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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, 2001
When teachers use systematic progress monitoring to track their students progress in reading, mathematics, or spelling, they are better able to identify students in need of additional or different forms of instruction, they design stronger instructional programs, and their students achieve better. This document first describes progress monitoring…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Reading, Mathematics
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Ju, Yoomi Choi; Cifuentes, Lauren – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
An artfully designed, 3-D computer-generated video story was created to demonstrate the mixing of primary colors to obtain secondary colors. Two research questions were explored in this research: Do artfully designed 3-D computer-generated video stories enhance learning or are such entertaining works a distraction from learning? And, do children…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Graphics, Art Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Cunningham, Anne E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Share's "self-teaching" model proposes that readers acquire most knowledge about the orthographic structure of words incidentally while reading independently. In the current study, the self-teaching hypothesis was tested by simulating everyday reading through the use of real words, analyzing the effects of context, and considering the independent…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Cognitive Ability, Spelling, Independent Study
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Groce, Robin D. – Reading Improvement, 2004
The purpose of this manuscript is to describe how elementary teachers used their experiences in a storytelling inservice training to teach lessons in language arts, science, social studies, and bilingual education. Qualitative research methods were used in simultaneously collecting and analyzing data. Storytelling was found to be a valuable tool…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Story Telling, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Improvement
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Wang, X. Christine; Kedem, Yore; Hertzog, Nancy B. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2004
This study investigated young children's reflections about their learning experiences through Student-Created PowerPoint Presentations (SCPP). The study was conducted in a K/1 classroom in a university-affiliated school while the children completed a project titled "Who Measures What in Our Neighborhood?" The participants were 14 children (five…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Young Children, Teaching Assistants, Learning Experience
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Walsh, Glenda; Gardner, John – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Early years classroom practice in Northern Ireland is perceived to be dominated by a traditional teacher-directed model to the detriment of a more constructivist, play-based and child-initiated learning environment favoured in many nations' early education provision (see for example Walsh, 2000). In 2002, the Northern Ireland Council for…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
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Fawson, Parker C.; Ludlow, Brian C.; Reutzel, D. Ray; Sudweeks, Richard; Smith, John A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The authors present results of a generalizability study of running record assessment. They conducted 2 decision studies to ascertain the number of raters and passages necessary to obtain a reliable estimate of a student's reading ability on the basis of a running record assessment. Ten teachers completed running record assessments of 10…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Generalizability Theory, Reading Instruction, Error of Measurement
Hollingsworth, Amanda; Sherman, Jennifer; Zaugra, Cynthia – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this action research project report was to increase reading comprehension by using cooperative learning. Reading comprehension was a concern for the three teacher researchers at both research sites. There were 51 first and second grade students, 28 elementary teachers, and 51 families of the first and second grade students involved…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Childrens Literature, Reading Comprehension, Action Research
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
Waterford Early Reading Program[TM] is a software-based curriculum for students in Kindergarten through second grade. The curriculum is designed to promote reading, writing, and typing, incorporating literacy skills such as letter mastery, language stories, spelling, basic writing skills, reading and listening development, and comprehension…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Emergent Literacy, Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension
Hite, Clare E.; Evans, Linda S. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
In this time of high stakes testing, teachers' working with English Language Learners (ELLs) becomes a high-stakes teaching act. Nationally, mandated testing is increasing in the schools even as school demographics are changing. The growing numbers of language-minority students come with varying levels of English proficiency, from little or none…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Literacy Education, Language of Instruction, Testing
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Dangel, Julie Rainer; Guyton, Edi; McIntyre, Christie Bowen – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2004
In our graduate programs in early childhood education, we model constructivist practice in the belief that teachers are better able to understand and implement constructivist principles having experienced them in their work. In this practice we attempt to be explicit about constructivist practice in our program and in elementary classrooms. As we…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Elementary Schools, Experiential Learning
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Kasa-Hendrickson, Christi – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2005
Historical research in the field of autism has suggested that judgements regarding the ability of students with autism should be made carefully, taking into consideration the person with autism's difficulty with communication, movement and performance in general. Although the historical literature has urged professionals to proceed with caution…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Autism, Student Evaluation, General Education
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Joseph, Rebecca – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
This study examines six teachers' responses inside and outside of their classrooms to increasingly mixed messages about how they should develop the literacy of California's youngest and most at-risk students. While they must develop highly developed knowledge and skills to teach literacy in linguistically diverse classrooms, they must also adhere…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Urban Teaching, Literacy Education, At Risk Students
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Bass, Judith K.; Lambert, Sharon F. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
Spatial dependence exists when the variation between observations is dependent on spatial location. In the present study, geostatistical methods were used to examine spatial dependence in adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhoods: whether adolescents living in close proximity perceived their neighborhoods more similarly than adolescents…
Descriptors: Proximity, Social Science Research, Family Characteristics, Adolescents
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Davies, Elizabeth P.; Sigelman, Carol K.; Bridges, Lisa J.; Rinehart, Cheryl S.; Sorongon, Alberto G. – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
In an attempt to devise a methodology for characterizing children's intuitive theories of drug action, 217 children in Grades 1 to 6 were interviewed about how two substances, alcohol and cocaine, cause behavioral changes in their users. Measures tapped both structure (Piagetian complexity of causal reasoning, coherence, and construction of a…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drug Abuse, Interviews, Childhood Attitudes
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