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Forte, Edmund J. – 1975
This dissertation investigates the effect of an individualized remedial reading and mathematics program (the Philadelphia Checkpoint Center Program) on the self concept of low achieving third-grade children. In the program, children received individualized, diagnostic and prescriptive instruction for 40 minutes daily in groups of 15 or fewer. In…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Objectives, Grade 3
Sheldon, William D.; And Others – 1969
This collection of research reviews summarizes investigations in the English language arts on the elementary and secondary levels. The 76 elementary education research studies discussed were drawn from 55 journals, from January 1968 to December 1968, and are grouped in the following areas: summaries and listings of research, language, oral…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Elementary Education
Matluck, Joseph H.; Mace-Matluck, Betty – 1976
The Multilingual Test Development Project, recently completed in Seattle, Washington, has yielded a series of comparable oral proficiency tests in six languages designed for use with elementary school children, K-6. Extensive field-testing of the English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Ilokano tests was conducted with a research sample…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Education
Gustafson, Louise; McConnell, Beverly – 1975
Begun in 1969, Follow Through has provided the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana the experience of actual management responsibility for a school-age program. Operating in kindergarten through third grade, the program also represents the first school-age program in which funds have been channeled through the Tribal Council instead of directly to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advisory Committees, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
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Gentile, Lance M.; McMillan, Merna M. – Reading Teacher, 1987
Notes that poor readers often equate reading difficulty with failure and exhibit stress reactions, and suggests that teachers take these feelings into account to help with remediation. (JC)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary Education, Goal Orientation, Learning Problems
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Morris, Beth S. K.; Gerstman, Louis J. – Language Learning, 1986
Measures of retention of a Hawaiian lesson given to fourth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh-graders (N=182) indicated that fourth-graders had poorer retention than the other students, while seventh and eighth-graders exceeded eleventh-graders on some tasks, suggesting that second language learning capacity cannot be defined in terms of age alone.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
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Roberts, Donald F.; And Others – Communication Research: An International Quarterly, 1984
Examines the relationship between television viewing and reading achievement within a framework of television and reading constructs such as media availability and parental media behavior, children's use of print and broadcast media and measures of their attitudes and orientation toward television and print. Includes the questionnaire. (PD)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Family Environment
Chambers, Jay G.; Kidron, Yael; Spain, Angeline K. – American Institutes for Research, 2004
Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), school districts are required to meet the educational needs of all students with disabilities. However, school districts struggle to provide adequate services to students with disabilities who have extraordinary needs and require unusually high expenditures to meet those…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Ethnicity, Educational Needs, Construct Validity
Linn, Robert L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2005
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is praiseworthy for the special attention it gives to improved learning for children who have been ignored or left behind in the past. The emphasis on closing the achievement gap is certainly commendable, as is the encouragement given to states to adopt ambitious subject matter standards and enhance teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Accountability, Federal Legislation
Trainin, Guy – Online Submission, 2005
This report outlines the results from the Nebraska's Reading First initiative. Three thousand six hundred students from Kindergarten to Third grade were included in the project. Results indicated significant growth across all demographic groups. Student performance in the earlier grades has shown great promise for the following years. Growth in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, State Programs, Reading Programs, Annual Reports
Notari, Angela – 1996
Effects of instruction in phonemic awareness during preschool and/or kindergarten on the metalinguistic development and subsequent reading achievement of young children with disabilities were investigated in this project. The main focus of study combined a longitudinal and experimental design in which 79 preschool children with disabilities…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1997
The end-of-grade component of the North Carolina Testing Program was implemented in 1992-93 in response to state legislation. The end-of-grade tests emphasize higher-order thinking skills and the ability of students to solve real-life types of problems. These tests also reflect the higher standards set forth in national curriculum standards for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups
Hausken, Elvira Germino; Brimhall, DeeAnn; Pollack, Judy – 2001
Noting the importance of kindergarten for establishing skills critical for school success, especially for today's diverse kindergartners who differ in the extent and types of early care and educational experiences they have had prior to kindergarten, this study focused on the gains in reading skills made by language minority and mainstream…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment, Full Day Half Day Schedules
Padak, Nancy D., Ed.; Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; Peck, Jacqueline K., Ed.; Church, Brenda Weible, Ed.; Fawcett, Gay, Ed.; Hendershot, Judith M., Ed.; Henry, Justina M., Ed.; Moss, Barbara G., Ed.; Pryor, Elizabeth, Ed.; Roskos, Kathleen A., Ed.; Baumann, James F., Ed.; Dillon, Deborah R., Ed.; Hopkins, Carol J., Ed.; Humphrey, Jack W., Ed.; O'Brien, David G., Ed. – 2000
Drawing from the popular "Distinguished Educator" series of articles in the journal "The Reading Teacher," this book presents 33 essays by respected scholars in nearly every field of reading research and instruction. In addition to the original articles, almost all featured educators have included a professional biography written especially for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Literacy, Reading Achievement
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