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Leong, Che Kan – Elementary School Journal, 2009
A sample of 141 Canadian children in grades 3 through 6 wrote to dictation 24 short sentences sampling 90 lexical items representing 10 inflectional morphological categories to study their relation to the written spelling of 40 sight words. The children were encouraged in 3, 30-minute teaching sessions to use multiple strategies of retrieval,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Phonemes, Morphology (Languages)
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Luo, Wen; Hughes, Jan N.; Liew, Jeffrey; Kwok, Oiman – Elementary School Journal, 2009
Based on a sample of 480 academically at-risk first graders, we used a cluster analysis involving multimethod assessment (i.e., teacher-report, peer-evaluation, and self-report) of behavioral and psychological engagement to identify subtypes of academic engagement. Four theoretically and practically meaningful clusters were identified and labeled…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Tests, Multivariate Analysis