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Download full textDillow, Sally, Ed. – Education Statistics Quarterly, 2003
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue contains short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications, data product, and funding opportunities developed over a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, International Studies
Fielden, 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
Boy, Nancy Omaha, Ed. – Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching, 1998
This document comprises the entire output for the journal for 1998. The first article is in the form of a modified excerpt from an article by Donna I. Ali of the University of Calgary on "Multiple Intelligences and the Writing Process: Some Implications for Teaching." The article investigates why writing is difficult for some and easy for others,…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Education, Cognitive Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction
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
Fleischner, Jeannette, Ed. – Forum, 1980
Eight articles report on findings of the five Research Institutes in Learning Disabilities. T. Bryan reports on "The Chicago Institute for Learning Disabilities" with findings concerning children's conversational skills, how children account for success and failure, children's ingratiation tactics, children who forget quickly, and children's…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Underwood, Siobhan; Lumsden, Linda S. – Research Roundup, 1994
The items featured in this annotated bibliography touch on several aspects of the multifaceted class-size debate. Allen Odden reviews the literature and contends that class-size reduction should be used "sparingly and strategically." C. M. Achilles and colleagues examines two different class-size situations and find student test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness
Adams, Thomasenia L. – Florida Education Research Council Research Bulletin, 1994
Algebra students typically pay little attention to choosing appropriate domains, ranges and scales of axes for graphing functions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of introducing an assignment and employing the graphing calculator to examine and alleviate students' difficulties regarding the selection of appropriate domains,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Functions (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators, Mathematics Achievement
Hartley, Bruce Alan – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1983
The effects of directed positive imagery on performance by trainable mentally handicapped (TMH) students on a numeral naming task were explored. Ss were 43 TMH students ages 7-21 (IQ 33-54) having adequate auditory and visual acuities, and understandable speech. Between pretest and posttest, in which all Ss were required to identify and name…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Secondary Education, Imagery, Moderate Mental Retardation
Simpson, Mary; Ure, Jenny – 1994
Differentiation practices are defined by the Scottish Office Education Department as the identification of, and effective provision for, a range of abilities in one classroom, such that pupils in a particular class need not study the same things at the same pace and in the same way at all times. This issue of the "Interchange" describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
Watts, Michelle R. – Florida Educational Research Council Research Bulletin, 1993
Thirty-three primary teachers were trained in the 1989 Standards for School Mathematics to study the relationship between the implementation of alternative assessment and such variables as: teacher grading orientation, class size, grade level, and student mathematical ability. Teachers were found to use knowledge level items significantly more…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Achievement
Research in the Schools, 1999
This journal publishes articles that focus on the results of applied educational research, scholarly reviews of research, descriptions of classroom techniques, studies of assessments, and other topics of interest to educational researchers. Issue number 1 of Volume 6 contains these articles: (1) "'More than Having a Vision': The Emergence of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Research in the Schools; v1-5 1994-1998, 1998
This document consists of the first five volumes (10 issues) of the serial "Research in the Schools," a nationally refereed journal published by the Mid-South Educational Research Association and the University of Alabama. It publishes original contributions related to research in practice, topical issues in education, methods and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
