Julie Colella, MetLife Fellow
Julie Colella is a School Test Coordinator at a Title 1 elementary school outside Washington, D.C.
Formerly a first and third grade classroom teacher, she currently plans and administers the testing program according to district, state, and federal guidelines.
Julie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and served as the Senior Class President at Ithaca College.
After a career as a systems analyst and software developer, she earned her teaching certificate at George Mason University and is currently in her 9th year teaching.
Current Research Includes:
Research Title: Looking at non-transient SOL data from Title One schools. Research Project Site: http://nontransientsol.edustudygroup.com Research Question: For non-transient students, do SOL scores meet or exceed benchmark standards, compared with SOL results for transient students? Research Year: 2009-2010 Research Classification: Support Services to Schools Research Summary: Many Title One schools have very transient population. Standardized testing scores are impacted. The research project seeks to review data of students who were not transient in one K-5 Title One school–students who stayed the course for all six years, and look at the impacts transient students have on the overall scores.
Previous Research Includes:
Research Title: Mapping eCART Math results to SOL Math Scores Research Year: 2009 Research Classification: Support Services to Schools Research Summary: A sampling of 120 fourth grade student scores were used to compare eCART standardized testing with Virginia SOL testing. The research compaired eCART groupings and Window 2 eCART results in 4th grade math (Spring 2009) with SOL groupings and SOL results in 3rd grade math (Spring 2008) and 4th grade math. The research used Spring 2008 3rd grade SOL results, Fall 2008 4th grade eCART Window 1 results, and Spring 2009 eCART Window 2 results to show antecedent data. eCART is a new assessment, this research reviewed how relevant the eCART data is to the actual SOL score results. As a secondary question, the research examined the affect of group size on eCART math and SOL math test scores.
Research Title: Meeting the Needs of Remediation Students Research Year: 2007 Research Classification: Student Support/Enrichment Research Summary: With the focus on AYP and No Child Left Behind, we need to find ways to help students who are not passing standardized tests. Many different strategies are currently being used including long term after-school remediation programs and sporadic, intensive programs during summer school or intersessions. The focus of this research is to begin to analyze the effectiveness of some of these strategies and to perhaps discover new, more helpful ways to help these students.
