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Collins, Kristina Henry, Ed.; Roberson, Javetta Jones, Ed.; Piske, Fernanda Hellen Ribeiro, Ed. – Prufrock Press, 2023
This book provides an opportunity for researchers, professionals, and practitioners working directly with gifted individuals to engage with and examine the concept of underachievement of highly capable and talented individuals from different perspectives. Chapters written by experts in gifted education from diverse backgrounds explore…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Gifted Education, Talent, Talent Development
Rachel Schechter; Maddie Lee Mason; Laura Janakiefski – Online Submission, 2024
This study examines the usage and effectiveness of Lexercise, a hybrid reading intervention program combining weekly literacy intervention with structured independent practice, in supporting reading skill development among struggling readers. Analysis of 198 students in grades 2-6 during the 2023-2024 school year revealed strong adherence to the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Justice, Laura M.; Jiang, Hui; Sun, Jing; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Purtell, Kelly; Ansari, Arya; Helsabeck, Nathan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical measurement model representing four proposed dimensions of the classroom ecology in pre-K to third-grade classrooms. The four proposed dimensions of Classroom Composition, Peer Network and Norms, Teacher Practices, and Student Experiences were evaluated using data collected in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Preschool Education, Measurement Techniques
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Terreni, Lisa Gabriella; Loveridge, Judith; Denee, Rachel; Zhou, Jing – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
In this article, we examine how teachers in two kindergartens, one in New Zealand and one in China, used the stimulus of a fictional story combining mythical creatures from Maori and Chinese culture to enhance young children's sense of place and cultural identity. Sociocultural understandings about the role of collaboration and cultural tools in…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Kindergarten, Cross Cultural Studies, Preschool Teachers
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David, Ann D.; Consalvo, Annamary; Grote-Garcia, Stephanie; Burke, Amy; Jansky, Katrina; Semingson, Peggy – English in Texas, 2020
This article discusses the current contradictory policies surrounding the push for phonics instruction in Texas schools. Focusing on this current iteration of the reading wars, this article seeks to help teachers develop a historical context for reading instruction, review existing research on learning to read, and turn that knowledge into…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Phonics, Educational Policy
Susan M. Kowalski; Scott J. Peters; Megan Kuhfeld; Gustave Robinson; Karyn Lewis – NWEA, 2024
This brief continues ongoing research by NWEA® examining the degree to which the COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated school closures, influenced student learning. Prior research focused on math and reading and found that the pandemic's negative impact steadily accumulated during the 2020-2021 school year, with significant disparities in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Papandreou, Maria; Tsiouli, Maria – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Children's everyday mathematics has been well evidenced by a growing body of research and is widely acknowledged as fundamental to meaningful learning in early childhood education. However, literature supports that drawing upon children's mathematical resources for further learning requires that the range of these resources is valued and noticed…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities
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Elaine Chiu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Observation Studies, Unmeasured Confounding, and Sensitivity Analysis: An important part of educational research is identifying important, potentially causal, factors that influence children's learning from observational studies. However, it is well-known that discovering such factors from observational studies can be biased due to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes
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Gray, Shelley; Lancaster, Hope; Alt, Mary; Hogan, Tiffany P.; Green, Samuel; Levy, Roy; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: We investigated four theoretically based latent variable models of word learning in young school-age children. Method: One hundred sixty-seven English-speaking second graders with typical development from three U.S. states participated. They completed five different tasks designed to assess children's creation, storage, retrieval, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Chen, Jing; Lu, Monica; Sun, Jing; Purtell, Kelly; Ansari, Arya; Justice, Laura – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine how classroom language contexts characterized by peer language skills and proportions of dual language learners (DLL) influenced English language development for DLL and non-DLL children. Participants were 2,131 children from 135 classrooms across preschool through Grade 3. Children were classified into…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning