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Montemayor, Karla Paola – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Throughout the past five to ten years in South Texas, there was a high demand for opening charter schools. Charter schools became the innovative educational reform that provided a plausible solution of schooling other than traditional public schools in South Texas. As of 2014-2015, there were 689 charter schools in Texas serving 238,091 students,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Traditional Schools, Educational Change
Borman, Trisha; Margolin, Jonathan; Garland, Marshall; Rapaport, Amie; Park, So Jun; LiCalsi, Christina – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
Hispanic students continue to be underrepresented among employees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the United States. Among students who decide to major in a postsecondary STEM field, Hispanic students persist at lower rates than non-Hispanic White students (Higher Education Research Institute, 2010). Concern…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation
Wolters, Christopher A.; Barnes, Marcia A.; Kulesz, Paulina A.; York, Mary; Francis, David J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors' purpose was to examine adolescents' reading motivation in relation to standardized assessments of reading comprehension and fluency. After a reading pretest, 60 ninth-grade students (M age = 14.9 years) were randomly assigned to two groups. Compared to those in the control condition, those administered brief oral feedback intended to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Motivation, Adolescents
Lee, Stephanie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Increasing standardized test scores and identifying factors that impact student performance are always on the minds of educators. Educators are continually challenged by experts to consider professional learning communities (PLCs) as a viable pathway to school reform. This treatise will report on the results of a quantitative research study…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Questionnaires, Communities of Practice, School Readiness
Robles-Cardona, Palmira – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The federal government has allotted funding to a local education agency for the purpose of assisting migrant students in receiving a high quality education and performing at-least at proficiency level on state standardized test, but there remains some debate concerning whether or not there have been improvements. Migrant students are facing many…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migrants, Barriers, Access to Education
Swanson, Elizabeth; Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Fall, Anna-Maria; Roberts, Greg; Hall, Colby; Miller, Veronica L. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content knowledge and reading comprehension treatment implemented by 8th-grade social studies teachers over the course of 1 school year. We randomly assigned 8th-grade students with reading difficulties to the intervention treatment condition (n = 45) or the business-as-usual comparison condition…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Grade 8, Social Studies
Cullen, Maureen; Polnick, Barbara; Robles-Piña, Rebecca; Slate, John R. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
In this investigation, we examined the extent to which instructional expenditures were related to student academic achievement for students enrolled in Texas public schools for the 2005-2006 through the 2009-2010 school years. Student performance on the state-mandated assessments for all school districts in Texas for these five school years was…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Expenditures, Instruction, Academic Achievement
Manouchehri, Azita; Yao, Xiangquan; Fleming, Ali; Gomez, Monelle – Athens Journal of Education, 2016
In this work we examined the content of approximately 950 mathematics questions used in measuring achievement among 4th, 5th and 6th graders in the US in an attempt to determine how the current standardized examinations, which were developed to reflect new national curricular mandates, compared to the old measures used for the same purpose. Using…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Tests, Item Analysis
Ramirez, Mark A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed-methods study was to closely examine the leadership practices utilized by K-12 urban school superintendents to influence and increase the academic achievement of Hispanic students. The research consisted of a quantitative study approach where 30 superintendents completed a 47-question…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Mixed Methods Research
Nguyen, Tuan Dinh; Cannata, Marisa; Miller, Jason – Grantee Submission, 2016
Recent theoretical conceptualizations of student engagement have raised questions about how to measure student engagement and how engagement varies not only across schools, but also within school and within classrooms. The authors build on existing research on student behavioral engagement and extend this research to emphasize a continuum of…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Interaction, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Lea, Joy Hill – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The technology that changed the world outside schools is now changing the way curriculum is presented in the classroom. With the national focus on keeping competitive with other countries as well as on accountability standards, it is important for instructional leaders to make informed decisions regarding integrating technology as an instructional…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Lazarín, Melissa – Center for American Progress, 2014
It appears that schools and families are at a crossroads when it comes to testing. High-quality assessments generate rich data and can provide valuable information about student progress to teachers and parents, support accountability, promote high expectations, and encourage equity for students of color and low-income students. But it is…
Descriptors: Testing, Testing Problems, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne; Yun, Joonmo – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
This study examined the predictive validity and classification accuracy of individual- and group-administered screening measures relative to student performance on a year-end state reading assessment in two states. A sample of 321 students was assessed in the areas of word-level and text fluency, as well as reading comprehension in the fall of…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Kent, Shawn C.; Wanzek, Jeanne; Yun, Joonmo – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examined the predictive validity and classification accuracy of individual and group-administered screening measures relative to student performance on a year-end state reading assessment in two states. A sample of 321 students were assessed in the areas of word-level and text fluency, as well as reading comprehension in the fall of…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
Turkan, Sultan; Oliveri, Maria Elena – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
In this article, we review translation, adaptation policies, and practices in providing test accommodation for English language learners (ELLs) in the United States. We collected documents and conducted interviews with officials in the 12 states that provide translation accommodations to ELLs on content assessments. We then summarized challenges…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Testing Accommodations, Translation, Media Adaptation