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Reyes, Iliana – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
The dual purposes of this review are, first, to synthesize the extant research on biliteracy, focusing particularly on children and youths and, second, to clarify key terms and phenomena in this developing field. The review is organized into three areas of research: (1) individual biliteracy development, (2) biliteracy in family and community…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Synthesis, Multiple Literacies, Literature Reviews
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Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Nkomo, Mokubung – Review of Research in Education, 2012
Schools have a seminal role in preparing a society's children for their adult responsibilities as workers, parents, friends, neighbors, and citizens. The United States, countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Brazil, India, South Africa, and other multiethnic democratic nation-states have increasingly diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Role, Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives
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van Gennip, Nanine A. E.; Segers, Mien S. R.; Tillema, Harm H. – Educational Research Review, 2009
This paper reports a systematic literature review examining empirical studies on the effects of peer assessment for learning. Peer assessment is fundamentally a social process whose core activity is feedback given to and received from others, aimed at enhancing the performance of each individual group member and/or the group as a whole. This makes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Synthesis, Research Design, Experiments
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Hart, Ann Weaver – Review of Educational Research, 1991
Leader-succession research is refocused on its interactive roots whereas the advances of recent succession inquiry are explored in this synthesis of the literature. The approach capitalizes on efforts to understand leader-succession research from a multidimensional and social viewpoint. Organizational socialization is used to frame the discussion.…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction, Leadership
Johnson, R. Burke – 1993
An integrative causal process model of evaluation utilization variables is presented. The model was developed through a traditional approach to literature review that lists results from published studies and relates these to the research topic, and through an approach that tries to integrate the models found in the literature search. Meta-modeling…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Effect, Decision Making
Kamil, Michael L. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2005
In recent years there have been several attempts at integrating the research on reading. Snow, Burns, and Griffin (1998) delineated three areas of knowledge that, if appropriately dealt with, will prevent reading difficulties: knowledge of the alphabetic principle, fluency, and comprehension. Snow, Burns, and Griffin suggest that these areas…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Synthesis, Low Achievement