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Ness, Molly – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
An essential element in teaching children to effectively comprehend text is the use of teacher-led think-alouds. The overarching objective of this study was to explore how to better prepare early career teachers to conduct think-alouds in their classrooms. Data from 31 teachers consisted of (1) questionnaires, (2) lesson plans, (3) lesson…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis, Reading Instruction
Janzen, Melanie D. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
The trouble with education research is that the research is burdened with trouble before it begins. Working as a poststructural education researcher and engaged in a recent research project that sought to engage with questions of teacher identity, I employed an alternative data elicitation method of literary response groups--similar to that of…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Fiction, Educational Research
Shea, Mary – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In "Running Records", Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuring that children develop self-sustaining…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Difficulties, Early Childhood Education, Reading
Chang, Kuo-En; Lan, Yu-Ju; Chang, Chien-Mei; Sung, Yao-Ting – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
The work described in this paper explores the feasibility of using of a wireless handheld system (WHS) that supports the individual and co-operative reading activities of students and helps teachers implement reading strategy instruction in Chinese language classes. The experimental findings demonstrate that the WHS benefits students applying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Skretta, John – Principal Leadership, 2007
This article discusses walk-throughs as a valuable source of instructional data for teachers and administrators. Data gathering and analysis can be a dynamic and exciting process when walk-throughs are incorporated into a school's improvement plan as an instructional snapshot. At Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska, the principal uses…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Change, Data Analysis, Instructional Improvement

Ke, Chunaren – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Investigated the relationship between Chinese character recognition and production by second-language learners. Subjects were 47 first-year Chinese language students in the United States. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Data Collection, Ideography
Brown, Justine – T.H.E. Journal, 2006
When mobile assessment tools was first introduced to teachers at Kyffin Elementary School in Jefferson Country, Colorado, teachers were not comfortable with the technology. According to Blanche Kapushion, principal at Kyffin, teachers were not used to using technology in class, and it did not look like that was going to change. Nonetheless,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Reading Comprehension

Block, Ellen – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Illustrates the comprehension-monitoring process used by first (L1) and second (L2) language readers of English as they read expository prose and compares the comprehension-monitoring strategies of L1 and L2 readers with respect to two problems: locating a referent and defining a vocabulary item. (59 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Stambaugh, Tamra – Gifted Child Today, 2006
This article describes Project Athena, a Javits program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and developed through the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. Project Athena seeks to find ways to help impoverished children develop advanced skills in reading comprehension, literary analysis, and persuasive writing. Its…
Descriptors: Literacy, Poverty, Skill Development, Reading Comprehension