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Kelly Hawkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Every student comes into each classroom with a unique mathematical identity. Mathematical identity consists of the stories about a person's confidence, beliefs, and persistence with mathematics as told by her/himself or by others (Gweshe & Brodie, 2019). Identity is not fixed (Dweck & Yeager, 2019; Wenger, 1998) and is dynamic within a…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Self Concept, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Bullock, Audrey N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem solving in mathematics has been a goal for students for decades. In the reviewed literature, problem solving was most often treated as the dependent variable and was defined very broadly; however, few studies were found that included problem solving as a treatment or independent variable. The purpose of this study was to investigate the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement
Marquez, Jocabed G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The United States faces high demand for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) professionals and a scarce supply of individuals who pursue STEM careers, especially minority populations in the U.S with proficiency in a language other than English. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact of use of Spanish in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Min, Mina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With increasingly diverse formal education settings around the globe, teachers' ability to differentiate curriculum is essential to meet the needs of students with varied cultural, socioeconomic, racial, and linguistic backgrounds. Teachers' curricular autonomy is a prerequisite to diversify curriculum. Guided by sociocultural approaches to agency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
Della Sala, Matthew Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2014
School finance scholars have called for the alignment of accountability policies with state finance formulae to allocate resources toward student learning goals (Adams, 2008; Ryan, 2008; Superfine, 2009; Verstegen, 2002). With the presence of accountability policies that focus on improving students' academic achievement, state finance systems must…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, Accountability
Frye, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The relationships that students have with their parents and peers permeate their lives both inside and outside of the classroom. The purpose of the present exploratory study is to assess (a) the psychometric quality of measures gauging the latent variables of adolescents' perceptions of their relatedness to both parents and peers and (b) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Adolescent Attitudes, Parents
Wu, Hsin-Chieh – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Previous research indicates that collective efficacy, faculty trust in students and parents, and academic emphasis together formed a single latent school construct, called academic optimism. In the U.S., academic optimism has been proven to be a powerful construct that could effectively predict student achievement even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Elementary School Students, Institutional Characteristics
Mahdavi, Seema – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Children with learning disabilities represent the largest category of students served within special education systems in schools, and are at increased risk for academic and psychosocial problems in comparison to peers without learning disabilities. While much of clinical practice and research focus has been on academic interventions,…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Depression (Psychology), Academic Achievement
Sparapani, Nicole J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Few studies have examined how instructor variables relate to student performance measures for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to examine instructor language and student active engagement in general and special education classrooms for students with ASD. This study included participants (n = 196…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Usage, Learner Engagement
Peller, Sarah – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The present study examined the relationship between children's early literacy-related abilities and their reading achievement in late elementary school in the context of a Puerto Rican community in Massachusetts. The researcher examined four years of student achievement test data from the public elementary schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Reading Tests, Grade 1, Grade 4
Shanahan, Katherine Bruckman – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Report cards are the primary way that teachers, students, and parents communicate about student achievement in the classroom. Although many school districts develop rubrics to guide teacher grading practices, most research finds that in reality, grades represent a hodgepodge of factors that vary across teachers and across school systems. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grading, Report Cards, Grades (Scholastic)
Zhao, Jing – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A growing body of literature has provided evidence of the contribution of various metalinguistic skills to children's English literacy development; however, most of the studies focused on reading outcomes while spelling outcomes have been under-researched. Further, very few studies have been conducted to investigate if the results based on native…
Descriptors: Evidence, Spelling, Metalinguistics, Structural Equation Models
Olson, Mark E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this study, the researcher sought to determine whether Nebraska teachers and administrators agreed about what constitutes sound grading practice. The results of this study indicated that Nebraska teachers and administrators working in public schools in 7th-12th grade settings did not always agree about what constituted sound grading practice.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Grading, Public Schools
Vander Horst, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In a study of 5285 8th graders from the Gang Resistance and Education Training (G.R.E.A.T.) research, this study applied Travis Hirschi's social bonding theory to examine the curriculum's efficacy in increasing conventional bonding (friends with positive peers, succeeding at education etc.) and decreasing non-conventional bonding (drug…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Resistance (Psychology), Juvenile Gangs, Program Effectiveness
Childress, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
While several models of adult writing have been proposed and studied, the development of writing skills in young children has only recently garnered attention. Using measures of fine-motor, language, working memory, and attention/executive functions, the current study explored motor and cognitive skills that may contribute to writing skill in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Writing (Composition), Structural Equation Models, Young Children
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