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Brown, Byron W.; Saks, Daniel H. – 1978
Elements of economic production theory are applied to the relation between time and student learning. The analysis takes into account that individual students matter, that students are often taught in classes, and that jointness in production is the rule rather than the exception. The values teachers place on the different possible educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Economics
Download full textFielden, Frank, Ed. – Of Primary Interest, 1999
This document is comprised of four consecutive issues (Winter 1998-Fall 1999) of a newsletter published quarterly to provide information on current research and practice to early childhood professionals teaching in the primary grades in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Montana. The winter 1998 issue focuses on retention in the early grades,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Emergent Literacy, Grade Repetition, Grade 1
Crawford, John – Journal of Research and Evaluation of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1983
The purpose of this study was to identify effective and ineffective strategies for teaching Title I students. The data collection took the form of direct observations of teacher-student interactions and classroom activities in the classes of 79 Oklahoma City Public Schools Title I teachers. The data on achievement gains came from the California…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral disserations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) an instructional program for enhancing teachers' knowledge of resources in children's literature; (2) behaviors indicating teacher enthusiasm; (3) the "relate"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: (1) the composing process of adult basic writing students; (2) an integrated approach to reading and writing for college students; (3) the teaching and learning of reading in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: (1) a hierarchy of purposes for reading assignments applied to secondary school social studies; (2) the effects of sentence combining practice on reading comprehension; (3) the effects of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading
Weiss, Suzanne – Progress of Education Reform 1999-2001, 1999
Research shows that children who are not proficient readers by the end of third grade perform poorly in other subjects and have difficulties throughout the course of their schooling. The knowledge exists to teach all but a small percentage of students to become proficient readers. Despite this knowledge, a troubling number of children do not learn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1992
This document consists of the two issues (1/2 and 3/4) of the Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching published during 1992. Articles in these issues include: "Hemispheric Preference, Intelligence and Creative Interests" (John W. Zimmer, David Guip, Dean L. Meinke, Dennis J. Hocevar); "Reading Test Anxiety with the Swish"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Achievement Gains, Anxiety
LAB Education Notes, 1999
This focused newsletter features articles about reading, reading research, and teaching reading. The newsletter's lead article, "The Challenge of Improving Reading," enumerates the problems that schools and families can encounter when trying to raise student performance in reading. Another article in the newsletter, "The Longest…
Descriptors: Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy, National Competency Tests
Successful Reading Instruction: Reports and Recommendations from a National Invitational Conference.
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – LSS Review, 2002
Within the context of President Bush's Reading First and Early Reading First initiatives to improve early literacy skills for preschool children and reading literacy skills for primary children, a national invitational conference on successful reading instruction was held in Washington, DC, on November 12-13, 2001. It focused on determining how…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Literacy, Preschool Education, Primary Education
NCREL's Learning Point, 1999
This theme issue of the NCREL's (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's) "Learning Point" focuses on how reading engages children. The cover story article is an interview (Marianne Kroeger and Stephanie Blaser) with Mary Foertsch, from NCREL, on what types of innovative strategies teachers employ to help students become engaged readers. A…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews, Mathematics Instruction
Ahead of the Curve, 1990
Presenting information from school projects, interviews, workshops, conference sessions, newsletters, conference review reports, and technological developments, this series of four project information updates reports on a variety of issues relating to student achievement. The first update reports some recent work in facilitating student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of a remedial reading program upon reading attitude, reading achievement, self-concept, and intellectual achievement responsibility; (2) a reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Compensatory Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Balkcom, Stephen – Education Research Consumer Guide, 1992
Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Typical cooperative learning strategies used in grades 2 through 12 involve student teams in which students: (1) work on group projects that emphasize…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Relations
Campbell, Jay – NAEP Facts, 1997
According to results of the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), teachers of fourth- and eighth-grade students were using a variety of assessment methods to measure their students' progress in reading. At both grades, teachers' reports indicated that in comparison with multiple-choice questions, written paragraphs were used…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4, Grade 8
