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Patricia A. Pierre Gilkes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the quantitative ex-post facto study was to determine to what extent a predictive relationship exists between students' reading comprehension skills and mastery of conceptualizing mathematical problems for students in the fifth through eighth grades in a metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. The Federal School…
Descriptors: Literacy, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension
Brenda Scott Kelley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This improvement project was designed to ensure students enrolled in elementary schools with a high poverty index received literacy instructional strategies that promoted literacy achievement. When analyzing Graham County School data, I noticed third-grade students attending high poverty elementary schools were not achieving literacy success at…
Descriptors: Literacy, Grade 3, Poverty, Elementary School Students
Darlene Atkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
State reading exams are crucial in determining students' reading proficiency. The problem is students in inner-city Title 1 middle schools in New York City are consistently performing below the national average on the mandated New York State Reading Exam. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore barriers teachers and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers, Urban Schools
Anthony DiNello – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the examine the effect of individual student goal setting on motivation and reading achievement. The study focused on 50 students in fifth through eighth grade in a rural Midwestern upper elementary school. Upon completion of the Fall Aimsweb Plus Silent Reading Fluency Benchmark…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Reading Achievement, Reading Motivation, Benchmarking
Hill, Kyle Darnell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines how implementing READ 180 for 9th grade students affects their Lexile level and reading ability. The research focuses on two questions: what changes were noticed in the students' Lexile levels? and what program recommendations can be made moving forward? The methodology used was PDSA and improvement science. The study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Grade 9, High School Students
Jolee Healey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The lack of access to high-quality schools creates an achievement gap that limits students' access to future earnings and longevity, exacerbating equity concerns across the nation where struggling, low-performing schools are disproportionately responsible for educating students living in poverty. Large Urban School District's Accelerating Campus…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Academic Achievement, Sustainability, Urban Schools
Allysha D. Ramcharan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between face-to-face learning environments before the pandemic during the 2018-2019 school year and varied learning modalities after the pandemic during the 2020-2021 school year. NWEA MAP Growth data was collected for third-grade students in elementary schools in a rural school district…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Rural Schools, Reading Achievement, COVID-19
Yicheng Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
We study how to automatically generate cloze questions from given texts to assess reading comprehension, where a cloze question consists of a stem with a blank space holder for the answer key, and three distractors for generating confusions. We present a generative method called CQG (Cloze Question Generator) for constructing cloze questions from…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Processes, Questioning Techniques, Computational Linguistics
Kourtney Hines – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this correlational study is to determine the nature of the relationship between school and demographic factors and student achievement using data from the individual schools reported by a school district in Northern Texas. Answers to the following questions were sought: Do the teacher demographic factors (years of experience,…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Institutional Characteristics, School Demography, Academic Achievement
Montgomery, Jacob Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reader identity has long been associated with reading success and is based on social interactions happening in conjunction with reading tasks. Social feedback, observational comparison, and progress are three of the sources of self-perceptions that inform reader identity. During the COVID pandemic, schools employed various safety protocols,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Middle School Students, Reading Attitudes, COVID-19
LeBlanc, Akira Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Across America, an ongoing crisis of reading underachievement exists for many African American students; reading skill proficiency is not being achieved at levels on par with their grade-level peers. The problem addressed in this study was African American students who have not met the minimum passing score on state tests are placed in reading…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Szilagyi, Jillian Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this narrative study was to explore primary teachers' perceptions about computer-based reading comprehension assessments to understand their adoption practices and any associated hesitancy around implementing computer-based assessments. As such, this study sought understand how primary teachers explain their experiences, challenges,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Assisted Testing, Reading Tests
Jacob, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The quantitative study examined the impact of the Fountas and Pinnell Classroom (FPC) Shared Reading Collection. The problem this study addressed was the decline of reading scores in the identified rural Missouri school district. The purpose of this quantitative experimental design study was to determine if the district approved 1 year, 2020-21,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement, Test Score Decline
Fosburgh, Kevin W. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Prior to this study, it was not known it was not known if and to what extent the adoption of the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) predicts fifth-grade academic achievement in math and reading when controlling for baseline achievement in the previous grade for Native American students in rural elementary schools in Northeastern…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, American Indian Students, Rural Schools, Academic Achievement
Christine Bassett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
On average, English language learners (ELLs) do not demonstrate the same academic achievement as their native English-speaking peers. The number of ELLs in U.S. schools has increased over the last several decades, as has the scholarly debate on how to best support ELLs in building foundational reading skills. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement