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Domina, Thurston; Penner, Andrew M.; Penner, Emily K.; Conley, AnneMarie – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Across the United States, secondary school curricula are intensifying as a growing proportion of students enroll in high-level academic math courses. In many districts, this intensification process occurs as early as eighth grade, where schools are effectively constraining their mathematics curricula by restricting course…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, School Districts
Ajayi, Lasisi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
Despite the significance of vocabulary knowledge to student learning, limited studies have examined English language arts (ELA) teachers' skills and practices that may be effective for building word consciousness in high school Mexican-American bilingual students. The research objective of the present study is to examine how two high school ELA…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Mexican Americans, Bilingual Students, Secondary School Teachers
Arya, Diana J.; Maul, Andrew – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
In an experimental study (N = 209), the authors compared the effects of exposure to typical middle-school written science content when presented in the context of the scientific discovery narrative and when presented in a more traditional nonnarrative format on 7th and 8th grade students in the United States. The development of texts was…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Science Instruction, Predictor Variables, Grade 8
Con Carino: Teacher Caring, Math Self-Efficacy, and Math Achievement among Hispanic English Learners
Lewis, James L.; Ream, Robert K.; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Cardullo, Richard A.; Hammond, Kimberly A.; Fast, Lisa A. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: How do we account for the persistence of below-average math test score performance among California Hispanics who are fluent in English, as well as Spanish-dominant English learners? Recent studies have attributed the problem to an overly rigid focus on "what works" in curriculum and fluency in English to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Tests