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Selected Journal Publications
Selected Reports
 
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Selected Journal Publications

Brand, S., Felner, R. D., Seitsinger, A., Burns, A., & Bolton, N. (in press). A large scale study of the assessment of the social environment of middle and secondary schools: The validity and utility of teachers’ ratings of school climate, cultural pluralism, and safety problems for understanding school effects and school improvement. Journal of School Psychology.
 
 
Felner, R. D., Seitsinger, A. S., Brand, S., Burns, A., & Bolton, N. (2008). Creating a statewide educational data system for accountability and improvement: A comprehensive information and assessment system for making evidence-based change at school, district, and policy levels. Psychology in the Schools: Special Issue, 45(3)
 
 
Seitsinger, A. M., Felner, R. D., Brand, S., & Burns, A.. A large sale examination of the nature and efficacy of teachers’ practices to engage parents: Assessment, parental contact, and student-level impact. Journal of School Psychology (2007). doi:10.1016
 
 
Felner, R. D., Seitsinger, A. S., Brand, S., Burns, A., & Bolton, N. (2007). Creating small learning communities: Lessons from the Project on High Performing Learning Communities about “what works” in creating productive, developmentally enhancing, learning contexts. Educational Psychologist ,42(4).
 
 
Seitsinger, A. M. (2005). Service-learning and standards-based instruction in middle schools. Journal of Educational Research, 99(1), 19-30.
 
 
Brand, S., Felner, R., Shim, M., Seitsinger, A., Gu, K., & Dumas, T. (2003). Middle school improvement and reform: Development and validation of a school-level assessment of climate, cultural pluralism and school safety. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 570–588.
 
 
Felner, R. D., Favazza, A., Shim, M., Brand, S., Gu, K., & Noonan, N. (2001). Whole school improvement and restructuring as prevention and promotion: Lessons from STEP and the Project on High Performance Learning Communities. Journal of School Psychology, 39, 177-202.
 
 
Felner, R.D., Jackson, A.W., Kasak, D.,Mulhall, P., Brand, S., & Flowers, N. (1997). The impact of middle school reform for the middle years: Longitudinal study of a network engaged in Turning Points-based comprehensive school transformation. Phi Delta Kappan, 78, 528-532 and 551-556.
 
 
 
Selected Reports

Selected Rhode Island Schools: Case Studies of SALT Survey Improvement Indicators
  by Anne M. Seitsinger, Stephen Brand, and Amy Hupkau
 
The CES and Standards Based Instruction: Impact on Student Achievement and Performance, Alignment of Local and State Standards, and "Buy-In" to the Agenda
 
  by Robert D. Felner, Ph.D., Amy Hupkau, Kelly Majos, Minsuk Shim, Ph.D., Stephen Brand, Ph.D., Kenneth Gu, Ph.D., Antoinette Favazza, Ed.D., and their colleagues at NCPE.
 
Parent Involvement and Engagement in Rhode Island's Schools: 1997-2000
  by Anne M. Seitsinger, Ph.D., Robert D. Felner, Ph.D., Minsuk Shim, Ph.D., Antoinette Favazza, Ed.D., Stephen Brand, Ph.D., Kenneth Gu, Ph.D., and their colleagues at NCPE
 

 


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