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Stoll, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The "college readiness" movement of the past decade coupled with the widespread adoption of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has generated pressure on content area teachers to develop disciplinary thinking skills while also providing more opportunities for student writing. The purpose of this three-article dissertation is to understand…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Intellectual Disciplines
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Romero, Yanilis; Manjarres, Milton Pájaro – English Language Teaching, 2016
This research study examines the assumptions of creating bilingual scenarios to promote English language learning for 384 students of ninth, tenth and eleventh grade of a public school in Monteria Colombia. An action research methodology was carried out in this study. The findings of this research suggested that the creation of bilingual scenarios…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Design, Vignettes, Grade 9
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Kaplan, Avi; Lichtinger, Einat; Margulis, Michal – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background: Common conceptions of motivation and self-regulation view them as related but distinct entities. Most research on motivation and self-regulation investigates quantitative relations between level (e.g., self-efficacy) or type of motivation (e.g., mastery goals) and level of self-regulation. Purpose: Alternatively, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Rojas Álvarez, Gloria – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
We report an action research project developed with ninth grade students of a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, and which focused on innovating English communication through writing blogs. The project took into account the implementation of a specific blog that proposes activities, suggestions, strategies and links, among other things, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Grade 9, Public Schools
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Myhill, Debra – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
This article reports on an Economic and Social Research Council-funded study into secondary-aged writers' compositional processes, both as observed in a naturalistic classroom setting and as gathered through post hoc reflections. The sample comprised 38 children drawn from Year 9 and Year 11 who were observed, using an annotated timeline,…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Time Factors (Learning), Writing (Composition), Writing Processes