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Download full textNikodym, Jacqueline Z.; Tejeda, Armando R.; Moffett, David W. – Online Submission, 2015
A new leadership model is needed in all organizations. In response, The Affect-Centered Transformational Leadership Model came about. The new model resulted from a doctoral student's participation in a leadership course, and continued dialogue with its professor. Ultimately, the new model reached the stage of needing to be operationalized. A…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Models, Disadvantaged Youth, Public Schools
Kleiman, Angela B. – 1990
Because of extremely low salaries paid to teachers in the Brazilian public school system, the profession increasingly attracts only persons from the lower income levels who may not themselves be comfortable with the literacy skills they are supposed to teach. Working under extremely hard conditions, and being ill prepared for her profession, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedRaphael, Taffy E.; McKinney, Jean – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1983
Examines the effects of a 10-week program designed to heighten fifth- and eighth-grade students' awareness of information explicitly stated in text, implied by text, and found only in the individual's knowledge base. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 8
Triplett, DeWayne – 1981
A study explored the group mapping activity, a process that encourages each reader to construct a visual schema or map following the reading of a story. It also sought to determine if there is a developmental sequence in eighth grade and college students' mapping and if these representations provided new insights into how readers process language.…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Grade 8, Higher Education
Sullivan, Joanna – 1977
This study compares the critical-reading strategies of 83 good and 72 poor sixth-grade readers and 96 good and 67 poor eighth-grade readers. After reading seven brief passages on social studies and science topics, the students responded to 42 statements that required either the ability to pull facts together and make conclusions based on unstated…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Dedze, Indra – 1996
An exploratory study examined the influence of teaching conditions and instructional strategies on student reading performance in Latvia and compared influences to those in other countries. A representative sample of students was drawn from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Reading Literacy Study in…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
Sainz, JoAnn; Biggins, Catherine M. – 1988
For a potential drop-out who had difficulty comprehending what she had read because she could not recognize a word, even though she often knew its meaning, a methodology for teaching word decoding provided an effective technique for achieving systematic early gains. Lessons for the eighth-grade girl followed this methodology: (1) decoding the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Grade 8
