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Peer reviewedSacks, Colin H.; Mergendoller, John R. – American Educational Research Journal, 1997
Relationships between teachers' theoretical orientations toward reading, classroom process, and task assignment and student outcomes for students who had scored above or below the population median on a standardized test of early reading ability were studied for 11 kindergarten teachers and 132 students. Differences for whole-language and phonics…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedMergendoller, John R.; Sacks, Colin H. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1994
Reports a study that examined the usefulness of concept maps for detecting differences in kindergarten teachers' theoretical orientation (whole language versus phonics). Results revealed that content but not structure measures differentiated whole language from phonics teachers. Concept maps proved useful in measuring teachers' theoretical…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Literacy Education
Franklin, Elizabeth Anne – 1984
A naturalistic study of two bilingual first grade classrooms was conducted to gain an increased understanding of the cultural literacy instruction beliefs in society and to better understand the process by which literacy instruction beliefs influence the classroom. One Anglo and one Hispanic teacher working in different midwestern school systems…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
