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Makhoul, Baha – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The current study attempted to investigate the development of Arabic academic vocabulary knowledge among middle-school Arabic native speakers, taking into account the socioeconomic status of the Arab population in Israel. For this purpose, Arabic academic word list was developed, mapping the required academic words that are needed for adequate…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Socioeconomic Status
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Baams, Laura; Talmage, Craig A.; Russell, Stephen T. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Because many school districts receive funding based on student attendance, absenteeism results in a high cost for the public education system. This study shows the direct links between bias-based bullying, school absenteeism because of feeling unsafe at school, and loss of funds for school districts in California. Data from the 2011-2013…
Descriptors: School Districts, Resource Allocation, Financial Support, Public Education
Soland, Jim; Jensen, Nate – NWEA, 2017
Metadata that are often captured and discarded when students take achievement tests on a computer can transform processes for identifying, monitoring, and supporting students who might benefit from social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions. This submission presents a metric called response-time effort (RTE) that relies on such metadata. The…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Reaction Time, Guessing (Tests)
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Whiting, Erin Feinauer; Everson, Kimberlee C.; Feinauer, Erika – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
Research focused on student belonging has sometimes used available measures in a unidimensional way despite evidence of multidimensionality in these scales. This study introduces a new unidimensional measure of school belonging that is psychometrically robust with preliminary evidence of construct validity that we call the Simple School Belonging…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Psychometrics, Robustness (Statistics), Construct Validity
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Margraf, Hannah; Pinquart, Martin – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2018
The present study compared 124 adolescents from special schools for students with emotional and behavioural disturbances (EBDs) and 133 regular schooled adolescents with regard to their perceived maternal behaviour. It was also tested longitudinally whether effects of maternal parenting behaviour on subsequent externalising behaviour vary as a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Adolescents, Special Schools, Emotional Disturbances
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Ceylan, Özge; Topsakal, Ünsal Umdu – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This research was carried out to reveal the bioethical values that special, talented students have about the socioscientific issues that they may encounter in everyday life. Scanning model was used in the research from quantitative research methods. The study's working group is composed of special talented fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Ethics, Biology, Student Attitudes
NWEA, 2018
Thousands of U.S. school districts and many international schools use MAP® Growth™ to monitor the academic growth of their students and to inform instruction. The MAP Growth assessment is untimed, meaning that limits are not placed on how much time a student has to respond to the items. However, to help schools understand the amount of time MAP…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Test Length, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Tests
Harris, Lateasha M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Monitoring academic progress to guide instructional practices is an important role of teachers in a small rural school district in the Southern United States. Teachers in this region were experiencing difficulties using the approved school district model to implement data-driven instruction. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Data Analysis, Teaching Methods, Rural Schools
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Sanders, Martie; Makotsa, Dennis – Education as Change, 2016
Curriculum statements and textbooks are considered to be vital support tools for teachers, particularly during times of curriculum innovation. A recent change in South Africa was the controversial inclusion of evolution in the school curriculum, raising serious concerns amongst biology teachers regarding the adequacy of their content and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Evolution, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
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Kolofík, Tomáš – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2015
The aim of the research was to find out the attitudes of the pupils of the seventh, eighth and ninth year-classes of the elementary schools in Banská Bystrica to the physical and sport education. The research sample comprised 1092 pupils, out of which 584 were boys and 508 were girls. A standardised questionnaire according to Sivák et al. (2000)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physical Education, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Choi, Yeseul; Hall, Garret J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Stereotype threat has been shown to have deleterious impacts on the short- and long-term academic performance and psychological well-being of racial and ethnic minority students. Psychological variables related to this identity threat represent significant sources of achievement and attainment gaps relative to nonstereotyped Asian and white…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, African American Students, Racial Bias, Ethnicity
Johnson, Matthew; Demers, Alicia – Mathematica, 2021
The Kauffman School is a public, tuition-free charter school serving Kansas City students. In the 2019-20 school year, the school enrolled 1,186 students in grades 5 through 12. Most (88 percent) of the students were low income, and 89 percent were Black or Hispanic. To measure the impact of the Kauffman School on its students, the authors…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Low Income Students, Minority Group Students
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Korsun, Igor – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
The aim of this article is a justification of the expediency of study of the scientists' biographies in physics course. Study of the biographic materials is one of the ways of motivation of learning and development of morality, humanity, internationalism. The selection criteria of biographic material have been allocated and method of study of the…
Descriptors: Biographies, Scientists, Physics, Science Instruction
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Shonfeld, Miri; Meishar-Tal, Hagit – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2017
Aim/Purpose: This study took place in a school with a "paperless classroom" policy. In this school, handwriting and reading on paper were restricted. The purpose of this study was to gain insights from the teachers teaching in a paperless classroom and to learn about the benefits and challenges of teaching and learning in such an…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Semi Structured Interviews
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Blake, Jamilia J.; Smith, Danielle M.; Unni, Asha; Marchbanks, Miner P.; Wood, Steve; Eason, John M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2020
African American and Hispanic students receive more punitive school discipline than White students even when students of color commit similar infractions as Whites. Similarly, students with a disability status are more likely to experience harsher discipline in schools compared to their counterparts without a disability label. This study examines…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, White Students, Racial Bias
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