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Banks, Tachelle; Eaton, India – Preventing School Failure, 2014
Preparing at-risk youth and students with mild disabilities for state and district tests is important for improving their test performance, and basic instruction in test preparation can significantly improve student test performance. The article defines noncognitive variables that adversely affect test-taker performance. The article also describes…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, At Risk Students, Test Wiseness, Test Coaching
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Kontovourki, Stavroula – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
This article highlights the complexity of becoming a reader in public school classrooms, by describing the ways students' reading bodies constituted the sites and discursive means for the performance of diverse reader identities. Drawing on sociocultural literacy and post-structural performance theories to suggest the notion of embodied…
Descriptors: Poetry, Learning Theories, Reading, Ethnography