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Puliatte, Alison; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The relationship between 2nd and 3rd grade teachers' linguistic knowledge and spelling instructional practices and their students' spelling gains from fall to spring was examined. Second grade (N = 16) and 3rd grade (N = 16) teachers were administered an instructional practices survey and a linguistic knowledge test. Total scores on the two…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Scores, Phonemes
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Goldstein, Jessica; McCoach, D. Betsy; Yu, HuiHui – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Recent federal investments in early childhood assessment systems are the result of a national need for developmentally appropriate, psychometrically sound instruments to monitor young children and evaluate the effectiveness of their learning programs. In this paper, we examined the association between teachers' perceptions of their students at the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Cherng, Hua-Yu Sebastian; Halpin, Peter F. – Educational Researcher, 2016
The demographic divide between teachers and students is of growing public concern. However, few studies have explicitly addressed the common argument that students, and particularly minority students, have more favorable perceptions of minority versus White teachers. Using data from the Measure of Effective Teaching study, we find that students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Minority Group Teachers, Race, Teacher Recruitment
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Polly, Drew; McGee, Jennifer R.; Wang, Chuang; Lambert, Richard G.; Pugalee, David K.; Johnson, Sarah – Mathematics Educator, 2013
Mathematics educators continue to explore ways to improve student learning. Of particular interest are the relationships between teachers' instructional practices, their beliefs towards mathematics teaching, and student learning outcomes. While some studies have found empirical links between teachers' enactment of specific instructional practices…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Correlation, Teaching Methods
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de Kock, Willem D.; Harskamp, Egbert G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
Teachers in primary education experience difficulties in teaching word problem solving in their mathematics classes. However, during controlled experiments with a metacognitive computer programme, students' problem-solving skills improved. Also without the supervision of researchers, metacognitive computer programmes can be beneficial in a natural…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Wilson, Mark; Hallam, P. J.; Pecheone, Raymond; Moss, Pamela A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
This study examines one part of a validity argument for portfolio assessments of teaching practice used as an indicator of teaching quality to inform a licensure decision. We investigate the relationship among portfolio assessment scores, a test of teacher knowledge (ETS's Praxis I and II), and changes in student achievement (on…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Teaching Experience, Teacher Certification, Educational Quality