Research Into Practice

2005

Table of Contents

Challenges to the Planning and Evaluation of Educational Programs in the Former U.S. Trust Territories of Micronesia
Mary Church

Change, Culture, and Community in a Micronesian School
Marylin Low, Winton Clarence, and Keti Williams

Arts Education in Micronesia: Professional Development and Resources
Lori Phillips

Early Literacy Assessment for Learning: Anecdotes from a School in Kosrae
Marylin Low, Winton Clarence, and Keti William

The Home-School Gap: Contextual Factors Impeding Parental Involvement in Education in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Tim Donahue

Results of a Community Health Assessment in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Sonja Evensen, Hilda C. Heine, and Julian Heinz

How Do Precollegiate Academic Outreach Programs Impact College-Going Among Underrepresented Students?
Yvette Gullatt and Wendy Jan

Shoestring Evaluation: Designing Impact Evaluations Under Budget, Time, and Data Constraints
Michael Bamberger, Jim Rugh, Mary Church, and Lucia Fort

Preface

This issue of Research Into Practice, PREL’s annual research compendium, brings together articles detailing research conducted during 2004 by PREL. The articles focus on putting research findings to work to improve education. This issue addresses the following topics:

• Evaluating educational programs in the former U.S. Trust Territories of Micronesia
• Chronicling changing literacy practices in a Pacific island school
• Integrating arts education into the social studies, language arts, and science curricula in Micronesia
• Implementing early literacy assessment for learning in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia
• Overcoming impediments to parental involvement in education in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
• Examining the results of a community health assessment in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
• Studying the impact of precollegiate outreach programs on college-going among underrepresented students
• Designing impact evaluations under budget, time, and data constraints

The articles in this volume were originally published or presented in other forms, many with very limited circulation: as articles in refereed journals, as reports to funding authorities, as doctoral dissertations, or as commissioned white papers. We bring these works together in one volume to share them with a wider audience of our constituents and partners. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the body of work that supports education in the Pacific and around the world.