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Lillie, Karen E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This study examines Arizona's restrictive language policy from the perspective of English learners (ELs) and reclassified fluent English proficient students who have been enrolled in the structured English immersion (SEI) model. While multiple scholars in the USA have analyzed Arizona's policy impact since its enactment in 2008, none to date have…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, State Policy
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Lazarev, Valeriy; Newman, Denis; Sharp, Alyssa – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2014
This study explored the relationships among the components of the Arizona Department of Education's new teacher evaluation model, with a particular focus on the extent to which ratings from the state model's teacher observation instrument differentiated higher and lower performance. The study used teacher-level evaluation data collected by the…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Observation, State Departments of Education, Correlation
Sindel-Arrington, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the use of Internet online polling at a suburban junior high school as a means for decision makers to systematically acquire student perceptions about local conditions of learning. Federal and state mandates result in curricular, instructional, evaluative, and organizational changes that affect students' conditions of learning.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Time Management, Grade 8, Internet
Larson, Elizabeth Hunt; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 2000
Arizona seventh-grade students were polled in 1997, 1998, and 1999, to determine the extent of their participation in career awareness and exploration activities, the impact that the activities have had, and how they were delivered. Survey results provided evidence of systemic change in the regional school-to-work (STW) partnerships. Further, data…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis
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Lawrenz, Frances – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
This study compared the classroom environments as perceived by fourth-grade, seventh-grade and high school boys and girls in classes taught by males and females to determine if any perceptual differences existed. The analyses showed no differences for fourth-grade students, one for seventh-grade students, and three for high school students.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4
Bodiroga, Ronald, Comp.; And Others
The short stories, poems, songs, and cultural descriptions about American Indians (volume 2 of two) are the result of a combined effort of the 7th grade students of Rice School District (Sacaton, Arizona), their teacher, and the parents and friends of the students of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation (Arizona). The 24 student contributors…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Animal Behavior
Vandegrift, Judith A.; Larson, Elizabeth Hunt – 1997
A survey ascertained whether Arizona seventh-grade students perceived themselves to have participated in and benefited from career awareness, exploration, and counseling activities. In total, 2,349 seventh-grade students participated in the survey administered in spring 1997 after one full year of school-to-work (STW) regional funding. Students…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Education Work Relationship
Larson, Elizabeth Hunt; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1998
In spring 1998, 1,020 seventh-grade students were surveyed as one component of a statewide evaluation of Arizona's school-to-work system designed by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. This second survey measured attitudes toward and participation in career activities. Results were compared to baseline data collected from over 2,000…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis