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Agamyrat Altyyev – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the relationship between mastery goal performance and achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test. With policies like the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) placing increased importance on standardized-state assessments, schools are making efforts to improve scores, often by focusing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 3
Bryant, Lastarra – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Even though a school in Southern Virginia had been utilizing a variety of manipulatives, calculators, and computers to transition students through the concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) sequence; students did not meet the state proficiency requirement on the standardized math assessment. A qualitative descriptive case study design, grounded…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Neu, Jessica Adele – ProQuest LLC, 2013
I conducted two studies on the comparative effects of the observation of learn units during (a) reinforcement or (b) correction conditions on the acquisition of math objectives. The dependent variables were the within-session cumulative numbers of correct responses emitted during observational sessions. The independent variables were the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Units of Study, Observational Learning
Smalley, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to compare elementary classroom teachers' actual practice and perceived importance of English Language Arts professional development in five professional development dimensions: alignment, content and modeling, active learning, collaboration, and follow-up, in high and low mastery, low needs schools. The schools…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Educational Practices, Language Arts, Professional Development
LaFramenta, Joanne Jensen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study illuminates the practice of teaching mathematics in depth by developing a framework to serve practicing teachers and those who educate teachers. A thorough reading of the literature that began with all of the volumes in the decades since the publication of the Standards (1989) identified six elements that were profitable for effective…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5
Mendoza, Christine Daryabigi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine a possible relationship between student perceptions of parental involvement and student goal orientation for an ethnically diverse fifth grade elementary population from high-poverty schools. This study was quantitative in nature and employed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) to assess the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Participation, Goal Orientation, Student Diversity