MERC Publications
Submissions from 2007
Submissions from 2006
Instructional Strategies to Increase Motivation, Close the Achievement Gap, and Help Students Reach Their Potential: A Review of Literature, Nora Alder and Susan P. McKelvey
Educators' Perceptions of Mobile Students and the Interventions that Assist Them, Timothy Bruce Bostic and Mary Angela Coleman
The Relationship Between Classroom Assessment Practices and Student Motivation and Engagement: A Literature Review, Kathleen M. Cauley, Gina Pannanzzo, Lisa Abrams, and James H. McMillan
Submissions from 2005
Effectiveness of Instructional Strategies to Enhance the Reading Achievement of At-Risk Students, Leila Christenbury
High Stakes Testing and Students with Learning Disabilities: Factors of Passing and Failing the Virginia Standards of Learning Tests, Paul J. Gerber
Submissions from 2004
Facilitating the Transition Into Middle School and High School, Kathleen M. Cauley and Donna Jovanovich
Accountability Testing and Students With Learning Disabilities: Factors of Passing and Failing the Virginia SOL Tests, Paul J. Gerber
Alignment of Classroom Assessments with the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL), Joan A. Rhodes, Valerie J. Robnolt, and Susan P. McKelvey
Investigating Factors Associated with Low Achievement Early in School: A Pilot Study, Kevin Sutherland
Research-Based Practices as a Protective Factor for Students At-Risk for Academic Failure, Kevin Sutherland and Donna Jovanovich
Submissions from 2003
Teacher Use of High-Stakes Test Score Data to Improve Instruction, James H. McMillan and Susan P. McKelvey
Submissions from 2002
Accountability Tests and Assessment of Students with Disabilities: High-Stakes Are for Tomatoes! A review of Literature, Paul J. Gerber
Using the Internet to Support K-12 Teaching and Learning: A Review of Literature, Rachel A. Karchmer and Leanne Eberly
Stories of Student Success in Title I Elementary Schools, Rachel McCay and Rachel Savage
Teachers' Use of High-Stakes Test Results to Improve Instruction: A Review of Literature, James H. McMillan and Susan P. McKelvey
The Effectiveness of Summer Remediation for High-Stakes Testing, James H. McMillan and Angela Snyder
Submissions from 2001
Dropping Out: Why Students Leave School, Joseph R. Boyle
Students' Perspectives on Their High School Experience, Kathleen M. Cauley, Carl Chafin, and Janine Certo
Retaining Quality Teachers, Janine Certo and Jill Englebright Fox
Retaining Teachers Across the Professional Continuum: A Review of Literature, Jill Englebright Fox and Janine Certo
The Effectiveness of Remedial School Summer Programs: Review of Literature and Annotated Bibliography, James H. McMillan and Dawn Bonanno Fitzelle
Submissions from 2000
Why Students Leave School: A Review of Literature, Joseph R. Boyle and Tara Anderson
Development of a Model to Evaluate a Multi-Agency Attendance Improvement and Truancy Reduction Initiative: Phase I (A MERC Technical Report), Suzanne Nash and Ann S. Allen
Submissions from 1999
Report on the Implementation of Alternative High Schools, Nora Alder and Terry Brown