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Dana Cantillo-Perilloux – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore how leadership approaches can inform and direct the way leadership is practiced in elementary schools. In this study, the researcher examined the impact of leadership approaches on the sustainability of the implementation of the Reading Recovery program regarding reading achievement. Early primary school…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Elementary Schools, Instructional Leadership, Sustainability
Renee Elissa Lastrapes – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Once students have mastered the mechanics of reading, they are expected to learn new material by reading. This new material, however, becomes increasingly more complex as students enter upper elementary and especially middle and high school. If students fail to comprehend what they read, they risk failure in content courses such as science and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
John Dana Gaspard – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The primary purpose of this study is to determine the influence of selected demographic and academic factors on the science achievement among middle school students in Louisiana. The dependent variable for this study was Science achievement as measured by the Eighth Grade LEAP Test. The independent variables consisted of selected demographic…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Science Achievement, Student Characteristics
Nguyen-Dufour, Khanh Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the experiences of Louisiana's Ensuring Literacy For All (ELFA) initiative from the perspective of educational administrators in order to identify: (a) the factors within ELFA that contributed to student reading performance; (b) the effects of the perceptions of ELFA…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Literacy, Reading Achievement
Conway Sledge-Murphy, Felicia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
"Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)," a diagnostic reading tool used in the majority of school districts throughout the state of Louisiana, has been identified by many researchers as a reliable and valid tool to identify reading deficiencies in struggling readers (Good, Simmons, & Kame'enui, 2001; Ritchey,…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
Johnny W. Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the influence of selected demographic characteristics on the reading ability of fourth-grade students in Louisiana. The dependent variable for this study was reading ability of fourth-grade students. Independent variables were demographic characteristics as measured by reading achievement (overall…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Ability