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Seah, Lay Hoon; Clarke, David J.; Hart, Christina E. – Science Education, 2011
This study attends to the possibilities of analyzing students' writings at a lexicogrammatical level in terms of their use of linguistic resources, and the insights afforded by this approach into the challenges students faced when they employed the language of school science related to the phenomenon of expansion. For the purpose of this study,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Grade 7
O'Hara, Jane A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Collective Teacher Efficacy and minority student achievement gap over and above that explained by socioeconomics, school size, and prior achievement gaps for Black and Hispanic students with White students. Forty-seven Virginia middle schools were selected to participate in the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Middle Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement