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The Effects of Early Childhood Education on Academic Outcomes
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Horton, Sherron Shawon – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The Mississippi State Department of Education (MDE) adopted a state assessment in 2014 to measure early literacy skills for incoming kindergarten students (Mississippi Joint Legislature Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review [PEER], 2015). The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of early childhood education (ECE)…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
Using Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) to Implement a Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework for Early Reading
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Tokac, Umit – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The dissertation explored the efficacy of using a POMDP to select and apply appropriate instruction. POMDPs are a tool for planning: selecting a sequence of actions that will lead to an optimal outcome. RTI is an approach to instruction, where teachers craft individual plans for students based on the results of screening test. The goal is to…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Program Implementation, Response to Intervention, Beginning Reading
An Evaluation of Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) Participation on Third Grade Reading and Math Performance in a Rural School System
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Smith, Christy DeBerry – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examined the longitudinal performance of a district-wide cohort of students who had accumulated scores for both kindergarten and third grade analysis. The sample was disaggregated by Pre-kindergarten participation and student demographics such as gender, age, minority status, rural class, and socio-economic status. STAR Early Literacy,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grade 3, Rural Schools, Longitudinal Studies
Investigating the Role of Accuracy and Self-Correction in the Progress of Struggling First-Grade Readers Participating in a Literacy Intervention
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Kelly, Robert H. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite almost a century of research, there is little consensus among researchers and educators about the role of oral reading accuracy in beginning reading progress of struggling readers. Should, for example, students be given easy books to read with high levels of accuracy to promote early reading development or does reading hard texts with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement
Teacher Perspectives of the Role Distributed Leadership May Play in Their District's Sustained Training Initiatives in Early Reading, Mathematics, and Student Instructional Interventions
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Pontillo, Carmine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Staff development training is a method many public schools employ in an effort to prepare their teaching staff to better meet the demands of effectively educating district students. In this mixed methods case study quantitative and qualitative data was incorporated to answer four research questions: (1) How accurately do scores achieved by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Participative Decision Making, Faculty Development
The Effects of Singing and Movement in a K-1 Reading First Program
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Tendall, Rosita Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to explore the possible effects of music activities, specifically singing and movement on certain reading test scores in beginning and pre readers in a Reading First school. Participants were 8 kindergarten and 17 first grade students (N=25) at a Reading First elementary school in an urban school district in the…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten