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Kathy Swan; Alicia McCollum; Kelli Lemaster; Helena Sands; Tanya Schmidt – Social Education, 2024
Shifting to an inquiry-based practice can be challenging. How should teachers get started? How many times should teachers plan for inquiry? What do teachers do when students struggle with inquiry? How long does it take for students to buy in to the inquiry process? These kinds of questions, and the concerns that underlie them, can create an…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Social Studies, Curriculum Design, Grade 6
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Klingbeil, David A.; Van Norman, Ethan R.; Nelson, Peter M. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
This direct replication study compared the use of dichotomized likelihood ratios and interval likelihood ratios, derived using a prior sample of students, for predicting math risk in middle school. Data from the prior year state test and the Measures of Academic Progress were analyzed to evaluate differences in the efficiency and diagnostic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 6, Grade 7, At Risk Students
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Liao, Xiangyi; Bolt, Daniel M. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Four-parameter models have received increasing psychometric attention in recent years, as a reduced upper asymptote for item characteristic curves can be appealing for measurement applications such as adaptive testing and person-fit assessment. However, applications can be challenging due to the large number of parameters in the model. In this…
Descriptors: Test Items, Models, Mathematics Tests, Item Response Theory
Pyatigorsky, Mikhail; Gulemetova, Michaela; Chan, Vincent; Allen, Katherine; Saltares, Eliana; Elkins, Robyn – WestEd, 2019
Reading Apprenticeship is a model of academic literacy instruction designed by the Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) at WestEd to improve student literacy skills and academic achievement. Based on understandings of the close relationship between curricular reform and professional development, Reading Apprenticeship includes an instructional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Comprehension
Schigur, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examines the relationship between the use of an iPad in one-to-one environments and reading achievement based on standardized test scores in a middle school setting. This study uses cognitive engagement theory to connect iPad engagement with reading achievement. This study involved 253 middle school students from Milton Middle School in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Reading Achievement, Middle School Students
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Cook, Connor; Olney, Andrew M.; Kelly, Sean; D'Mello, Sidney K. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Automatic assessment of the quality of classroom discourse can have a transformative effect on research and practice on improving teaching effectiveness. We improve on a previous automated method to measure teacher authentic questions -- open-ended questions without pre-scripted responses that predict student achievement growth -- using classroom…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Academic Discourse, Teacher Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education
Kelly, Sean; Olney, Andrew M.; Donnelly, Patrick; Nystrand, Martin; D'Mello, Sidney K. – Educational Researcher, 2018
Analyzing the quality of classroom talk is central to educational research and improvement efforts. In particular, the presence of authentic teacher questions, where answers are not predetermined by the teacher, helps constitute and serves as a marker of productive classroom discourse. Further, authentic questions can be cultivated to improve…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods
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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
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Petersen, Jennifer Lee; Hyde, Janet Shibley – Educational Psychology, 2017
Although many studies have documented developmental change in mathematics motivation, little is known about how these trends predict math performance. A sample of 288 participants from the United States reported their perceived math ability, math utility value and math interest in 5th, 7th and 9th grades. Latent growth curve models estimated…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Middle Schools, Middle School Students
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Grigg, Jeffrey; Hanselman, Paul – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
In this districtwide scale-up, we randomly assigned seventh-grade students within 11 schools to receive a series of writing exercises designed to promote values affirmation. Impacts on cumulative seventh-grade grade point average (GPA) for the district's racial/ethnic minority students who may be subject to stereotype threat are consistent with…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Grade 7, Writing Assignments, Self Esteem
Taege, Jeffrey; Krauter, Krista; Lees, Jonathan – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2015
This field report is the third in a series produced by the Center on Innovations in Learning's League of Innovators. The series describes, discusses, and analyzes policies and practices that enable personalization in education. Issues of the series will present either issue briefs or, like this one, field reports on lessons learned by…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Learning Problems, Emotional Disturbances, English Language Learners
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Nelson, Nicole; Shaw, Bret R. – Journal of Extension, 2013
The study reported here measured the impact of natural schoolyards, within the science curriculum, on middle school students' environmental attitudes. It was expected that students engaged in such a curriculum would show increased pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Participants were 7th-grade students in Madison, WI. A modified form of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Playgrounds
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Grigg, Jeffrey; Rozek, Chris; Hanselman, Paul – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
This article proposes closing the academic performance gaps between African American and Latino students and their White counterparts particularly in the line of research that concerns the idea of "stereotype threat." Stereotype threat is predicated on the notion that people often fear behaving in a way that fits the negative cultural…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Intervention, Academic Achievement
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Witte, John F.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Cowen, Joshua M.; Carlson, Deven E.; Fleming, David J. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
This article considers the impact of a high-stakes testing and reporting requirement on students using publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools. We describe how such a policy was implemented during the course of a previously authorized multi-year evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which provided us with data on voucher…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Educational Vouchers
Hedberg, E. C.; Hedges, Larry V. – Grantee Submission, 2014
Randomized experiments are often considered the strongest designs to study the impact of educational interventions. Perhaps the most prevalent class of designs used in large scale education experiments is the cluster randomized design in which entire schools are assigned to treatments. In cluster randomized trials (CRTs) that assign schools to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, School Districts, Institutional Characteristics
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