in all of its almost 600 schools. This study draws on 32 interviews from a random sample of teachers and 2 years of survey data from more than 12,000 teachers per year to measure their perceptions of the clarity, practicality, and cost of the new system. Relationships between these measures and teacher characteristics and indicators of leadership and s…
Organizing Schools for Improvement
Alexander Elementary School and Hancock Elementary School began the 1990s as two of the worst schools in Chicago in terms of math and reading achievement. Only two miles apart, the schools are in bordering neighborhoods and appear similar in many ways. Both enrolled nearly 100% minority students from families considered low income.
Assessing School Academic Productivity
Measuring Achievement Gains in the Chicago Public Schools
Reading, Dictionaries, and Vocabulary Learning
This article focuses on the contribution to vocabulary learning of the use of bilingual dictionaries during reading by 293 Japanese university students studying English as a foreign language. The results of the study show that students who used a dictionary scored significantly better on a vocabulary test than students who did not use a dictionary. However, evidence appeared for differential item functioning: Some items were harder for the group …
Corrective Feedback in Native-nonnative Discourse
This article reports the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversations with their normative speaker friends. We also present other types of noncorrective conversational repair. From approximately 12.7 hours of taped conversations in social settings, we learned that native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback. In addition, t…
Organizing Schools for Improvement
Alexander Elementary School and Hancock Elementary School began the 1990s as two of the worst schools in Chicago in terms of math and reading achievement. Only two miles apart, the schools are in bordering neighborhoods and appear similar in many ways. Both enrolled nearly 100% minority students from families considered low income.
Teacher Perspectives on Evaluation Reform
In the 2012–2013 school year, Chicago Public Schools unveiled its new teacher evaluation system in all of its almost 600 schools. This study draws on 32 interviews from a random sample of teachers and 2 years of survey data from more than 12,000 teachers per year to measure their perceptions of the clarity, practicality, and cost of the new system. Relationships between these measures and teacher characteristics and indicators of leadership and s…
Corrective Feedback in Native-nonnative Discourse
This article reports the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversations with their normative speaker friends. We also present other types of noncorrective conversational repair. From approximately 12.7 hours of taped conversations in social settings, we learned that native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback. In addition, t…
Reading, Dictionaries, and Vocabulary Learning
This article focuses on the contribution to vocabulary learning of the use of bilingual dictionaries during reading by 293 Japanese university students studying English as a foreign language. The results of the study show that students who used a dictionary scored significantly better on a vocabulary test than students who did not use a dictionary. However, evidence appeared for differential item functioning: Some items were harder for the group …
Examining the Validity of Practical Measures of Improvement Network Health and Development
Measuring Achievement Gains in the Chicago Public Schools
Assessing School Academic Productivity
Corrective Feedback in Native-nonnative Discourse
This article reports the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversations with their normative speaker friends. We also present other types of noncorrective conversational repair. From approximately 12.7 hours of taped conversations in social settings, we learned that native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback. In addition, t…
Reading, Dictionaries, and Vocabulary Learning
This article focuses on the contribution to vocabulary learning of the use of bilingual dictionaries during reading by 293 Japanese university students studying English as a foreign language. The results of the study show that students who used a dictionary scored significantly better on a vocabulary test than students who did not use a dictionary. However, evidence appeared for differential item functioning: Some items were harder for the group …
Measuring Achievement Gains in the Chicago Public Schools
Assessing School Academic Productivity
Organizing Schools for Improvement
Alexander Elementary School and Hancock Elementary School began the 1990s as two of the worst schools in Chicago in terms of math and reading achievement. Only two miles apart, the schools are in bordering neighborhoods and appear similar in many ways. Both enrolled nearly 100% minority students from families considered low income.
Teacher Perspectives on Evaluation Reform
In the 2012–2013 school year, Chicago Public Schools unveiled its new teacher evaluation system in all of its almost 600 schools. This study draws on 32 interviews from a random sample of teachers and 2 years of survey data from more than 12,000 teachers per year to measure their perceptions of the clarity, practicality, and cost of the new system. Relationships between these measures and teacher characteristics and indicators of leadership and s…
Examining the Validity of Practical Measures of Improvement Network Health and Development
Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (3 works) · Academic achievement (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · School system (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)