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Henrikson, Robin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The primary purpose of this study was to determine significant relationships between growth in student learning in mathematics and characteristics of effective teacher professional development and teacher demographics. The goal was to determine whether certain characteristics of professional development, as measured by the Characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
Khan, Uzma Zafar – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The aim of this quantitative study was to investigate elementary principals' beliefs about reformed science teaching and learning, science subject matter knowledge, and how these factors relate to fourth grade students' superior science outcomes. Online survey methodology was used for data collection and included a demographic…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Scientific Attitudes
Clark, Shawn Berry – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between National Board Certification and student achievement in mathematics and reading as measured by an achievement test used in South Carolina. Using the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the study examined the RIT (Rasch Unit) scores of third…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests
Magnuson, Cynthia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the presence of predictors of reading disability in third through fifth grade students. This study used a quantitative methodology to analyze the relationship between the predictor variables of nonword repetition, vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and family history and the criterion variable of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Syntax, Morphology (Languages)
Alivernini, Fabio; Manganelli, Sara; Vinci, Emanuela; Di Leo, Ines – Online Submission, 2010
Questionnaire data from the PIRLS 2006 study in Italy provided a number of indices in order to summarize factors of educational context influencing reading achievement. The aim of the present paper is to study the relationships between school factors, teacher factors, family factors, student factors and reading achievement by means of multilevel…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4