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Lorna Marie Porter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students classified as English learners (EL) are a protected class of students with core legal rights. There are clear opportunities to strengthen education policies and practices to improve opportunities and outcomes for EL-classified students. This dissertation is comprised of three studies examining key issues in EL education with the goal of…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Outcomes of Education, English Language Learners, Educational Policy
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2020
This report summarizes grade-level promotion and graduation outcomes for 2,859 Austin Independent School District (AISD) students who participated in the Twilight Program in 2018-2019. Of the 12th-grade students enrolled in Twilight in 2018-2019, 95% graduated. Of Twilight students in 6th through 11th grades, 94% were promoted to the next grade…
Descriptors: Student Promotion, Graduation Rate, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Wiberg, Marie – Education Inquiry, 2019
The aim of this paper was to examine the relationship between Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) mathematics achievement and the two school achievement measures of grades and national test results in Sweden. A further aim was to examine the association of TIMSS mathematics achievement with different subgroups of students. The results…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
McCann, Thomas M.; Knapp, John V. – Guilford Press, 2019
To be successful, teachers of English in grades 6-12 need more than basic content knowledge and classroom management skills. They need a deep understanding of the goals and principles of teaching literature, writing, oral discourse, and language in order to make sound instructional decisions. This engaging book explores the pedagogical foundations…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Grade 6
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Lee, Jungup; Hong, Jun Sung; Resko, Stella M.; Tripodi, Stephen J. – School Mental Health, 2018
Face-to-face and cyberbullying are associated with adverse behavioral or health problems. However, little is known about the association between multiple types of bullying and substance use. The current cross-sectional study compares the association among face-to-face and cyberbullying (bully-only, victim-only, bully/victim, non-involved) and…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Adolescents, Victims, Mental Health
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Adelman, Melissa; Haimovich, Francisco; Ham, Andres; Vazquez, Emmanuel – Education Economics, 2018
School dropout is a growing concern across Latin America because of its negative social and economic consequences. Identifying who is likely to drop out, and therefore could be targeted for interventions, is a well-studied prediction problem in countries with strong administrative data. In this paper, we use new data in Guatemala and Honduras to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, At Risk Students, Identification
Jeffery Stuart Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Standardized assessment is the government measurement of academic success in Texas. Currently, students in Grades 3-11 participate in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) as a measure of their comprehension of the state standards. In high school, students are required to pass the high school STAAR End of Course test in…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
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Styck, Kara M.; Malecki, Christine K.; Ogg, Julia; Demaray, Michelle K. – School Psychology Review, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders created a need for assessing elementary, middle, and high school students' experienced stressors associated with the coronavirus situation. In collaboration with a school district wanting information about their students' well-being during the pandemic school shut-down, the current study…
Descriptors: School Psychology, COVID-19, Pandemics, Grade 4
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Forsberg, Camilla; Chiriac, Eva Hammar; Thornberg, Robert – Educational Research, 2021
Background: School climate is crucial: its character can affect pupils' academic achievement, teachers' working conditions and the wellbeing of everyone at school. A major concern for teachers is how to prevent and manage disruptive behaviours. Against this backdrop, there is a need for thorough investigation of pupils' perspectives to better…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Xtreme Reading" is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling students in grades 6 to 12. The curriculum is primarily designed to help students improve their vocabulary, decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension skills. To ensure a productive learning environment, students initially learn…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary Development, Decoding (Reading)
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Rapa, Luke J.; Bolding, Candice W.; Jamil, Faiza M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
An open classroom climate, one where diverse opinions and discussion of social and political issues are welcome, promotes civic development among youth and fosters critical consciousness. Critical consciousness, defined as the capacity to recognize societal inequity along with the motivation and action taken to challenge such inequity and promote…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Consciousness Raising, Social Bias, Social Justice
Warner, Jayce R.; Fletcher, Carol L.; Garbrecht, Lisa S. – Texas Education Research Center, 2019
This study examined the impact of a multi-year, large-scale professional development program on student achievement in mathematics and science. Math and science teachers at the elementary and secondary levels who participated in the professional development program were matched to a control group. Results revealed no differences in State of Texas…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Weeks, Jonathan P. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2018
Vertical scales are widely used in educational assessment as a basis for considering grade-to-grade changes in student performance. Typically, the underlying construct is assumed to be essentially unidimensional; however, if there is a change in the measured construct across grades, this assumption may be untenable. Developing a multidimensional…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Basic Skills
Chamberlain, Rachel; Scales, Peter C.; Sethi, Jenna – Power and Education, 2020
Student-teacher relationships have been largely explored in literature from the perspective of successful relationships, i.e., what constitutes a successful relationship and how teachers build them. However, in moments of student defiance, resistance or pushback, how do teachers react? When teachers recount such moments, is the narrative one…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers
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