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Mohr-Schroeder, Margaret; Ronau, Robert N.; Peters, Susan; Lee, Carl W.; Bush, William S. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2017
This article describes the development and validation of two forms of the Geometry Assessments for Secondary Teachers (GAST), which were designed to assess teachers' knowledge for teaching geometry. Both forms were developed by teams of mathematicians, mathematics educators, psychometricians, and secondary classroom geometry teachers. Predictive…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry
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White, Mark W.; Houchins, David E.; Viel-Ruma, Kimberly A.; Dever, Bridget V. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
This study investigated the effects of the "Expressive Writing (EW)" direct instruction curriculum on the expository writing skills of secondary grade students with serious emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD). The "EW" program targets writing mechanics, sentence writing, and editing but does not include pre-writing…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Instruction, Direct Instruction, Writing Skills
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Fung, Karen; ElAtia, Samira – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
Using Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM), this study aimed to identify factors such as ESL/ELL/EAL status that would predict students' reading performance in an English language arts exam taken across Canada. Using data from the 2007 administration of the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP) along with the accompanying surveys for students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, English (Second Language)