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Kerry Kisiel Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Public elementary schools throughout the nation have hired increased numbers of support staff, including literacy tutors, through federal Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief (ESSER) grant funding. Prior research on volunteer tutors and preservice teachers highlights the potential impact of tutoring on student learning outcomes. Yet…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Tutors, Self Efficacy
Leah P. McCoy, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
This document presents the proceedings of the 28th Annual Research Forum held June 27, 2024, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eight action research papers: (1) College Athletics and the High School Athlete: Perspectives of High School Coaches (Michael Goehrig); (2) The Influence of Blogging on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics, Athletics
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Jameson, Molly M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
As the United States falls farther behind other countries in standardized math assessments, the author seeks to understand why U.S. students perform so poorly. One of the possible explanations to U.S. students' poor math performance may be math anxiety. However, math anxiety in elementary school children is a neglected area in the research. The…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Mathematics Anxiety, Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics
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Pierce, Margaret E.; Wechsler-Zimring, Adrianna; Noam, Gil; Wolf, Maryanne; Katzir, Tami – Reading Psychology, 2013
This study examined the potentially compounding effect of language minority (LM) status on problem behaviors among urban second and third grade-level poor readers. Univariate analyses showed that a disproportionate percentage of both LM and English monolingual (L1) poor readers already displayed clinically significant levels of anxiety, social…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Risk, Behavior Problems, Anxiety