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Dylan C. Teut – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A significant number of U.S. students are unable to read proficiently by fourth grade, and over two billion dollars are spent each year on students who repeat a grade due to reading problems. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to examine novice elementary teachers' perspectives of their self-efficacy in using adaptive instructional…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Literacy Education, Student Evaluation
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Oakes, Wendy Peia; Swogger, Emily D.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Menzies, Holly Mariah; Sanchez, Jeremy – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
We report findings of a convergent validity study examining the internalizing subscale (SRSS-I5) of the newly adapted Student Risk Screening Scale for Internalizing and Externalizing (SRSS-IE12) with the internalizing subscale of the Teacher Report Form (TRF; Achenbach, 1991) conducted in 13 schools across three states with 195 kindergarten…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Behavior Problems, Cutting Scores, Decision Making
Dick, Lara Kristen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research on preservice teacher learning has often focused on coursework and course related field experiences, and not as much on the learning that takes place during student teaching field experiences. Since preservice student teachers are engaged with children on a daily basis, attention to their own students' thinking should be viewed as a means…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching, Student Teachers
Pham, Cheryl Carangian – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this mixed methods phenomenological study was to explore the data-driven instructional decisions that elementary teachers make in literacy. Educators have moved towards a culture of being data-driven, and have declared data use in schools to be significant to school improvement and accountability (Marsh, Pane, & Hamilton, 2006).…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
Sharon Kamberg – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Problem and purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate reading achievement levels of fourth, fifth, and sixth grade Central Valley students who participated in Reading Recovery in first grade and those students eligible that did not participate in Reading Recovery in first grade (1999, 2000, and 2001). The study also sought to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Eitelgeorge, Janice S.; Barrett, Robin – Reading Research and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this yearlong study was to understand the complexities of the writing process and to specifically attend to progressions in textual development with first-grade writers. The inquiry focused for a macroview on all the children during writing workshop and for a microview on six case studies that displayed the range of literacy…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Grade 1, Writing Processes, Emergent Literacy