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Perry, Robin Ernest – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Although the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) is a specific focus of Stoesz's article, a more expansive and thought-provoking critique is made of the NCWWI within the context of a purported overreliance and dependency on the Children's Bureau, concerns regarding the quality of social work education, and the development of a…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Labor Force Development, Reader Response, Social Work
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Williams, Lunetta M.; Hall, Katrina W.; Hedrick, Wanda B.; Lamkin, Marcia; Abendroth, Jennifer – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
The purpose of the present study was to develop an instrument to measure reading during in-school independent reading (ISIR). Procedures to establish validity and reliability of the instrument included videotaping and observing students during ISIR, gathering feedback from literacy experts, establishing interrater reliability, crosschecking…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Video Technology
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Hall, Katrina W.; Williams, Lunetta M. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Five 1st-grade teachers read aloud two Caldecott Award-winning picture books to their classrooms of diverse, urban students. In this two-phase study, researchers analyzed teachers' transcripts for common elements, interviewed 1st-graders and focused on one teacher's read-aloud events while comparing them with her students' responses. Findings…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Aloud to Others, Picture Books
Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2003
The National Reading Conference (NRC) Yearbook represents an archive of conference reports that have undergone the rigorous review that research demands, as well as an indicator of topics, ideas and concerns that occupied participants during the annual conference. With this 52nd volume of the Yearbook, the editors hope the reader finds a broad…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Journal Writing, Literacy, Teacher Effectiveness