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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R.; Beard, Keith – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Studies that specifically test the effectiveness of instructional procedures for improving the writing of young African American males who experience difficulty learning to write are almost nonexistent. Although writing intervention studies include these children, researchers rarely disaggregate their data to determine whether the writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, African American Students, Males, Evidence Based Practice
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Bentham, Jo; Davies, Peter; Galbraith, David – Educational Review, 2016
This paper describes an exploratory trial conducted with 14-15 year-old students in English state schools who were studying business start-ups as part of a course in "Business Studies". The intervention uses a "Story Grammar" strategy to improve students' reasoning by increasing the frequency and complexity of their use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Business Education, Teaching Methods