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Baldwin, Etta M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examined the perceptions of the school library media specialists and teachers in middle schools in two school districts located in North Carolina. The study investigated the flexible access and school collaboration aspects of the IMPACT grant from the North Carolina Department of Education. The results of the study derived…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Middle Schools, Librarians, Middle School Teachers
Simic-Muller, Ksenija; Fernandes, Anthony; Felton-Koestler, Mathew D. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2015
In this article, the authors report on the initial results of a mixed methods study that examined the beliefs that preservice teachers have about teaching real-world contexts, including those related to injustices, controversial issues, and children's home and cultural backgrounds. Data collection included a survey with 92 preservice Pre-K-8…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education
Rogers, Carrie; McLendon, Ashley – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
Native youth have complex schooling experiences. To better understand Indigenous youths' experience in public schools and in order to inform schooling practices and teacher preparation for both Native and non-Native teachers we share this portrait of Shayla. Through this research, particularly in the use of portraiture to document…
Descriptors: American Indians, Educational Experience, Rural Areas, Middle School Students
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, 2013
In the 2011-2012 academic year, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools transformed eight elementary schools into PK-8 schools. The Office of Program Evaluation (OPE) at the University of South Carolina conducted a multi-year evaluation to understand the PK-8 transition process. OPE research staff collected information from district leaders, principals,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Attendance, Student Experience, Models
Williams, Maegen R.; Warner, Wendy J.; Flowers, James L.; Croom, D. Barry – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
In order for agricultural education teachers to adapt to an ever-changing educational environment, they must possess the skills necessary to integrate technology into their classrooms. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence North Carolina agriculture teachers' ability to integrate educational technology. This study…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Knowledge Level
Houser, Mary A.; Dickens, Virginia; Hicks, Terence – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2011
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between attitudes toward academic and inclusive practices for students with disabilities and selected leadership behaviors (transformational and transactional) among principals in North Carolina. Participants for this study were randomly selected middle school principals from public schools…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Inclusion, Correlation, Leadership Styles
Stevens, Joseph J.; Schulte, Ann C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
This study examined mathematics achievement growth of students without disabilities (SWoD) and students with learning disabilities (LD) and tested whether growth and LD status interacted with student demographic characteristics. Growth was estimated in a statewide sample of 79,554 students over Grades 3 to 7. The LD group was significantly lower…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Student Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement
Valauri-Orton, Alexis; Bernd, Karen K. – American Biology Teacher, 2015
For many middle school students, connections between their lives and concepts like chemical reactivity, microbial contamination, and experimental sampling are not obvious. They may also feel that, even if there were connections, understanding the monitoring and quality of natural resources is something for grown-ups and beyond their…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Microbiology, Chemistry
Unfried, Alana; Faber, Malinda; Stanhope, Daniel S.; Wiebe, Eric – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
Using an iterative design along with multiple methodological approaches and a large representative sample, this study presents reliability, validity, and fairness evidence for two surveys measuring student attitudes toward science, technology, engineering, and math (S-STEM) and interest in STEM careers for (a) 4th- through 5th-grade students…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Test Construction
Hodges, Janice; Pringle, Lajuan S. – School Library Monthly, 2013
The African American male psyche is a complicated multi-layered mixture of outside media influences, stereotypes, peer pressure, how they see themselves, and how they think others see them. This article describes how school and public librarians can help raise the literacy efforts of young African American males. It cites the need for libraries to…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Public Libraries, African Americans, Males
Stocks, Christopher Dion – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the effects of repeated reading on readers identified as below grade in sixth and seventh grade. The study was set in a rural middle school located in the foothills of North Carolina. Students selected for the study were identified utilizing Lexile levels to identify them as below grade level for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Reading Instruction
Tang, Yun; Zoblotsky, Todd – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2015
In August 2010, the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) received a grant of more than $25 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) program for a five-year study to validate its Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) model in three very diverse regions of the United States: rural North…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Science Achievement, Students with Disabilities
Muschkin, Clara G.; Glennie, Elizabeth; Beck, Audrey N. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: Many school systems have ended social promotion by implementing accountability systems where students who fail academic assessments are retained in grade. Additionally, some parents have delayed their children's entry into school, believing that older students have an advantage. While research has examined outcomes for students who…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade Repetition, Age Differences, Social Promotion
Mourning, Erica – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Economically disadvantaged students are being outperformed by their non-disadvantaged peers in middle school mathematics. This problem is evidenced by 2013 data from a national middle school mathematics assessment which revealed an achievement gap of 27 scale score points. Closing this gap is important to schools with high populations of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Models, Mathematics Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged
Henry, Gary T.; Bastian, Kevin C.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Kershaw, David C.; Purtell, Kelly M.; Thompson, Charles L.; Zulli, Rebecca A. – Education Finance and Policy, 2014
State policies affect the qualifications of beginning teachers in numerous ways, including regulating entry requirements, providing incentives for graduate degrees, and subsidizing preparation programs at public universities. In this paper we assess how these policy choices affect student achievement, specifically comparing traditionally prepared…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Public Colleges