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Inclusive Practices with Special Programs through Peer Mentoring
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Meyers, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine whether peer mentors and inclusive practices in the Foundations program increased students' IEP goal progress. Study participants consisted of 8th grade typical peers and 6th through 8th grade students in the Foundations Program in the Appoquinimink School District. Peer mentors inquired and were selected…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Peer Teaching, Mentors, Inclusion
Deficit-Based vs. Strengths-Based Goal Setting: Does Goal Setting Type Selection Affect Student Growth and Achievement Scores and Self-Efficacy?
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Mallory R. Shackelford – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educators are always looking for new ideas and best practices to positively impact student learning. Particularly after the learning interruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, schoolteachers and leaders are seeking strategies to increase the rate of student academic growth. One approach that can be borrowed from leadership development is the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4, Grade 8
The Relationship between Student Performance on Assigned Mastery Goals and STAAR Performance in K-8 Texas School Students
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Agamyrat Altyyev – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the relationship between mastery goal performance and achievement on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test. With policies like the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) placing increased importance on standardized-state assessments, schools are making efforts to improve scores, often by focusing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 3
A Cycle Model of Intercultural Learning: Educating the Global Citizen
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Lone K. Svarstad; Karen Risager – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
This article presents a model of intercultural learning that may be used in the planning and implementation of citizenship education in foreign/second/world language teaching. The Cycle model of intercultural learning aims at the development of global citizenship and comprises four phases: noticing, comparing, reflecting and interaction. Among the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
Achievement Goals for Teaching as Predictors of Students' Perceptions of Instructional Practices and Students' Help Seeking and Cheating
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Butler, Ruth; Shibaz, Limor – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study examined a new achievement-goal approach to teacher motivation by testing the predictions that mastery and ability-avoidance goals for teaching would predict students' reports of teacher support for and inhibition of question asking and help seeking, as well as students' help seeking and cheating. Surveys were completed by 53 teachers…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Teacher Motivation
The Emergence of Mathematical Goals in a Recreational Practice
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Meira, Luciano; Correia, Monica – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
While the influence of individuals' participation in practices of economic subsistence on the development of mathematical knowledge has been widely reported in the literature, there are not as many studies about the relationship between cultural life and mathematical cognition in the context of recreational practices. This article reports a study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction