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Ginsburg, Herbert P.; Lee, Young-Sun; Pappas, Sandra – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This paper investigates the power of the computer guided clinical interview (CI) and new curriculum based measurement (CBM) measures to identify and help children at risk of low mathematics achievement. We use data from large numbers of children in Kindergarten through Grade 3 to investigate the construct validity of CBM risk categories. The basic…
Descriptors: Interviews, Curriculum Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, At Risk Students
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Alamar, Amy – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Conversation is a strategy that helps students build reading skills and improve reading comprehension. This study describes the implementation of connection prompts in a 2nd-grade classroom to support students in making predictions, questioning the text, and initiating further conversation. Research suggests that once conversation is initiated,…
Descriptors: Prompting, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Prediction
Hatch, Sherry Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although educators continue to provide all students access to their grade-level curriculum, students with disabilities are not performing academically in accordance with state standards. The purpose of this sequential transformative mixed methods study was to investigate academic and/or behavioral differences between an inclusion classroom and a…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Equal Education, Mixed Methods Research
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Isaksson, Joakim; Lindqvist, Rafael; Bergstrom, Erik – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
One important goal of Swedish educational policies is to integrate all pupils within regular education, irrespective of disability or difficulties in school, and to adjust education to individual needs. The aim of this paper was to explore how schools "socially construct", i.e. identify and support, pupils with special educational needs.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Special Needs Students
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
The study examined children's understanding of scientific inquiry, through the lens of their conceptualization of uncertainty in investigations they had designed and implemented with a partner. These largely student-regulated investigations followed a unit about animal behavior that emphasized the scaffolding of independent inquiry. Participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Inquiry, Animal Behavior, Concept Formation