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McClintock, Joseph C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2016
This study examined indicators of cheating on a statewide summative assessment for grades 3--8 over a 4-year period. Between year 2 and year 3 of this study, the state launched an aggressive, highly publicized investigation into cheating by educators. The basis of the investigation was an erasure analysis. The current study found that the number…
Descriptors: Cheating, Summative Evaluation, Measurement, Language Tests
Kaya, Suat; Aksu, Meral – Online Submission, 2016
Recently, the Turkish educational system has gone through a transition from the 8+4 educational model to the new 4+4+4 system, which has mandated elective courses to be taken by the students increasing number of class hours taken in a week from 30 to 37 hours. This has caused some problems in scheduling of schools in Turkey where double shift…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Block Scheduling
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Bandeira de Mello, V.; Bohrnstedt, G.; Blankenship, C.; Sherman, D. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
Under the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, states developed their own assessments and set their own proficiency standards to measure student achievement. This has resulted in a great deal of variation among the states, both in their proficiency standards and in their student assessments (NCES 2008-475).…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Alkharusi, Hussain; Aldhafri, Said; Al-Hosni, Khoula; Al-Busaidi, Saleh; Al-Kharusi, Bader; Ambusaidi, Abdullah; Alrajhi, Marwa – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
A scale for measuring self-efficacy for teaching mathematics in grades 5 to 10 was developed in this study for teachers in Oman. The participants were 328 mathematics teachers randomly selected from five educational governorates in the Sultanate of Oman. Factorial structure of the scale revealed three subscales: self-efficacy for understanding the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers
Marzoli, Rita; Papa, Ornella – Online Submission, 2017
This study investigates the relationship between School Library and Students' achievement on a population sample of 9896 Schools. Many international researches confirmed the importance of the School Library for the Students learning. Recently the IEA PIRLS survey has revealed a positive relationship between the Reading comprehension performance…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Academic Achievement, Italian, Language Tests
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Hedberg, E. C.; Hedges, Larry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to showcase new research that seeks to provide guidance on the heterogeneity of treatment effects by utilizing the variance of demographic differences in state assessments. This study is focused on a simple randomized block design where students are nested within schools, and within each school students are randomized…
Descriptors: Databases, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Research Design
Huang, Haigen – Wake County Public School System, 2018
The WCPSS Student Survey is administered each year to measure students' perceptions about their learning experiences. Over 24,000 students in grades 5, 8, and 9 responded to the 51-item survey in the spring of 2018. Results by grade were very similar to 2017 survey results. The majority of students had positive perceptions of their schools and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Kjellstrand, Jean M.; Reinke, Wendy M.; Eddy, J. Mark – Grantee Submission, 2018
Increasingly, "children of incarcerated parents" is becoming the label to describe a growing number of children with a history of parental incarceration. However, while these children and families frequently experience a variety of challenges, the web of interacting influences they face is complex. This variation makes it difficult to…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Institutionalized Persons, Parents, Children
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Online Submission, 2021
This report examines how students are performing across the entire 2020-2021 school year in reading and mathematics during the pandemic. Based on insights from millions of student assessments, the report explores key questions effected by COVID-19 in education, including: (1) How much did students grow during the 2020-2021 school year compared…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Braun, Gina; Tejero Hughes, Marie – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2020
Providing instruction to students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be challenging for teachers since students can have a range of unique learning needs, particularly in reading comprehension. Given that reading comprehension is a complex process requiring the use of various knowledge and skills simultaneously, many students with ASD often…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Comprehension, Student Needs
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Oxley, Margaret – Kairaranga, 2020
As a facilitator of the Incredible Years for Teachers Programme (IYT), I have found that the classroom management strategies participant teachers learned during the 6-month programme period have not been embedded and sustained in their use through time. This inquiry investigated the benefits and barriers to IYT being spontaneously, consistently…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Workshops, Classroom Techniques
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Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Urban Education, 2020
This article reveals inequity as a longitudinal construction involving the cumulation of micro/macroaggressions for children who live in high-poverty communities and attend poorly funded schools. Drawing on critical race theory and empirical research that documents forms of micro/macroaggression, a longitudinal analysis is used to identify forms…
Descriptors: Aggression, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools, Longitudinal Studies
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Luo, Dehong; Gong, Jing – SAGE Open, 2022
Home language (HL) effects on academic language literacy have been extensively discussed. However, previous research has mostly focused on Indo--European languages. This study extends the literature by using data (n = 17,600) collected in a diversified language area: Guangxi, China. We examined the effects of four HLs and four socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Native Language, Academic Language, Literacy, Socioeconomic Influences
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Loeb, Susanna; Christian, Michael S.; Hough, Heather; Meyer, Robert H.; Rice, Andrew B.; West, Martin R. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
Measures of school-level growth in student outcomes are common tools for assessing the impacts of schools. The vast majority of these measures use standardized tests as the outcome of interest, even though emerging evidence demonstrates the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL). In this article, we present results from using the first…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Student Surveys, Institutional Characteristics
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