Since 1996, Lee Jenkins' Improving Student Learning has led the way in teaching educators how to improve performance through the use of quality principles. Now Jenkins has updated his best-seller, adding more examples and simplifying the content to make it easier for anyone to implement the concepts. Teachers and administrators alike will find the information in this book invaluable, as they use the concepts to improve performance and productivity in their schools.
Through his previous work as a school administrator and his current role as a consultant, Jenkins has seen first hand what it takes to make these techniques work in schools. The second edition draws from his experience with many more examples for every level, from pre-school through graduate school, covering a wide variety of subjects. Teachers will find many examples of how other teachers have successfully used these concepts in their classrooms, and administrators will see how school-wide and district-wide implementations are being conducted.
Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms, Second Edition answers the critical question of how to measure improvement and gives very direct and important information about what to measure. Jenkins describes the significant influences Deming's profound knowledge can have on education.
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1 : Improvement Basics
Chapter 1 : An Aim for Education
Chapter 2 : Improvement Instead of Change
Section 2 : Dr. Deming’s Profound Knowledge
Chapter 3 : System
Chapter 4 : Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge)
Chapter 5 : Psychology
Chapter 6 : Variation
Section 3 : Improving Learning
Chapter 7 : Measuring Information
Chapter 8 : Measuring Knowledge
Chapter 9 : Classroom Improvement
Chapter 10 : Student Improvement
Chapter 11 : School Improvement
Chapter 12 : District Improvement
Section 4 : Enthusiasm Maintained
Chapter 13 : Measuring Enthusiasm
Chapter 14 : Analyzing Loss of Enthusiasm
Section 5 : Decision Making for Improved Student Learning
Chapter 15 : Steps for Classroom Improvement
Chapter 16 : The Worst Educational Decision-Making Tool—Ranking
Chapter 17 : Priority Matrix
Chapter 18 : Cause-and-Effect (Fishbone) Diagram
Chapter 19 : Scatter Diagram
Chapter 20 : Control Chart
Section 6 : Eliminating Actions That Make Improving Student Learning Difficult
Chapter 21 : Legislative Tampering
Chapter 22 : The Inane Desire for Only One Number
Chapter 23 : The Status Quo
Conclusion
Appendixes
A : Directions to Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Teachers Regarding Geography
B : Rubric for Human Body Paper
C : Analytic Scoring Guides
D : Reading Scoring Guide
E : Writing Scoring Guide
Index
