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Curtis Jones; Marlo Reeves; Dongmei Li – School Community Journal, 2023
Future Forward is an early elementary literacy program which, through a family-school-community partnership approach, integrates one-on-one tutoring and family engagement to support literacy development at school and at home. In the 2020-21 school year, as part of an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Mid-Phase grant, the impact of a modified…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergent Literacy
Robinson, Shaquanah – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore elementary school teachers' perceptions of their level of confidence and preparation for implementing Common Core State Standards in Alabama. The researcher used NVivo to identify common themes among the responses of the participants. The results of this study indicated five major themes:…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Chandran, Katie Busch; Haynie, Kathy C.; Tawbush, Rachael; Wyss, J. Michael – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
A year of COVID-19 quarantine required educators to switch from in-person to virtual learning platforms, causing a dramatic reimagining of their daily praxis. Their experiences are likely to influence new norms for K-12 education. While virtual learning can be effective, student engagement, student retention, and student attention can be…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Rice, Tameka Shamery – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The effectiveness of the Instructional Partnership Network (IPN), a collaborative initiative that provides professional development to school principals, has not been previously measured. An investigation of the impact of this state initiative on teacher efficacy, teacher trust in colleagues and teacher trust in the principal was conducted. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Administrator Relationship, Principals
Granthum, Celeste Faulkner – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study was conducted to investigate perspectives of upper elementary mathematics teachers on the Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards, the Common Core State Standards for Alabama. Participants in this study were six mathematics teachers from one school in a large school system in Alabama. Two third grade teachers, two fourth grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Townsend, Ashley C. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2013
In the last few years, peer programs have grown in popularity around the country, supported by a growing body of research and the rewards of seeing teenagers' lives changed. Elementary peer programs, with their different set of typical issues, schedule demands, and personnel availability, are certainly different from their middle- and high-school…
Descriptors: Peer Mediation, Rewards, Grade 5, Program Effectiveness
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Parmer, Sondra M.; Parmer, Greg; Struempler, Barb – Journal of Extension, 2012
Using clickers to gauge student understanding in large classrooms is well documented. Less well known is the effectiveness of using clickers with youth for test taking in large-scale Extension programs. This article describes the benefits and challenges of collecting evaluation data using clickers with a third-grade population participating in a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Audience Response Systems, Research Methodology, Technology Uses in Education
Ladnier-Hicks, Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine if third grade reading performance of students enrolled in south Mobile County Title I schools improved as a result of the first year implementation of the Scott Foresman "Reading Street" program. Attempts were also made to identify predictors that may improve future reading performance and data…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Development, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement
Lindsey, Kathleen W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine if differences in elementary reading comprehension achievement existed as a result of statewide implementation of the Alabama Reading Initiative post No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Research supports the premise that targeted instruction in reading comprehension yields increases in reading achievement for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Jones, Debra Hughes; Rudo, Zena – SEDL, 2008
SEDL is providing analytic and technical support to three large-scale randomized controlled trials assessing the efficacy of promising literacy curriculum in afterschool settings on student academic achievement. In the field of educational research, competition among research organizations and researchers can often impede collaborative efforts in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Researchers, Academic Achievement, Evaluation