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Felicia Irving-Wynter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students in the local school district have continued to score below the state average on the standardized American Literature end-of-course (EOC) assessment. It was unclear what 9th-, 10th-, and 11th-grade teachers in the district were doing to prepare students for success on the American Literature EOC. The purpose of this basic qualitative study…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, High School Students
Evan Way – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate how the implementation of asynchronous online discussions into the classroom impacts the critical thinking skills of secondary language arts students. Although critical thinking has shown to be an important 21st century skill (Paul & Elder, 2002), many students are leaving high school lacking…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Critical Thinking
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Theo Bryer – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article considers the opportunities for learning and inclusive dimensions of role-play based on the reading and interpretation of a canonical text, drawing on a case study involving student-teachers. This exploration of role and learning through drama builds on the foundational work of Bolton and Heathcote. Focusing on students' particular…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Role Playing, Reading, Critical Reading
Crocker, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This case study explored the relationship between levels of content choice in three high school online English language arts courses and evidence of student motivation in student work and students' thoughts about motivation. These courses were designed around the main components of Self-Determination Theory (autonomy, competence, relatedness) and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, High School Students, Electronic Learning, Language Arts
Kimberly Thaggard – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adolescents' in-school identities, out-of-school identities, and literacy practices are intertwined and connected. This research project aimed to explore the development of adolescent identities and out-of-school literacy practices in students' English Language Arts classes. As a high school teacher and administrator, the researcher adopted a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Adolescents, English Instruction
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Elsherief, Heba – McGill Journal of Education, 2020
This short story illustrates an occasion of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogical practices in relation to the canonical texts which are often used in urban classrooms. In it, a lesson on Jane Eyre's childhood point of view and mode of introspectiveness delves into a tale of dancing and Otherness. The story shows that in spaces where…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Minority Group Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Nagpal, Manisha; VanDerHeide, Jennifer; Ha, Seung Yon; Newell, George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Argumentative writing has long been considered an essential skill for disciplinary learning. For researchers and curriculum developers to develop ecologically valid instructional approaches to argumentative writing, a pivotal prerequisite is the understanding of how teachers use various instructional methods in tandem to teach different…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, High School Students
Taiwana Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the study was to explore the use of visuals as it applied to English Language Arts instruction for teachers in suburban and urban middle and high schools in a metropolitan area in the state of Georgia. This study was implemented to address the reading needs of students in response to the changing context of literacy in an age of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking
Heather J. Hough; Belen Chavez – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2024
In October 2023, the California Department of Education released test scores for all students in Grades 3-8 and 11 for the 2022-23 school year. These results represent an opportunity to analyze whether and to what extent student learning has rebounded after the dramatic declines in scores resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and related school…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Scores, Grade 3
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Papay, John P.; Kraft, Matthew A.; James, Jessalynn K. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Numerous high-profile efforts have sought to "turn around" low-performing schools. Evidence on the effectiveness of school turnarounds, however, is mixed, and research offers little guidance on which models are more likely to succeed. We present a mixed-methods case study of turnaround efforts led by the Blueprint Schools Network in…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Models
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Williams, Amy D.; Johnson, Sarah Kate; Shumway, Anika; Eggett, Dennis L. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2021
At a time when antiracist teaching is increasingly needed, this article reports on an IRB-approved, mixed-methods study of high school seniors' affective experiences in an antiracist English language arts classroom. We find that students in this study became less scared and more confident writers. They attributed these positive changes to…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Language Arts, Racial Bias, Social Justice
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Jones, Martin H.; Cooke, Toby J. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
The academic consequences of being popular are well established, but much less is known about the academic consequences of desiring to be popular. Extant research on popularity goals only focuses on the implications for students' school engagement, help-seeking, and academic achievement. The current study expands these findings by examining the…
Descriptors: Social Status, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, High School Students
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Levine, Sarah; Trepper, Karoline; Chung, Rosalie Hiuyan; Coelho, Raquel – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
Research indicates that feeling is fundamental to the multilayered experience of literary interpretation. However, despite great strides in U.S. high school classrooms, discussions about literature are still often characterized by known-answer discourses that exclude feeling. This article builds on small-scale studies of affective evaluation, an…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, High School Students, Reader Text Relationship, Literature
Karen Larson Buechner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Grounded in theory that views language and writing as inextricable from the social event within which it occurs, the purpose of this ethnographic study was to explore how the dialogue produced within the context of a detracked English Language Arts (ELA) classroom contributed to students' perceptions of their writing identity. The class consisted…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Language Arts, Dialogs (Language), Writing (Composition)
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Joshua Bleiberg; Eric J. Brunner; Erica Harbatkin; Matthew Kraft; Matthew G. Springer – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Context: From 2009 through 2017, the vast majority of states implemented major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems (Bleiberg & Harbatkin, 2016). State adoption occurred in part due to Race to the Top (Howell & Magazinnik, 2017), which rewarded states for implementing teacher evaluation systems under the theory that generating…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, High School Students
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