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Strategies for Closing the Gap: Predicting Student Performance in Economically Disadvantaged Schools
Tajalli, Hassan; Opheim, Cynthia – Educational Research Quarterly, 2005
This study, assumes the significance of socioeconomic status (SES) or input factors in explaining achievement, and considers the impact of other "process" variables, that is, factors over which schools have some control. Using the Texas Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) data, it examines these variables to determine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Institutional Characteristics
Lacina, Jan; Watson, Patricia – Social Studies, 2003
Children find learning about history meaningful when teachers find ways to interest them in the subject. A social studies wax museum is one way to bring state or national historical characters to life. It opens up a new world for children and makes history more than a chapter in a textbook. In this article, the authors present the rationale for a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Museums, Social Studies, Literary Devices
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Policy Planning and Evaluation. – 1995
This report presents analyses of the retention, mobility, and attrition of the Texas teaching force in the 1992-93 school year by teacher characteristics and school conditions. The characteristics of teachers who stay in the teaching profession and those who leave are examined by gender, age, ethnicity, years of teaching experience, salary, degree…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Secondary School Teachers
Denton, Carolyn A. – 1997
The effectiveness of the Reading Recovery Program, a literacy intervention for at-risk first-grade students, as it was implemented in 1995-96 in a small rural school district in Texas was studied. Reading Recovery consists of daily individual literacy tutoring sessions taught by a specially trained teacher, and emphasizes active engagement of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Parker, Dawn; Jensen, Debbie – 1997
The Texas Poll of Elementary School Teachers was a statewide telephone survey designed to accurately describe the current science teaching practices in Texas public elementary schools, and the extent to which these elementary teachers feel prepared for the task. This paper focused on the survey sampling procedures and questionnaire design used in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Methods Research, Program Evaluation
Hutto, Nora, Ed.; And Others – 1991
This manual was designed to assist individuals and groups throughout Texas who are assisting teachers. The manual is composed of 8 sections which include: mentoring models, induction models, other models, adult development, mentoring, induction, instructional planning, and reference material. Also included are the mentoring and induction models…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Agency Cooperation, Beginning Teacher Induction, Elementary School Teachers
Ligon, Glynn; Jones, Phil – 1981
So that comparisons of achievement test scores across campuses would be unaffected by variations in test preparation activities, the Austin Independent School District has set out to standardize all testwiseness instructions and practice testing across the school system. Appropriate preparation activity was defined as that which contributes to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Planning, Elementary School Students
Rodriquez, Minerva D. – 1968
In an effort to determine reinforcement and its effectiveness among Mexican American migrant and non-migrant children, 2 tests, the Children's Locus of Control Scale and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and some questions were administered to 60 first and second graders from 2 elementary schools in Laredo, Texas. It was expected that Mexican…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Blacks, Disadvantaged
Poteet, Ralph Harris – 1968
This study presents the current requirements, standards, and preferences used by superintendents of Texas public schools in their selection of elementary school principals. Specifically, the study attempted to discover the aspects, other than college records and State certification, that are considered in the selection of principals. A…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Bibliographies, Certification, Criteria
Passman, Roger; McKnight, Katherine S. – 2002
High stakes testing presents a significant problem for the design of effective professional development. The absurdity of asking teachers and administrators to raise test scores constantly encourages teachers to teach to the test without regard for the intellectual development of students. This case study from Texas describes the reflective…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Denton, David R. – 1998
Teachers and administrators often note that preservice programs do not prepare future teachers adequately to teach reading. Several Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states have addressed this problem. In 1997, the Georgia Professional Standards Review Commission began examining reading certification requirements and found that most teacher…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Gatlin, Su Jin; Heilig, Julian Vasquez – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
Recent debates about the utility of teacher education have raised questions about whether certified teachers are, in general, more effective than those who have not met the testing and training requirements for certification, and whether some candidates with strong liberal arts backgrounds might be at least as effective as teacher education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Teaching Experience, Teacher Effectiveness
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
This Texas edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Tirri, Kirsi – 1995
This study investigated the cross-cultural differences in American and Finnish elementary teachers' evaluations of their classroom teaching behaviors. The self-evaluation instrument developed for the study was administered to 167 American elementary teachers from Indiana and Texas and to 172 Finnish teachers (also elementary) from two different…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Pena, Delores C. – 1998
This study used interviews, home visits, observations of parent meetings, and informal discussions to examine parental involvement at a Texas elementary school with a high concentration of Mexican American families. In 1997-98, the school's Parent Involvement Cadre (1995-1997) was replaced with a new system of subject-related and support…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Mexican American Education