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Direct linkDuggleby, Sandra J.; Tang, Wei; Kuo-Newhouse, Amy – Reading Psychology, 2016
This study examined the relationship between ninth-grade students' use of connectives (temporal, causal, adversative, and additive) in functional writing and performance on standards-based/criterion-referenced measures of reading and writing. Specifically, structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques were used to examine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Prediction, High School Students, Structural Equation Models, Reading Comprehension
Download full textFung, Karen; ElAtia, Samira – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
Using Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM), this study aimed to identify factors such as ESL/ELL/EAL status that would predict students' reading performance in an English language arts exam taken across Canada. Using data from the 2007 administration of the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP) along with the accompanying surveys for students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, English (Second Language)
Barbour, Michael K.; Mulcahy, Dennis – Education in Rural Australia, 2008
Six years ago the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation began a virtual high school within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Designed primarily to provide courses in specialized areas to students in rural areas, where schools have difficulty in attracting second language, mathematics and science teachers. However, there has…
Descriptors: High Schools, Distance Education, Academic Achievement, Rural Schools
Bernard, Robert M.; Bethel, Edward Clement; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2007
This study examines the achievement outcomes accompanying the implementation of a Grade 3 laptop or so-called "ubiquitous computing" program in a Quebec school district. CAT3 reading, language, and mathematics batteries were administered at the end of Grade 2 and again at the end of Grade 3, after the first year of computer…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
