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Rachael C. Rost-Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With large-scale wicked problems threatening our world, the integration of sustainability into teacher professional learning is systemically lacking in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to understand the impact of a multi-session, sustainability-related professional learning program on twelve PreKindergarten-8th grade educators…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Self Efficacy
James R. Izzo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Curriculum-based measurements (CBM) are used in schools to screen students for academic difficulties. Oral reading fluency curriculum-based measures (CBM-R) are the most popular, yet several studies have identified predictive bias in CBM-Rs in relation to key variables (e.g., race, sex). Despite a massive increase in the use of these measures as…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bias, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Tests
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Currie, Nicola K.; Francey, Gillian; Davies, Robert; Gray, Shelley; Bridges, Mindy S.; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Ciraolo, Margeaux F.; Hu, Jinxiang; Cain, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
We examined sixth graders' detection of inconsistencies in narrative and expository passages, contrasting participants who were monolingual speakers (N = 85) or Spanish-English DLLs (N = 94) when recruited in pre-kindergarten (PK). We recorded self-paced reading times and judgments about whether the text made sense, and took an independent measure…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Low, Sabina; Liu, Lin – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
Limited research attention has been devoted to disparate vulnerabilities to social-ecological risk factors and how these may explain group differences in bullying by race. To address this gap, the present study used data of early adolescent respondents (M[subscript age] = 11.2 years) from 36 public middle schools (N = 2701) to assess the nexus of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Racial Differences, At Risk Students