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Direct linkIbáñez, Romualdo; Moncada, Fernando; Cárcamo, Benjamín – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to compare the use of coherence relations in the school textbooks of four primary school subjects. A corpus of 1,882 texts, corresponding to the genres used to teach in the school textbooks of Science, Language, Mathematics, and History, was analyzed. The analysis was performed manually using a taxonomy that incorporates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Elementary Schools
Bañales, Gerardo; Ahumada, Silza; Graham, Steve; Puente, Anibal; Guajardo, Marcela; Muñoz, Ignacio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The purpose of this mainly descriptive study was to investigate teachers' perceptions about how they teach writing as well as their beliefs about preparation and efficacy to teach this skill. It also examined if preparation and efficacy beliefs along with teaching experience (years teaching the language arts) predicted teachers' reported writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Araya, Pablo; Dussaillant, Francisca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
We investigate the effect of attending selective secondary schools belonging to the "Bicentenario" schools program in Chile, a free education option that is intended to give vulnerable students everywhere in Chile a unique educational opportunity, in the period from 2011 to 2014. By using propensity score methods, we find that attending…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Secondary School Students, Educational Opportunities, Educational History
Gubbins, Verónica; Otero, Gabriel – Educational Studies, 2020
Is parental involvement a relevant factor in explaining academic performance in the most disadvantaged socioeconomic contexts? This article examines the effect of parental involvement on the Language and Mathematics performance of third grade students attending low-SES schools in Santiago de Chile. Multilevel linear regression models are used…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Family Income, School Choice, Parent Participation
Ortega, Lorena; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Sammons, Pam – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
This study investigates school effects on primary school students' language and mathematics achievement trajectories in Chile, a context of particular interest given its large between-school variability in educational outcomes. The sample features an accelerated longitudinal design (3 time points, 4 cohorts) together spanning Grades 3 to 8…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Language Arts
Ponce, Hector R.; Lopez, Mario J.; Mayer, Richard E. – Computers & Education, 2012
This article examines the effectiveness of a computer-based instructional program (e-PELS) aimed at direct instruction in a collection of reading comprehension strategies. In e-PELS, students learn to highlight and outline expository passages based on various types of text structures (such as comparison or cause-and-effect) as well as to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conventional Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Instructional Effectiveness
Hayes, David, Ed.; Sharkey, Judy, Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2008
At its core, a curriculum is what happens among learners and teachers in the classroom. TESOL's Language Curriculum Development Series describes how teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators have developed, adapted, or renewed a language curriculum. In doing so, they have responded creatively and realistically to learners' needs. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Needs
