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Comparing the Effects of Analysis-of-Practice and Content-Based Professional Development on Teacher and Student Outcomes in Science
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Roth, Kathleen J.; Wilson, Christopher D.; Taylor, Joseph A.; Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Hvidsten, Connie – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
This study tests the influence of a video-based, analysis-of-practice professional development (PD) program on upper-elementary teachers' science content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching practice and on their students' achievement. Using a cluster-randomized experimental design, the study compares the outcomes for teachers in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Faculty Development, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
The Effects of Affirmative Quality Feedback on Low Socio-Economic Students' Zone of Proximal Development Reading Gains (ZPDRL): A Causal-Comparative Study
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Prescott, Sharon H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore upper elementary reading classes in a low socio-economic area to determine the effects frequent praise, both academically and socially, have on the zone of proximal development in reading (ZPD[subscript RL], Renaissance Learning, 2006). A causal-comparative study was utilized by observing two groups of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Beginning Reading
Investigating a First-Year Seminar as an Anchor Course in Learning Communities
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Friedman, Daniel B.; Alexander, Julie S. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2007
First-year seminars have increasingly been used as anchor courses in learning communities. This study investigated the impact participation in Freshman Seminar had on the grade earned in a linked learning community course in fall 2004. Grades in the linked course for 1,294 first-year students who were enrolled in 37 different learning communities…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Transitional Programs, College Freshmen, Integrated Curriculum
A Mixed-Method Approach to Evaluating Learning Communities for Underprepared Community College Students: The Integrated Studies Communities at Parkland College.
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Moore, Linda Hamman – 2000
This study evaluated two developmental learning communities, named the Integrated Studies Communities ISC, at Parkland College in Illinois. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the students in the ISC with similar underprepared students in the regular curriculum. The ISC offers four linked courses, and participating students take them…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Developmental Programs
Effects of Computer and Noncomputer Environments on Students' Conceptualizations of Geometric Motions.
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Johnson-Gentile, Kay; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1994
Describes a study that investigated the effects of computer and noncomputer environments on fifth- and sixth-grade students' learning of geometric motions. The use of LOGO and the treatment of experimental and control groups are discussed, and the results of immediate and delayed posttests are reviewed. (38 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education
Inquiry, Modeling, and Metacognition: Making Science Accessible to All Students.
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White, Barbara Y.; Frederiksen, John R. – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Evaluated the "ThinkerTools Inquiry Curriculum," a computer-enhanced, middle school science curriculum, to determine the impact of including the Reflective Assessment Process. Found that students' performance improved significantly on both physics and inquiry assessments. Controlled comparison revealed that students' learning was greatly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Disadvantaged Youth
Effects of a Theoretically Based Large-Scale Reading Intervention in a Multicultural Urban School District
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Sadoski, Mark; Willson, Victor L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
In 1997, Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes partnered with Pueblo School District 60 (PSD60), a heavily minority urban district with many Title I schools, to implement a theoretically based initiative designed to improve Colorado Student Assessment Program reading scores. In this study, the authors examined achievement in Grades 3-5 during the…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Learning Processes, Intervention, Urban Schools