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Deconstructing Otherness: Social Studies Teachers' Classroom Discursive Representations of African and Middle Eastern Populations
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Osborn, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This Critical Discourse Analysis examined the classroom discourse of six secondary social studies teachers during lessons dedicated to the study of Africa and the Middle East. The study focused on the phenomenon of otherness and the ways in which teachers contribute to or challenge the depiction of various African and Middle Eastern populations as…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Secondary School Teachers
PISA 2012 Data Tables, Figures, and Exhibits. NCES 2014-024
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
"PISA 2012 Data Tables, Figures, and Exhibits" is a companion publication to the report entitled: "Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Mathematics, Science, and Reading Literacy in an International Context. First Look at PISA 2012. NCES 2014-024". PISA 2012 assessed students' mathematics, reading, and science literacy.…
Descriptors: International Programs, Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Do School Segregation and School Resources Explain Region-of-Origin Differences in the Mathematics Achievement of Immigrant Students?
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Dronkers, Jaap; Levels, Mark – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
Levels and Dronkers (2006) showed that educational achievement differs between immigrant students from different regions of origin (Latin America, Northern Africa, and Western Asia). This follow-up paper establishes whether these differences in educational achievement between immigrant students from different regions of origin can be explained by…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries