A-Z List of Free SEDL Publications
Below is a list of SEDL publications available free online. There are additional publications available in the SEDL Store, where SEDL lists the publications available for sale.
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| Facilitative Leadership: The Imperative for Change
(1992) This guide discusses successful leadership strategies that help promote change. It presents a brief history of approaches to school change, actions of successful school leaders and how they contributed significantly to successful change, and how school leaders address systemic change or restructuring.  | 
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| Family and Community Involvement:
Reaching Out to Diverse Populations
(2000) This book is geared toward teachers, principals, and superintendents who want to develop meaningful parent and community involvement in culturally and linguistically diverse communities. | 
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| Final Evaluation of the Texas A&M University System's Support Activities Related to the Limited English Proficient Student Success Initiative
(2007) This report describes SEDL's 3-year evaluation study of the Texas A&M University System's online English as a second language (ESL)/bilingual professional development and LEP campus support services. | 
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| Finding Common Ground:
Creating Local Governance Structures
(1993) This report profiles several state initiatives that change the roles of state and local governments in the governance of service and systems for children and their families. |
| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 12:
What Consumers and Researchers Say About Research
(2005) The NCDDR and the Research Utilization Support and Help (RUSH) project at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory conducted two studies in 2005 with different audiences in order to learn more about their perceptions of research and how best to get information to diverse groups of end users. This issue of FOCUS shares the findings from the two studies and suggests potential implications. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 13:
Meet the New NCDDR
(2006) This issue of FOCUS summarizes the KT process as described by several international authors. International scholars, particularly from Canada and Europe, have published numerous articles on KT processes and strategies. While the majority of these KT articles are published in medical and health-care journals, there is a growing interest in applying the KT concept more generically (i.e., knowledge to action) and to other disciplines, including disability and rehabilitation research. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 15:
The Role of Systematic Reviews in Evidence-Based Practice, Research, and Development
(2006) This issue of FOCUS, written by Ralf W. Schlosser, PhD, is part one of a three part series on the topic of evidence-based technology. This issue provides an overview of systematic reviews in research and development. Systematic reviews aim to synthesize the results of multiple original studies by using strategies that delimit bias. Systematic reviews can be used to inform evidence-based practice, which is increasingly shaping the disability and rehabilitation research field. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 16:
The Campbell Collaboration: Systematic Reviews and Implications for Evidence-Based Practice
(2007) This issue of FOCUS, written by Herb M. Turner III, PhD and Chad Nye, PhD, highlights the work of the Campbell Collaboration (C2) and the development of systematic reviews of research evidence. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 17:
Appraising the Quality of Systematic Reviews
(2007) This FOCUS is part two of a three part series on systematic reviews. This issue describes critical considerations for appraising the quality of a systematic review including the protocol, question, sources, scope, selection principles, and data extraction. The author also describes tools for appraising systematic reviews. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 18:
Knowledge Translation at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: A Primer
(2007) This FOCUS describes the work of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and efforts to translate knowledge from the research setting into real-world applications for the benefit of Canadians. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 19:
Getting Published and Having an Impact: Turning Rehabilitation Research Results Into Gold
(2008) This FOCUS suggests strategies that rehabilitation researchers can use to maximize their work—turning "research results into gold." In the disability and rehabilitation research community, it is important for researchers to be cognizant of how published results of research studies can facilitate or limit their use in answering important evidence-based questions. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 20:
Campbell Collaboration Establishes Disability Subgroup
(2008) This FOCUS, highlights exciting new developments within the international Campbell Collaboration (C2) establishing a disability subgroup. A previous issue of FOCUS (Technical Brief, No. 16, 2007) provides background information about C2 and its work regarding systematic reviews. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 23:
The Use of CIRRIE's Database of International Rehabilitation Research in Conducting Systematic Reviews
(2009) This FOCUS, describes the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange’s (CIRRIE) bibliographic database of International Rehabilitation Research. The database is useful for conducting systematic reviews. It includes research conducted in most geographic regions of the world as well as citations to articles originally published in languages other than English. | 
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| FOCUS - Technical Brief Number 9:
What Are the Standards for Quality Research?
(2005) This issue of FOCUS discusses principles and standards for quality research, the basis for these standards, and strategies for reporting quality research. In the fields of disability and rehabilitation research, there is a healthy debate regarding the specific criteria for quality research, and the specific checklists to be used to standardize reporting. As the debate ensues, there are many ideas emerging in the public domain related to quality research and quality evidence that can be used to help guide the discussion. | 
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| Follow-up Study of Rural Schools:
Implementing CSR Programs in the Southwest
(2003) To determine whether isolated and small rural schools could fully participate in the Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program, the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) conducted a follow-up CSR study in Fall 2002 and its predecessor study (Carlson, 2000). The follow-up study focused on the same five rural schools featured in the predecessor study to learn the degree to which they were able to fully implement their CSR programs over the three-year period of their respective grants. | 
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| Follow-up Study of Schools Implementing Comprehensive School Reform in the Southwest
(2003) Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) programs were implemented in 1998 in five states working with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). SEDL's five-state region includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. This study examined the implementation status of CSR programs since funding ended. Two hundred and sixty-eight surveys were distributed to schools that received CSR funding. In addition, on-site visits were conducted to a sample of school in each state. School and student performance, as available, was also examined. This study examines the following four aspects of the Comprehensive School Reform programs:
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