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Correnti, Richard; Matsumura, Lindsay Clare; Hamilton, Laura S.; Wang, Elaine – Educational Assessment, 2012
Guided by evidence that teachers contribute to student achievement outcomes, researchers have been reexamining how to study instruction and the classroom opportunities teachers create for students. We describe our experience measuring students' opportunities to develop analytic, text-based writing skills. Utilizing multiple methods of data…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Skill Development, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality
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Wilson, Nance; Dasho, Stefan; Martin, Anna C.; Wallerstein, Nina; Wang, Caroline C.; Minkler, Meredith – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project is an afterschool empowerment program and research project for underserved early adolescents. Central to YES! is an empowerment intervention that provides early adolescents with opportunities for civic engagement with other youth around issues of shared concern in their schools and neighborhoods.…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Empowerment, Neighborhoods