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Wetzels, Annemie; Steenbeek, Henderien; Van Geert, Paul – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2016
This article describes the effectiveness and sustainability of teacher professional development interventions from a complexity viewpoint as well as a more "standard" viewpoint. The first aim of this study is to give a theoretical overview of effective aspects of interventions regarding teachers' professionalizing using recent…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Instructional Design
Sawyer, Brook E.; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Cycyk, Lauren M.; Lopez, Lisa; Blair, Clancy; Sandilos, Lia; Komaroff, Eugene – Grantee Submission, 2016
The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the degree to which teachers used linguistically responsive practices to support the language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and (b) to investigate the associations between these practices and select teacher-level factors. The sample consisted of 72 preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Bilingual Students
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Sawyer, Brook E.; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Cycyk, Lauren M.; López, Lisa; Blair, Clancy; Sandilos, Lia; Komaroff, Eugene – Bilingual Research Journal, 2016
The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the degree to which teachers used linguistically responsive practices to support the language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and (b) to investigate the associations between these practices and select teacher-level factors. The sample consisted of 72 preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Bilingual Students
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Kessler, Brett; Pollo, Tatiana Cury; Treiman, Rebecca; Cardoso-Martins, Claudia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
The present study explored how children's prephonological writing foretells differential learning outcomes in primary school. The authors asked Portuguese-speaking preschool children in Brazil (mean age 4 year 3 months) to spell 12 words. Monte Carlo tests were used to identify the 31 children whose writing was not based on spellings or sounds of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Preschool Children, Monte Carlo Methods