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Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards, Glossary of Key Terms
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Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010
One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. By the time they complete the core, students must be able to read and comprehend independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Glossaries
The Home, the School and Achievement in Mathematics and Science. Home Environment and School Study Report 1974:4.
Keeves, J. P. – 1974
The purpose of the inquiry described was to examine the ways in which characteristics of the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group accounted for change in performance at school over the period of a year, in which the sample of children selected for investigation progressed from primary school to high school. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Family Influence, Longitudinal Studies
The Performance Cycle: Motivation and Attention as Mediating Variables in School Performance. Home Environment and School Study Report 1974:5.
Keeves, J. P. – 1974
In this paper, personality characteristics of the students and their performance at school are linked together. The performance cycle model of 12 months duration used here contains causal relationships between initial achievement, the mediating variables of academic motivation and attentiveness, and final achievement. A random sample of 215…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Educational Research, Family Environment