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Miller, Daniel P.; Waldfogel, Jane; Han, Wen-Jui – Child Development, 2012
This study investigates the link between the frequency of family breakfasts and dinners and child academic and behavioral outcomes in a panel sample of 21,400 children aged 5-15. It complements previous work by examining younger and older children separately and by using information on a large number of controls and rigorous analytic methods to…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Academic Achievement, Nutrition, Eating Habits
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Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Sharp, Alyssa – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2014
This study explored the relationships among the components of the Arizona Department of Education's new teacher evaluation model, with a particular focus on the extent to which ratings from the state model's teacher observation instrument differentiated higher and lower performance. The study used teacher-level evaluation data collected by the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Observation, State Departments of Education, Correlation
DeRose, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the types of instructors who teach local history, factors affecting their instruction in the community's past, and instructional practices employed to educate students about a locality's history. It examined teachers' implementation of items from "The Making of Milwaukee" (MOM) project which included a book, DVD…
Descriptors: Local History, Figurative Language, Interests, Urban Environment
Wilson, Claire – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this quantitative correlational research was to study the relationship between class size and students' academic achievement. Citywide language arts and math test scores for third and fifth grade students in four New York City public schools were examined using a variety of variables including (a) gender, (b) ethnicity, (c) grade…
Descriptors: Class Size, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Teaching Experience
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Ritchhart, Ron; Turner, Terri; Hadar, Linor – Metacognition and Learning, 2009
A method for uncovering students' thinking about thinking, specifically their meta-strategic knowledge, is explored within the context of an ongoing, multi-year intervention designed to promote the development of students' thinking dispositions. The development of a concept-map instrument that classroom teachers can use and an analytic framework…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Concept Formation, Student Attitudes, Metacognition
Schaenen, Inda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative case study reports on a three-year writing enrichment program among second, third, and fourth graders at a public urban elementary school in a medium-sized midwestern city. Designed as teacher research, the inquiry is a phenomenological examination of the experience of the workshop for its participants, including more than one…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Empowerment, Class Activities, Learning Activities
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Mercer, Sterett H.; McMillen, Janey Sturtz; DeRosier, Melissa E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2009
This study examined aggressive and pro-social classroom descriptive norms as predictors of change in aggression and victimization during middle childhood. Participants included 948 children in third through fifth grade. Measures of teacher-reported aggressive and peer-reported pro-social descriptive norms were completed at the onset of the study.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Prosocial Behavior, Norms, Grade 3
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Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Hoglund, Wendy L. G. – Child Development, 2009
Three models of the prospective relations between child maladjustment and peer victimization are examined: (a) internalizing results directly from victimization, (b) internalizing leads to victimization, and (c) physical aggression fuels retaliatory victimization that leads to increases in internalizing over time. Data came from assessments of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Adjustment (to Environment), Victims of Crime
Mathis, William – National Education Policy Center, 2011
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the Foundation for Excellence in Education have embarked on a well-funded campaign to spread selected Florida education reforms to other states. These reforms include assigning letter grades to schools, high-stakes testing, promotion and graduation requirements, bonus pay, a wide variety of alternative teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Public Schools
Carlisle, Joanne; Kelcey, Ben; Berebitsky, Dan; Phelps, Geoffrey – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine whether third-grade teachers' instructional actions during reading comprehension lessons contributed to their students' reading comprehension achievement. Our framework focused on teachers' emphasis on three dimensions of instruction (pedagogical structure, teacher-directed instruction, and support for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Reading Instruction, Educational Practices
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Hargrove, Brenda H.; Seay, Sandra E. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2011
This study used data from questionnaires completed by teachers employed in North Carolina schools (N = 370) to determine if teachers felt that non-school-related or school-related factors served as barriers that limited the number of African American male children from participating in gifted programs. The majority of the teachers taught 3rd- to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academically Gifted, Minority Group Teachers, School Personnel
Harte, Helene Arbouet – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examines perspectives of parents of children with autism related to engagement in the home environment. Increased engagement decreases the likelihood of less productive behaviors. Investigation of engagement in the home setting may provide insights into the development of interventions. Collaboration between parents and…
Descriptors: Autism, Musical Instruments, Family Environment, Teaching Methods
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Buyse, Evelien; Verschueren, Karine; Verachtert, Pieter; Van Damme, Jan – Elementary School Journal, 2009
This longitudinal study evaluated the impact of dyadic and classroom-level teacher-child relationship quality in first grade on children's psychosocial and academic adjustment in first (N = 3,784), second (N = 3,666), and third (N = 3,582) grade, controlling for several child features, namely, child demographics and children's initial levels of…
Descriptors: Prediction, Student Adjustment, Grade 1, Classroom Environment
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Williams, Dilafruz – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2008
The crisis of sustainability can be linked to the traditional forms of schooling driven by mechanistic and technocratic worldviews. Progressing to a more sustainable world requires a fundamental shift in the framework of formal education--its structure, content and process--to include principles of systems thinking and holistic learning. A case…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Gardening, Conservation (Environment)
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Bowen, Natasha K. – Social Work Research, 2008
The Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) is a social environmental assessment tool that collects data from third, fourth, and fifth graders, their parents or guardians, and their teachers. Ensuring the validity of the data collected with the child-report component was a primary concern during the development of the ESSP. This article describes…
Descriptors: Testing, Validity, Profiles, Grade 3
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