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Potts, Bonnie – 1993
Several recent investigations have suggested that students need help with their notes, as even successful students may fail to record many ideas communicated by the lecturer. Results also suggest that there is value in having students participate in the notetaking process in that they are more likely to remember what they have noted, even if full…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Roeber, Edward – 1995
American schools are being challenged to provide opportunities for students to achieve at much higher levels. Assessment is viewed as one of the essential elements in assisting schools to address the standards now deemed to be important in a manner that will help all students to achieve them. The major challenge for assessment is to implement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Brualdi, Amy C. – 1998
Questioning is one of the most popular modes of teaching, but it has the capacity to turn a child off to learning if done incorrectly. This digest provides teachers with information on the types of questions and questioning behaviors that can facilitate the learning process and on the types of questions that are ineffective. Good questions foster…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education
Fortune, Tara W.; Tedick, Diane J. – 2003
Modeled after the pioneering French immersion programs developed in Canada in the 1960s, foreign language immersion programs in the United States are designed to enrich the education of native-English-speaking students by teaching them all of their academic subjects in a second language. The goal is for students to become proficient in the second…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Literacy
Foster, Michele – 2002
Despite three decades of research on African American English (AAE), educational workshops aimed at improving the academic achievement, particularly the literacy achievement, of African American students still emphasize differences between Standard English and African American English. One result is that teachers may overlook the linguistic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
Johnson, James H. – 1997
With accurate information, educators are better able to make effective decisions. Besides being used to assess student performance, a complete program of data collection and use can also show educators how management skills, individual learning styles, and other elements affect student achievement. This digest provides an overview of how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Brualdi, Amy – 1998
This digest explains why teacher comments on report cards are important, offers suggestions on how to construct effective comments, points out words or phrases to be cautious about using, and indicate sources of information for report card comments. Teacher comments are important in that they often convey information that is not completely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Howe, Robert W.; Warren, Charles R. – 1989
The ability to think critically is essential if individuals are to live, work, and function effectively in a current and changing society. As adults, students will be living in a complex world and in a democracy where both individual and collective actions will require effective selection, processing, and use of information. National, state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Ortiz, Alba – 2001
Students fail in school for a variety of reasons. In some cases, their academic difficulties can be directly attributed to deficiencies in the teaching and learning environment. For example, students with limited English may fail because they do not have access to effective bilingual or English as a second language (ESL) instruction. Students from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Prereferral Intervention
Johnson, James H. – 1997
With accurate information, educators are better able to make effective decisions. Besides being used to assess student performance, a complete program of data collection and use can also show educators how management skills, individual learning styles, and other elements affect student achievement. This digest in Spanish provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Marzano, Robert J. – 1996
This digest presents eight questions that pertain to how standards-based education affects classroom instruction and assessment at the local level. Various options and recommendations are provided to help education officials determine the practical concerns of standards-based education. The following questions are explored: (1) where will the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Benchmarking, Educational Assessment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY. – 2000
This digest presents recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education's Hispanic Dropout Project for school practices that promote the academic achievement of Hispanic youth, and it supplements the recommendations with examples from case studies. Each Hispanic student should have an adult in the school committed to nurturing the student's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
Ford, Donna Y.; Thomas, Antoinette – 1997
This digest discusses factors affecting the achievement of gifted minority students, particularly Black students. Problems associated with underachievement definitions and the influence of social, cultural, and psychological factors on student achievement are examined. Suggestions and recommendations for reversing underachievement among gifted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Change Strategies, Definitions
Gomez, Emily – 2000
The current school reform effort emphasizes the need to improve the education of all students. Assessing the academic achievement of every student is an essential part of this reform, but one that presents a challenge for most schools, school districts, and states. Traditional assessment practices in many states and school districts have tended to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria
Farr, Roger; Tone, Bruce – 1994
Pressed by the vise created by the "era of accountability" and evolving theory which emphasizes constructing meaning and problem solving, educators have become more articulate about defending the classroom impact of new theory. Assessment in the classroom is following contemporary descriptions of learning, thinking, and language use as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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