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**ELLI in Ellyn** - Igniting Passion, Inspiring Excellence, Imagining Possibilities through Lifelong Learning
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// Project Aims and Objectives: // This research aims to:

 * ======Investigate the relationships between learning power and pedagogical practice designed to enhance learning relationships and develop learning capacity======
 * ======Explore the impact of pedagogical practice upon the students’ perceptions of themselves and their attitudes toward learning, as measured by the ELLI inventory======
 * ======Investigate how far the use of these learning evaluation instruments can assist a school in integrating hard and soft evidence into its assessment and self-evaluation processes and reporting strategies.======
 * ======Investigate if a correlation exists between improved learning capacity and academic achievement as reported by a matrix of academic measures including but not limited to MAP tests, teacher assessments, placement tests, and ISAT tests======
 * ======Foster a culture that values and fosters lifelong learning in students.======
 * ======Develop an ecology of learning in District 41 schools that is learner-centred.======
 * ======Facilitate and support Professional Learning Communities (PLC) committed to strengthening learner confidence.======
 * ======Propose to the community that the domains of lifelong learning are an integral part of what constitutes valuable learning and this along with traditional measures of academic achievement constitute a more precise picture of student learning.======
 * ======Provide guidelines and strategies to teachers for differentiating instruction based on learning needs.======
 * ======Provide an innovative approach to meeting the challenge of assisting students who have to date failed to meet AYP.======

**//Research Question//**

 * ==== How valid is the ELLI inventory in a school setting in Chicago, Illinois (quantitative and qualitative)? ====
 * ==== What is the impact of learner-centered practice, including direct teaching of the seven dimensions of lifelong learning, upon learners' attitudes to self and learning in this setting (qualitative and narrative)? ====
 * ==== What happens to the Learning Power of the students following these interventions (quantitative)? ====
 * ==== What is the relationship, if any, between these findings and academic achievement as measured by MAP and ISAT tests (quantitative)? ====
 * ==== What is the impact of the ideas and assessments associated with learning power on pedagogical practice and the values and culture of the schools involved (qualitative and narrative)? ====