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National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a study of 15-year-old students' performance in reading, mathematics, and science literacy conducted every 3 years. The PISA 2018 results provide a global view of U.S. students' performance compared to their peers in nearly 80 countries and education systems. By design, PISA aims to…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Achievement Tests
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Diuk, Beatriz; Barreyro, Juan Pablo; Ferroni, Marina; Mena, Milagros; Serrano, Francisca – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Reading difficulties of children growing up in poverty contexts have not received as much attention as those of children from middle-income families. This paper analyzes the reading-related cognitive profiles of Argentine, Spanish-speaking, low-SES children with reading difficulties (RD), by comparing them with chronological age- (CA) and reading…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Processes, Profiles
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Banegas, Darío Luis – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
The current English Language Teaching (ELT) global coursebook market has embraced content and language integrated learning (CLIL) as a weak form of bilingual education and an innovative component to include in General English coursebooks for EFL contexts. In this paper, I investigate how CLIL is included in ELT coursebooks aimed at young learners,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lipina, Sebastián; Segretin, Soledad; Hermida, Julia; Prats, Lucía; Fracchia, Carolina; Camelo, Jorge López; Colombo, Jorge – Developmental Science, 2013
Tests of attentional control, working memory, and planning were administered to compare the non-verbal executive control performance of healthy children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition, mediations of several sociodemographic variables, identified in the literature as part of the experience of child poverty, between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Cognitive Development, Attention
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Stein, Alejandra; Borzone, Ana Maria – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary that these children are exposed to daily with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Young Children
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Banfi, Cristina S. – ELT Journal, 2003
One English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher describes how she encourages students to extend their reading skills by undertaking a range of tasks that lead to the production of a portfolio of work connected with a particular title. Provides an overview of the work carried out over a period of 3 years with seven groups of students at university and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Beall, Kathleen R., Ed. – ESL Magazine, 2002
These six issues contain the following articles: "The Bright Side of the U.S. Teacher Shortage" (Thomas Nixon); "Sharing Power in the Classroom" (Patricia Richard-Amato); "Content for Conversation Partners" (Kathleen Olson); "English Language Teaching in Indonesia" (Bachrudin Musthafa); "Working to Make…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, American Indians, Check Lists, Computer Software