Jonathan Supovitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6207005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Supovitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Supovitz |
| SIGNATURE | SUPOVITZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5626-8095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pathways to Performance: The Experimental Impacts of Learning Trajectory-Oriented Formative Assessment in Mathematics
Purpose: A growing trend in instructional improvement efforts is the use of formative assessment informed by research-based developmental trajectories of how students gain deeper understanding of subject matter content over time. This article reports the findings of a large-scale experimental study of an innovative mathematics professional development program called the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) in a large urban school district that is ba…
The impact of a formal teacher leadership program on student performance
Formal teacher leader programs that develop, position, and reward teachers to work with peers to improve instruction are a growing reform effort in the United States, yet there are few published studies of their efficacy. In this paper, we examine the impacts of one district’s teacher leadership program on students’ annual state test performance. The program placed full-time instructional coaches and partly released English language arts (ELA) an…
The Role of Inequity in School Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was an unprecedented crisis for educators across the world. In the United States, on or about March 13 of that year, virtually every school across the nation shuttered its doors in the face of the microbial onslaught. Never before had a singular event caused the entire education system to shift its core methods of functioning. How did schools respond to this extraordinary stress test? How did principa…
Using Integrative Implementation Theory to Understand New Jersey's 2015 Opt-Out Movement
Background/Context In the spring of 2015, about 135,000 New Jersey students—almost 20% of the test-eligible children—did not take the state's test. Opposition of this magnitude directly contradicted a central stipulation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which required states to test 95% of their eligible students to receive federal education funding. This article examines what happened in New Jersey in 2015 to produce such …
The Social Psychology of Homophily: The Collective Sentiments of Education Advocacy Groups
Background/Context As a major area of civic decision making, public education is a central arena for advocacy groups seeking to influence policy debates. An emerging body of research examines advocates’ use of social media. While debates about policy can be thought of as a clash of large ideas contained within frames, cognitive linguists note that framing strategies are activated by the particular words that advocates choose to convey their posit…
The Linking Study: An Experiment to Strengthen Teachers’ Engagement with Data on Teaching and Learning
In a randomized controlled trial of a teacher data-use intervention, the Linking Study tested the impacts of a cyclical and collaborative process that linked teachers’ data on instructional practice with data on their students’ learning. This article describes the theory of the intervention and its roots in the literature as a backdrop for an intervention with 64 teachers in 27 professional learning communities and their students. The researchers…
How Principals and Peers Influence Teaching and Learning
This paper examines the effects of principal leadership and peer teacher influence on teachers’ instructional practice and student learning. Using teacher survey and student achievement data from a mid-sized urban southeastern school district in the United States in 2006-2007, the study employs multilevel structural equation modeling to examine the structural relationships between student learning and theorized dimensions of principal leadership,…
Systemic Education Evaluation: Evaluating the Impact of Systemwide Reform in Education
Recent reforms in K-12 education have increasingly emphasized the educational system as the unit of change. The theory underlying systemic or system wide educational reform is that powerful improvements in teaching and learning can come from developing coherence and alignment across the complex and different elements and components of an educational system. The growth of systemic reform efforts has led to a rise in attempts to systemically evalua…
Surveying through cyberspace
Surveying Through Cyberspace
This article describes an evaluator’s experience constructing a World Wide Web site to collect evaluation data. Data collection via the Web presents a series of technical and design challenges. Eight lessons surrounding Web site development, including site design, data management, data presentation, and computer platform considerations are discussed. The article concludes that Web-based data collection has several possible advantages over paper-a…
Systemic Education Evaluation: Evaluating the Impact of Systemwide Reform in Education
Recent reforms in K-12 education have increasingly emphasized the educational system as the unit of change. The theory underlying systemic or system wide educational reform is that powerful improvements in teaching and learning can come from developing coherence and alignment across the complex and different elements and components of an educational system. The growth of systemic reform efforts has led to a rise in attempts to systemically evalua…
