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Hamston, Julie; Love, Kristina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This article describes a theoretically informed methodology for eliciting the voices of adolescent boys identified by their teachers and parents as reluctant leisure time readers. Similar methods have also been used to draw out the voices of the boys' parents to understand their efforts to guide and maintain their sons' literacy practices, within…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Males, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
Delaware Department of Education, 2006
This report, submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, contains summary details of Delaware students' growth in the areas of reading, mathematics, writing, science and social studies. The results reported herein are part of a long-term effort to gather data on Delaware students' educational progress and use the data to inform decisions about…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Educational Testing, Accountability
White, Richard N.; Williams, Imeh J.; Haslem, M. Bruce – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2005
Community School District 23 (CSD 23) in Region 5 of the New York City public schools serves students who reside in central Brooklyn. The district enrolls approximately 12,800 students in grades K-8 in 18 schools. Scholastic READ 180 is one of several reading interventions that the district is using to improve student performance. The staff of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Reading Programs, Intervention
Hall, Leigh A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2005
This year-long case study examines how a struggling reader in a sixth-grade social studies class, a seventh grade mathematics class, and an eighth grade science class "transacted" with the reading task demands of her specific classroom. Through regular classroom observations and interviews, the researcher documents how each student responded to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Social Studies, Science Education, Mathematics Education
David Cloud – ProQuest LLC, 2005
This study was designed to examine the associations and differences that exist in the NCE scores of students on the "Terranova" portion of the Tennessee Comprehensive Exam, as well as the possible influence of variables such as initial scores, grade level, gender, and free or reduced lunch status. The population consisted of a stable…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Instructional Program Divisions

Sham, Diana Po Lan – Online Submission, 2002
The research was conducted in Sydney and Hong Kong using students, from grades 5 to 9, whose first language or teaching medium was English, learning to read Chinese as second language. According to cognitive load theory, the processing of single Chinese characters accompanied by pictures should impose extraneous cognitive load and thus hinders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Language, Chinese
Steinle, Vicki; Stacey, Kaye – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Over a period of about 3 years, 3204 students in Grades 4 to 10 completed 9862 tests to identify and track their interpretation of decimal notation. Analysis of the longitudinal data demonstrates that different misconceptions persist among students to different degrees and in different patterns across the grades. Estimating the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Parents' use of physical discipline has generated controversy related to concerns that its use is associated with adjustment problems such as aggression and delinquency in children. However, recent evidence suggests that there are ethnic differences in associations between physical discipline and children's adjustment. This study…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Marital Status
Attali, Yigal; Burstein, Jill – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
The e-rater® system has been used by ETS for automated essay scoring since 1999. This paper describes a new version of e-rater (v.2.0) that differs from the previous one (v.1.3) with regard to the feature set and model building approach. The paper describes the new version, compares the new and previous versions in terms of performance, and…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Automation, Scoring, Comparative Analysis
Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2004
This technical report presents an overview of a reading assessment used by a large school district in the Pacific Northwest. It provides sufficient background information to enable those unfamiliar with the assessment to understand the various subtests that comprise it as well as its development and application in the district for making…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Educational Assessment, School Districts, Item Response Theory
White, James Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2004
The opportunity and right to obtain a free public education provides the opportunity for all Americans to achieve success socially, financially, and professionally. The public education system has endured decades of changes as it attempts to address social, cultural, and academic issues that arise as the nation evolves. The public education system…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Public Education, African American Students, Males
Stone, Susan; Jacob, Robin Tepper – Education Next, 2005
Despite mixed reviews from many educators--and some researchers--Chicago's retention policy to end social promotion has turned out to be a popular program. Surprisingly, perhaps, its most avid fans are the people most affected by it: teachers and students. Chicago's ending of social promotion was intended to make educators pay more attention to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys, Reading Skills
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Sowa, Claudia J.; May, Kathleen M.; Tomchin, Ellen Menaker; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Cunningham, Caroline M.; Taylor, Wesley – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2004
This research monograph on the social and emotional development of gifted students' is divided into four parts. Part 1 of the report focuses on analysis of the literature. Parts 2-4 present results of seven qualitative and quantitative studies of adolescent development. In Part 2, Studies 1 and 2 expand Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive appraisal…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Academically Gifted, Females, Construct Validity
Sclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
Washington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2003
This report summarizes evaluation results of the AISD state-funded Optional Extended Year Program for 2002-2003.
Descriptors: School Districts, Extended School Year, Elementary School Students, Parent Participation