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Gay Ivey; Peter Johnston – Language and Education, 2024
Although reading comprehension research and instruction commonly focus on individuals' ability to extract meaning from text, eighth-grade students whose teachers chose to focus on engaged volitional reading, rather than comprehension, demonstrated expansive forms of meaning-making and purpose. Interviews and observations across two school years…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Reading Material Selection, Student Interests, Difficulty Level
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Carla C. Johnson; Virginia L. J. Bolshakova; Tammy Waldron – Urban Education, 2016
This study examined the ability of Transformative Professional Development (TPD) to transform science teacher quality and associated impact on science achievement, including particular focus on English Language Learners (ELL). TPD was implemented in a large, low-performing, urban district in the southwest with predominantly Latino ELL populations.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Transformative Learning, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
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Ivey, Gay; Johnston, Peter H. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2015
The context of this study is a voluntary modification in teaching focus by four eighth-grade teachers who shifted their instructional focus toward student engagement. They abandoned assigned readings in favor of student-selected, self-paced reading within a collection of high interest materials--primarily young adult fiction that students found…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Transformative Learning, Middle School Teachers, Grade 8