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Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Research. – 1983
North Carolina students taking statewide achievement tests in grades 6 and 9 were ased two questions about the amount of time they spend doing homework: how much time do you spend doing assigned homework, and how much time do you spend doing work which is not assigned or required by the teacher? The results were compared with their scores on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, Elementary Education, Homework
Peer reviewedHaynes, Mariana C.; Jenkins, Joseph R. – American Educational Research Journal, 1986
The SOBR observation technique was used to observe reading instruction in special education resource room programs for mildly disabled students. Disabled and nondisabled students in regular classrooms were also observed. There were considerable differences in reading instruction across programs and students. The amount of reading instruction was…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Observation Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedHowe, Ann C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Male student behaviors and student-student interactions were studied in racially integrated activity-centered junior high classrooms. Coded behaviors included: how time was spent by both Black and White students, the number and nature of within-and cross-race interactions, and the relationship between learning behaviors and grades. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Desegregation Effects, Grade Point Average
Ramey, Madelaine – 1992
Problems involved in reducing the achievement gap among ethnic groups in the Seattle (Washington) public schools were studied. An 11-member team selected 25 elementary schools and 216 classrooms for the study, which included classroom observations, teacher questionnaires, and measurement of ethnic achievement gap reduction through California…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Crawford, John; And Others – 1985
Various models of school effects on student achievement were applied in a study of reading and mathematics achievement in the 94 schools of the Oklahoma City Public Schools. The Leadership/Climate Inventory, completed by 1294 teachers, rated school principals in the areas of expectations, instructional leadership, forceful or dynamic style,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Gastright, Joseph F. – 1985
This descriptive study investigates the variability in the curriculum pacing decisions of classroom teachers. The effects on the reading achievement and performance gains of first and second grade students in a compensatory education program program are examined. Data were collected from: (1) the Metropolitan Readiness Test results used to select…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basal Reading, Cohort Analysis
Sofer, Sheldon; And Others – 1985
Results are presented from the first two years of implementation of Detroit's Peer Teachers as Mirrors and Monitors Project. The data describe reading and mathematics achievement in grades 1-4 at two schools which participated in the project interventions, and one comparison school. Results indicate that: (1) teachers' appropriate use of time…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