The Role of Inequity in School Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was an unprecedented crisis for educators across the world. In the United States, on or about March 13 of that year, virtually every school across the nation shuttered its doors in the face of the microbial onslaught. Never before had a singular event caused the entire education system to shift its core methods of functioning. How did schools respond to this extraordinary stress test? How did principa…
The Linking Study: An Experiment to Strengthen Teachers’ Engagement with Data on Teaching and Learning
In a randomized controlled trial of a teacher data-use intervention, the Linking Study tested the impacts of a cyclical and collaborative process that linked teachers’ data on instructional practice with data on their students’ learning. This article describes the theory of the intervention and its roots in the literature as a backdrop for an intervention with 64 teachers in 27 professional learning communities and their students. The researchers…
Surveying through cyberspace
Surveying Through Cyberspace
This article describes an evaluator’s experience constructing a World Wide Web site to collect evaluation data. Data collection via the Web presents a series of technical and design challenges. Eight lessons surrounding Web site development, including site design, data management, data presentation, and computer platform considerations are discussed. The article concludes that Web-based data collection has several possible advantages over paper-a…
Systemic Education Evaluation: Evaluating the Impact of Systemwide Reform in Education
Recent reforms in K-12 education have increasingly emphasized the educational system as the unit of change. The theory underlying systemic or system wide educational reform is that powerful improvements in teaching and learning can come from developing coherence and alignment across the complex and different elements and components of an educational system. The growth of systemic reform efforts has led to a rise in attempts to systemically evalua…
How Principals and Peers Influence Teaching and Learning
This paper examines the effects of principal leadership and peer teacher influence on teachers’ instructional practice and student learning. Using teacher survey and student achievement data from a mid-sized urban southeastern school district in the United States in 2006-2007, the study employs multilevel structural equation modeling to examine the structural relationships between student learning and theorized dimensions of principal leadership,…
The Linking Study: An Experiment to Strengthen Teachers’ Engagement with Data on Teaching and Learning
In a randomized controlled trial of a teacher data-use intervention, the Linking Study tested the impacts of a cyclical and collaborative process that linked teachers’ data on instructional practice with data on their students’ learning. This article describes the theory of the intervention and its roots in the literature as a backdrop for an intervention with 64 teachers in 27 professional learning communities and their students. The researchers…
The Social Psychology of Homophily: The Collective Sentiments of Education Advocacy Groups
Background/Context As a major area of civic decision making, public education is a central arena for advocacy groups seeking to influence policy debates. An emerging body of research examines advocates’ use of social media. While debates about policy can be thought of as a clash of large ideas contained within frames, cognitive linguists note that framing strategies are activated by the particular words that advocates choose to convey their posit…
Using Integrative Implementation Theory to Understand New Jersey's 2015 Opt-Out Movement
Background/Context In the spring of 2015, about 135,000 New Jersey students—almost 20% of the test-eligible children—did not take the state's test. Opposition of this magnitude directly contradicted a central stipulation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which required states to test 95% of their eligible students to receive federal education funding. This article examines what happened in New Jersey in 2015 to produce such …
The Role of Inequity in School Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was an unprecedented crisis for educators across the world. In the United States, on or about March 13 of that year, virtually every school across the nation shuttered its doors in the face of the microbial onslaught. Never before had a singular event caused the entire education system to shift its core methods of functioning. How did schools respond to this extraordinary stress test? How did principa…
The impact of a formal teacher leadership program on student performance
Formal teacher leader programs that develop, position, and reward teachers to work with peers to improve instruction are a growing reform effort in the United States, yet there are few published studies of their efficacy. In this paper, we examine the impacts of one district’s teacher leadership program on students’ annual state test performance. The program placed full-time instructional coaches and partly released English language arts (ELA) an…
Pathways to Performance: The Experimental Impacts of Learning Trajectory-Oriented Formative Assessment in Mathematics
Purpose: A growing trend in instructional improvement efforts is the use of formative assessment informed by research-based developmental trajectories of how students gain deeper understanding of subject matter content over time. This article reports the findings of a large-scale experimental study of an innovative mathematics professional development program called the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) in a large urban school district that is ba…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (4 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cyberspace (2 works)