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Direct linkAnderson, Karen; Kochan, Frances; Kensler, Lisa A. W.; Reames, Ellen H. – Journal of School Leadership, 2018
This study examined the relationships between enabling structures, academic optimism, and student achievement to determine whether academic optimism served as a mediator between the two. Student achievement was measured using both criterion-referenced and norm-referenced tests. Findings indicated a relationship between academic optimism, enabling…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Positive Attitudes, Criterion Referenced Tests
Download full textAdlof, Suzanne; Frishkoff, Gwen; Dandy, Jennifer; Perfetti, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
Word learning can build the high-quality word representations that support skilled reading and language comprehension. According to the partial knowledge hypothesis, words that are partially known, a.k.a. "frontier words" (Durso & Shore, 1991), may be good targets for instruction precisely because they are already familiar. However,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Adults, Children
Kiesling, Herbert J. – 1971
This report describes a study of the relationship of instructional process and program organization to pupils' learning in Title I compensatory education projects, as measured by the Stanford Reading Test. This is the first attempt to apply economic input/output methodology to compensatory education. Personnel in 42 projects in 37 California…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Learning Processes, Program Evaluation, Reading Improvement
Rosner, Jerome – 1973
A research project introduced changes into the kindergarten and 1st grade instructional programs of a developmental school. The purposes were to implement an adaptive instructional system which would teach children the basic psychological processes relevant to 1st grade reading and math achievement and which would accommodate individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Grade 1
HAYES, ROBERT B.; WUEST, RICHARD C. – 1966
FOUR DIFFERENT READING PROGRAMS WERE EVALUATED USING 302 SECOND-GRADE PUPILS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE SAME PROGRAMS IN GRADE 1. IN ADDITION TO THE STUDY CONDUCTED IN THE SECOND GRADE, A PILOT STUDY WAS CONTINUED INTO GRADE 3, AND A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE GRADE 1 STUDY WAS MADE AGAIN IN GRADE 1. THE FOUR READING PROGRAMS INVOLVED WERE (1) A…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Filmstrips
Shapiro, Martin M.; And Others – 1970
Learning behavior of young children of contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds is examined in this study, which poses the question: what are the necessary or sufficient environmental conditions for the establishment of identifiable patterns of behavior? Socioeconomic level (SEL), the principal independent variable, was defined in terms of parental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Disadvantaged Youth
Wills, Linda – 1990
For this practicum, a program of multimedia peer dramatic presentations was developed to improve the vocabulary skills of middle school students. Each week for 10 weeks a target group of 18 randomly selected students viewed 5 short video skits (produced by broadcast arts students) which were designed to introduce and define new vocabulary terms;…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes
Chalker, Rhoda N.; Horns, Virginia – 1986
This study tested the hypothesis that there is no significant difference in reading achievement among children in grades 2 through 5 related to family structure. Researchers administered the Stanford Achievement Test to 119 students in an Alabama city suburban school system. Of the sample, 69 children lived in intact families and 50 lived in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Structure, Latchkey Children
Carson, Katharine W. – 1975
This evaluation report is a description of an English as a Second Language (ESL) program for non English speaking disadvantaged students whose ability to read and write in their native tongue or English was not adequate to permit school success. The program was funded under the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I. The purpose of the program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, English (Second Language)
