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Early, Jessica Singer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
This article shares a study of an interview/writing project for adolescent girls, which was a component of the Girls Writing Science Project at a diverse urban high school in the Southwestern United States. The group of high school girls planned, initiated, conducted, and wrote interview profiles of women scientists from their local community.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Writing (Composition), Females, Urban Schools
Gilliland, Betsy – L2 Journal, 2018
Ivan (pseudonym), the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers, rarely spent more than six months in the same school and by high school was still classified as an English language learner. This article traces Ivan's experiences as a language learner and writer, telling his story in his own words through his writing and ethnographic data collected during…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Literacy, English Language Learners, Mexican American Education
Lammers, Jayne C.; Marsh, Valerie L. – Written Communication, 2018
This article reconsiders theoretical claims of identity fluidity, stability, and agency through a longitudinal case study investigating one adolescent's writing over time and across spaces. Qualitative data spanning her four years of high school were collected and analyzed using a grounded theory approach with literacy-and-identity theory…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Adolescents, Writing (Composition)
Furness, Rachelle K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Clarifying the concept of digital college readiness (DCR) can direct pedagogical and policy shifts toward the integration of digital literacies instruction as an essential component of college readiness, especially for educators and researchers in the field of developmental education. Since the 1980s, the demands for digitally mediated literacies…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Case Studies, High School Graduates, Student Attitudes
Hales, Patrick D. – Cogent Education, 2017
Student voice is a difficult concept to capture in research. This study attempts to provide a vehicle for understanding student perceptions about writing and writing instruction through a case study supported by discourse analysis of student talk. The high school students in this study participated in interviews and focus groups about their…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Case Studies
Varlejs, Jana; Stec, Eileen – School Library Research, 2014
Despite the considerable attention paid to the need to increase the information literacy of high school students in preparation for the transition to college, poor research skills still seem to be the norm. To gain insight into the problem, library instruction environments of nineteen high schools were explored. The schools were selected based on…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, High School Students, High School Graduates, Information Skills
Nivera, Gladys C. – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2017
A mathematical investigation (MI) encapsulates the reform movement in mathematics education by addressing content and process simultaneously and providing a novel opportunity for students to develop thinking skills and good mental habits. However, introducing MI to teachers and students who are used to routinised teaching approaches and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, High School Students
Adams, Benedict Lazarus – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2017
This study entailed understanding how urban teachers supported a population of immigrant students (from non-English speaking countries) and English Language Leaners (ELLs) as well as how teachers made sense of and carried out instruction for this group of students in an urban classroom. The author's ultimate goal as a teacher educator was to…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Immigrants, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
Heather Hurst – English Journal, 2015
This article describes how adolescent students learn to question their lives and contexts through the "Crossing Boundaries" podcast assignment. In the assignment, the students pick a topic, design a project, interview at least one other individual, and analyze their data. The students do not realize they are engaging in original…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Programming (Broadcast), Assignments, Data Analysis
Swanson, Lauren Honeycutt; Bianchini, Julie A.; Lee, Jin Sook – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study documents how an urban high school science teacher engaged her English Language Learners (ELLs) in the discourse-intensive science and engineering practices of (1) arguing from evidence and (2) obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. The teacher taught an introductory integrated science course to classes with a large…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Science Education, Science Teachers
Szczesiul, Stacy Agee; Nehring, James; Carey, Theodore – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
Drawing on theoretical and empirical research concerning the relationship between academic work and student learning, this article explores the following questions: What skills are required to execute the academic tasks teachers assign on a daily basis? How do teachers and administrators interpret the task demands represented in instructional…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Skill Development, Learning, Instructional Materials
Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Harris, Lauren McArthur; Aponte Martinez, Gerardo; Frasier, Amanda Slaten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This mixed methods study explores how high school students (N = 35) enrolled in a US charter school with a high Latino/a population perform on and perceive (in terms of interest and relevance) document-based type historical reasoning tasks: one about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and the other about the experiences of Mexicans and Mexican Americans…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, High School Students, Charter Schools, United States History
Hoffman, Adria R. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore smartness and talent as social constructs. Drawing on Holland et al.'s (1998) figured identities, this article explores the figuring of abilities by elucidating the voices of African American high school chorus students. Critical Race Theory (CRT) helps to unpack normalized language and practices that…
Descriptors: Talent, Intelligence, Ability, Race
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
Shaffer, Shelly – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
This article describes a qualitative case study, conducted at a high school in the Southwestern United States, that follows a veteran teacher as he develops and implements a two-week unit on "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald using flipped classroom methods. The researcher collected data while the teacher used this method for the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Blended Learning