the impact of adventist education on academic performance in partnership with north american...
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The Impact of Adventist Education on
Academic Performance
In partnership withNorth American Division, Office of Education
Presented By
Elissa Kido, Ed.D., Project Director
Robert J. Cruise, Ph.D., Research Director
Is there an
AdventistAdvantage?
HARMONIOUSDEVELOPMENT
ADVENTISTPHENOMENON
Although church membership is growing, school enrollment is dropping across the
North American Division (NAD).
CognitiveGenesis will collect data that may help us better understand this
phenomenon.
RESEARCHQUESTION
What impact does Adventist Education have on the academic performance
of its students?
MENTALCOMPONENT
Local efforts by conferences in the past have looked at some of the academic
performance variables BUT . . .
Speculation and uncertainty still exists in the minds of parents
ACADEMICPERFORMANCE
Parents question the academic effectiveness of Adventist Education
because they lack empirical data demonstrating that Adventist Education
successfully promotes students’ intellectual development.
Studying the Mental Component through
ADVENTISTEDUCATIONResearching the Academic Effectiveness of
It will produce one of two outcomes, either of which
will be beneficial to Adventist education and ultimately to the church.
TwoPOSSIBLEOUTCOMES
Validate the success of Adventist Education in terms of students’ measurable
academic performance
and/or
show areas that need improvement.
COGNITIVEGENESISBenefits of
• Provide information to evaluate Adventist Education’s
strengths and weaknesses
• Reliable data showing how Adventist Education (AE)
compares to other private and public education
• Correlation with Journey to Excellence (J2E)
COGNITIVEGENESISBenefits of
• Target instructional areas needing improvement
• Correlation and integration with Valuegenesis
• Improved ability to market the positives of AE based on empirical data
“Journey to Excellence”
• Goal of J2E is school improvement
• J2E is the filter through which NAD evaluates everything in education
• 10 Preferred Practices (PP)
• One PP is student assessment
By assessing academic performance, CognitiveGenesis supports one of the 10 PP
of J2E - student assessment.
COGNITIVEGENESISSupports J2E
How will this study be different?
• Current (Up-to-date)
• Comprehensive (Population)
• Control variables to remove bias (Explore Causality)
Some CONTROLVARIABLES• Prior Achievement• Gender• Race• Years in Adventist Schools• English as first language• Socio-Economic Status (SES)• Cognitive Ability: potential abilities that can be
developed
?FREQUENTLYASKED
Questions
?
?Who are the Players
in this research • All nine NAD Unions• All Conferences (Teachers, Parents, Students)
• NAD Office of Education
How long will this take?
2006-07 First year of data collection2007-08 Second year of data collection2008-09 Third year of data collection2009-10 Final Report Phase
Variables associated
with achievement
• Prior achievement• Minority status• Mother’s educational
level• Father’s occupation• Family income• Number of siblings• Students in need
special services• English as first
language at home• Healthy lifestyle• Participation in music
(band, choir)• Parental commitment
to Adventist education
What is different in the testing program?
• Additional data is being collected through surveys of students, parents, teachers and school administrators
• Although some unions are measuring cognitive ability, all unions will include the CogAT along with ITBS/ITED as part of CognitiveGenesis
• RaDARS to be used by all unions
Assurance of Confidentiality of Surveys
• Approval from the Internal Review Board at La Sierra University
• All surveys will go to third party for tabulation• No individual names will be associated with
any of the data
Does CognitiveGenesis have an Advisory Committee?
• 15 to 18 members from the NAD• Representing the diversity of the church• Providing areas of expertise from: Teaching,
Curriculum, Social-Cultural Perspectives, Research and Statistics
Yes . . .
ADVISORYCOMMITEELarry Blackmer, M.A., Associate Director of Education, North American Division
Kelly Bock, Ed.D., Director of Education, Pacific Union Conference
Kathy Bollinger, M.ED., Associate Professor of Education, Union College
Ian Bothwell, Ed.D., Professor of Education, Atlantic Union College
Paul Brantley, Ed.D., Assistant Vice President, Florida Hospital
Hamlet Canosa, Ed.D., Vice President of Education, Columbia Union Conference
Robert Cruise, Ph.D., Research Director, La Sierra University
Debra Fryson, M.A., Associate Education Director, Southern Union
Bailey Gillespie, Ph.D., Director, Hancock Center for Youth/Family Ministry
Edwin Hernandez, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
Elissa Kido, Ed.D., Project Director, Dean of Education, La Sierra University
Linda Koh, Ed.D., Director of Children’s Ministries, General Conference
Charles McKinstry, J.D., Legal Council for Southeastern California & former Superintendent
José Vicente Rojas, Director, Volunteer/Young Adult Ministries, General Conference
Ella Simmons, Ph.D., Vice President, General Conference
Jerome Thayer, Ph.D., Director of Center of Statistical Services, Andrews University
“We have nothing to hide & everything to learn.”
-Kelly Bock, 2005Director of Education, Pacific Union Conference
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
-Warren Bennis, 1996Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration