Browse TCER’s reports below. The newest reports are available at the beginning of the list; click on the page numbers at the top and bottom of the table to find earlier work. Click the headings to reorder the list by title, date, or file type. Alternately, use the sorting options to narrow your search by category, keyword, or both. Click the arrow on the left side of the title to view/hide an abstract of the report.
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| The Texas Rural Technology (R-Tech) Pilot Program | February 2010 | Parent Page |
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The Texas Rural Technology (R-Tech) Pilot provides funding for rural schools to implement technology-based supplemental instruction for students in Grades 6 through 12. The R-Tech evaluation examines how grantee districts and campuses implement technology-based supplemental instruction and the program's effect on student achievement outcomes. Evaluation findings have the potential to inform policy about the use of technology-based supplemental instruction to support student and teacher learning, to expand course offerings to rural districts, and to improve student achievement.
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| Evaluation of New Texas Charter Schools (2007-10) | June 2009 | Parent Page |
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The purpose of the Evaluation of New Texas Charter Schools is to understand how new Texas charter schools use funding provided through federal Charter School Program (CSP) grants, as well as to examine the challenges and supports to implementing new charter school programs and the effects of new charters schools on student outcomes. The evaluation incorporates case studies of new charter schools' planning and implementation years; information collected through surveys of new charter school teachers, administrators, students, and parents; as well as archival data provided by through the Texas Education Agency's PEIMS and AEIS databases.
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| Evaluation of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot (eTxTIP) | January 2009 | Parent Page |
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The Evaluation of the Texas Technology Immersion Pilot (eTxTIP) is a multi-year research project that studies the effect of technology immersion on student learning and teacher proficiency in Texas middle schools. The study compares outcomes across campus, teacher, and student-level outcomes for a set of 22 middle schools in which all teachers and students received laptops and a matched comparison sample of 22 middle schools that did not receive laptops.
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| Students Training for Academic Readiness (STAR) Evaluations | December 2008 | Parent Page |
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The STAR project combines interventions in the school, family, and community with the goal of improving students' awareness of and preparation for postsecondary educational programs. STAR also seeks to build a college-going culture in the low-income and minority communities it serves. The first year report relies on surveys of STAR students, teachers, and parents; archival data provided by the Texas Education Agency; and interviews with counselors, teachers, and administrators in STAR districts. While the report describes where schools are as they begin to implement STAR's college readiness reforms, it highlights broader issues about the role of schools in preparing families and students for the demands of postsecondary education.
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| Texas Open-Enrollment Charter School Evaluations | May 2008 | Parent Page |
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Texas enacted its charter school law in 1995, and the state's first open-enrollment charter schools opened in the fall of 1996. The legislation enabling charter schools requires that they be evaluated annually and the Texas Center for Educational Research (TCER) has participated in each annual evaluation, beginning in 1996-97.
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| Texas Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education | October 2006 | Parent Page |
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TCER's research on Texas's special education personnel needs supports efforts by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), to foster greater state accountability and establish data-driven planning and self-assessment processes that help states and schools to address provisions of the recently enacted Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004).
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| Texans Getting Academically Prepared (TGAP) Evaluations | March 2006 | Parent Page |
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The Texas Education Agency's (TEA's) state GEAR UP project-Texans Getting Academically Prepared (TGAP)-has provided interconnected activities supporting early awareness of and preparation for higher education among low-income and minority students, their families, and schools in six South Texas school districts. Over its six years (1999-2005), the state grant was guided by three goals for (a) building educator and student capacity for successful participation in challenging college preparatory programs, (b) increasing student and family awareness of opportunities for college and financial aid assistance, and (c) providing meaningful incentives and support for high student achievement from the business community.
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| Texas Open-Enrollment Charter School Revenue: Supplement to the 2003-04 Evaluation  | February 2006 |  PDF (540 KB) |
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This study assesses funding differences, and the sources of differences, between charter schools and traditional districts in Texas. The need for this research stems from conflicting reports on charter school revenues and growing concern over the quality of charter school financial data reported through Texas's Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). Charter school operators and advocates have also called for more research on possible funding gaps, reporting that charter schools receive less revenue per student than traditional districts. TCER's analysis finds that primary source of funding gaps in Texas is the difference in facilities funding for the two types of schools.
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| Texas Study of Students at Risk | October 2004 | Parent Page |
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These reports present findings from a comprehensive evaluation examining the effectiveness of three state-level programs with the common goal of helping students at risk of failure to achieve academically.
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