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Thinking Levels of Questions in Christian Reading Textbooks
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Lee, Heather A. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2015
If Christian schools desire students to achieve higher-level thinking, then the textbooks that teachers use should reflect such thinking. Using Risner's (1987) methodology, raters classified questions from two Christian publishers' fifth grade reading textbooks based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson et al., 2001). The questions in the A…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Textbooks, Thinking Skills
The Impact on Student Achievement Following Professional Development on the Principles of Formative Assessment
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DeNome, Evonne C. – Online Submission, 2015
This quantitative study reviews the impact on student achievement following professional development on the principles of formative assessment. The study compared mathematics and reading performance data from student populations with teachers who received training in formative assessment to performance data from student populations with teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Hypothesis Testing
In School Settings, Are All RCTs (Randomized Control Trials) Exploratory?
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Newman, Denis; Jaciw, Andrew P. – Empirical Education Inc., 2012
The motivation for this paper is the authors' recent work on several randomized control trials in which they found the primary result, which averaged across subgroups or sites, to be moderated by demographic or site characteristics. They are led to examine a distinction that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) makes between "confirmatory"…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Design, Classification
Divided Timed and Continuous Timed Assessment Protocols and Academic Performance
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Perucca, David. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Children from a low socioeconomic status (SES) are exposed to numerous stress factors that are negatively associated with sustained attention and academic performance. This association suggests that the timed component of lengthy assessments may be unfair for students from such backgrounds, as they may have an inability to sustain attention during…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Status
The Influence of In-Situational Coaching on the Reading Success of English Language Learners
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Hernandez, Esteban F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of in-situational coaching on the reading success of English Language Learners. This study was conducted using a quantitative research design to analyze summative assessment data related to the reading success of English Language Learners in a sample from an identified population.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Reading Instruction, English Language Learners, Statistical Analysis
Informational Text Comprehension: Its Challenges and How Collaborative Strategic Reading Can Help
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McCown, Margaret Averill; Thomason, Gina B. – Reading Improvement, 2014
With the increased emphasis on informational text with Common Core State Standards and the difficulty many students have with this type of text, this study examined the effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on informational text comprehension and metacognitive awareness of fifth grade students. Participating students included a…
Descriptors: State Standards, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, Reading Strategies