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Darla Jean Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was focused on adult English language learners (ELLs) that described their experiences with language acquisition in an elementary, middle, or high school in the United States. The problem addressed in this qualitative descriptive study was that public schools were unable to handle the academic inadequacies of ELLs as well as the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Larson, Tiffany R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
National and state-based assessments have been a common practice for the past several decades. These assessments often come with high-stake consequences for students and schools, which tends towards the creation of a test-centric environment where educators prioritize test-based instruction to prepare students to be successful on those…
Descriptors: Models, School Districts, High Stakes Tests, Test Preparation
Moran, Renee M. R.; Hong, Huili; Keith, Karin J.; Fisher, Stacey; Wood, LaShay – Critical Questions in Education, 2022
This paper focuses on the relationship between policy creation and policy enactment through the use of an innovative qualitative research methodology, photo elicitation. Teachers applying Common Core State Standards were studied in two states through indepth interviews, photographs captured by the participants, and other artifacts. Findings…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Photography, Researchers
Phipps, Aaron – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Using administrative data from D.C. Public Schools, I use exogenous variation in the presence and intensity of teacher monitoring to show it significantly improves student test scores and reduces suspensions. Uniquely, my setting allows me to separately identify the effect of pre-evaluation monitoring from post-evaluation feedback. Monitoring's…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Public Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Accountability
Roegman, Rachel; Kenney, Rachael; Maeda, Yukiko; Johns, Gary – Educational Policy, 2021
This case study examines how district administrators and high school mathematics and science teachers use data in instructional decision making and what challenges they face in the current accountability context. Findings reveal unique aspects of data use directly related to a high school setting within the context of test-based accountability and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Policy, Decision Making, High School Students
Obondo, Margaret Akinyi – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
This study focuses on teachers of new arrival migrant pupils in a provincial school district in mid-Sweden. The paper draws from qualitative interviews with these teachers and extracts from lessons of as well as written reflections of these lessons. The study explores the teachers' perspectives and pedagogical responses to newcomer migrants in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Prensky, Marc – Educational Leadership, 2013
Technology is an extension of the brain; it is a new way of thinking. It is the solution humans have created to deal with the difficult new context of variability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Wise integration of evolving and powerful technology demands a rethinking of the curriculum. This article discusses technology as the new way of…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods, Curriculum
Adams, Wendy K.; Willis, Courtney – Physics Teacher, 2015
People find it easier to learn about topics that interest them. Recent neuroscience research has demonstrated that memory is improved when learning material about which we are curious. Therefore teaching in the context of what students are interested in should result in improved learning. How do we figure out what our students are curious about?…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Neurosciences, Memory
Bryant, Karen Adair Carter – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Federal and state educational agencies provide guidelines for public schools across the United States to follow (Linn, 2008; Levy, 2008). During a time of high-stakes testing fueled by school accountability standards, educators strive to meet requirements for academic growth in order to maintain a successful accountability level and avoid being…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teaching Methods, Public Schools, Test Preparation
Vecellio, Shawn – Schools: Studies in Education, 2013
In this article the author examines the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to argue for changes in "standards-based" perspectives and practices that grew out of No Child Left Behind. Drawing on an article by David T. Conley, cochairman of the Validation Committee for the CCSS, the author offers a new model for the professional…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach
Yin, Xinying – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this collaborative action research was to understand how science educators can negotiate the tension between integrating formative assessment (FA) for students' learning and meeting the need for standardized summative assessment (testing) from a critical perspective. Using formative assessment in the era of accountability testing…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Accountability, Standardized Tests
Smilkstein, Rita – Corwin, 2011
This updated edition of the bestselling book on the brain's natural learning process brings new research results and applications in a power-packed teacher tool kit. Rita Smilkstein shows teachers how to create and deliver curricula that help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be. Updated features…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Curriculum Development, Brain, Creative Thinking
Hollingworth, Liz; Drake, Hilleary M. – Corwin, 2011
"Teach Reading, Not Testing" reinforces what teachers already know--test preparation worksheets and drill-and-kill activities do not make children into lifelong readers. The authors' conscientious approach to reading instruction combines an insider perspective on the development of high-stakes tests with classroom experience in achieving…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Research
Schroeder-Davis, Stephen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2011
Currently, American schooling, driven by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and standardized tests, emphasizes development of intelligence. Because of this, teachers must heavily emphasize acquisition of foundational information (facts) in lectures, assessments, and of course, time-consuming test preparation, at the expense of intellect, that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, State Standards, Teaching Methods, Standardized Tests
Hendricks, Jacquelyn Kaye – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Student performance on critical-thinking applications on standardized tests in a southwestern U.S. state has been low for several years. The purpose of this instrumental case study was to explore how one school district prepared students for critical-thinking applications on standardized tests. The study was informed by cognitivism and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Standardized Tests, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
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