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Ability Grouping in the Early Grades: Long-Term Consequences for Educational Equity in the United States
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Buttaro, Anthony, Jr.; Catsambis, Sophia – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background: Ability grouping has resurged in U.S. schools despite long-standing debates over its consequences for educational equity. Proponents argue that it is the best response to variation in academic skills because it allows teachers to customize the content and pace of instruction to students' diverse needs. Critics answer that this practice…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Equal Education, Reading Instruction, Primary Education
The Relationship among ICT Skills, Traditional Reading Skills and Online Reading Ability
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Liu, I-Fang; Ko, Hwa-Wei – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Perspectives from reading and information fields have identified similar skills belong to two different kind of literacy being online reading abilities and ICT skills. It causes a conflict between two research fields and increase difficult of integrating study results. The purpose of this study was to determine which views are suitable for…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Reading Skills
The Effects of Instruction on Situation Model Construction: An Eye Fixation Study on Text Comprehension in Primary School Children
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van der Schoot, Menno; Horsley, Tako M.; van Lieshout, Ernest C. D. M. – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study examined whether the formation of a situation model can be encouraged by a situation-focused instruction in primary school children. To achieve this, the standard reading-for-comprehension instruction was adapted so that it would emphasise the importance of imagination in narrative text comprehension. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Inferences, Primary Education
Increasing the Reading Achievement of First Graders through School Psychologist, Teacher, Parent and Peer Collaboration.
Gegen, Louis – 1990
To increase the reading achievement of a group of first grade students expected to experience reading difficulties during their first grade year, a practicum study involved the collaboration of a school psychologist with teachers, parents, and fifth graders (in cross age tutoring) to provide services emphasizing holistic, literature-based…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Counselor Teacher Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Early Intervention
Parental Participation in Paired Reading: A Controlled Study.
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Miller, Andrew; And Others – Educational Psychology, 1986
A double-blind controlled study of the effect of paired reading was carried out with 33 failing readers and their parents. After an average time of 7.6 hours of paired reading at home spread over six weeks, the experimental group children made gains of 2.43 months for reading accuracy and 4.36 months for comprehension. (JDH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
Literacy Partners: Teacher Innovation in a Study/Research Group.
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Grisham, Dana L. – 1997
A study/research partnership between university teacher educators and teachers was formed when teachers at the third-, fourth- and fifth-grade levels decided to implement an innovation called Literature Response Groups in their classrooms. The setting was an urban elementary school in northern California. Participants included six elementary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Research, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Students