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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention report, part of the WWC's…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. This What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention report, part of the WWC's…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The "Pathway to Academic Success Project" trains teachers to improve the reading and writing abilities of English learners (ELs) who have an intermediate level of English proficiency by incorporating cognitive strategies into reading and writing instruction. The cognitive strategies include goal setting, tapping prior knowledge, asking…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Writing Instruction
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Hickey, Daniel T.; Zuiker, Steven J. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
Evaluating the impact of instructional innovations and coordinating instruction, assessment, and testing present complex tensions. Many evaluation and coordination efforts aim to address these tensions by using the coherence provided by modern cognitive science perspectives on domain-specific learning. This paper introduces an alternative…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Genetics
Duque, Diana L. – 1993
This report presents findings of the evaluation by the New York City public school system's Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment of three programs (Summer E.S.L. Welcome Plus, Summer Bilingual, and Project Omega) for immigrant students. The Summer E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) Welcome Plus program operated at 19 sites in New York…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Chinese Americans, English (Second Language)
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Sevier, Brian R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
Curricular materials of the past have much to offer researchers and educators today. In this article, I examine two pieces of instructional material, a textbook entitled "People of Denver" and a unit on the inequalities of opportunities available to minority groups in Denver. Both these items were written in Denver, by Denver teachers at…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Minority Groups, Social Studies, Multicultural Textbooks
1980
Sixteen instructors who teach the ninth grade career cluster programs at the Cape May County Career Center produced learning activity packets which would constitute the required career exploration and decision-making activities for ninth graders. At a forty-hour workshop conducted during the summer of 1979 they developed fifteen separate but…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Mork, Dorlan – 1986
The project was to design, produce, and field test interactive video materials to increase junior high school student interest in physics and chemistry. A curriculum development team consisting of junior high school physical science students and teachers and university educators produced a seven-part videotape series entitled "The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Grade 9