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The student achievement decline at sixth grade and the practices impacting achievement
1 PDF file (xiii, 143 pages)
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Determinants of Academic Achievement: The Interaction of Children's Achievement Orientations With Task Requirements
… the way they respond to failure in intellectual achievement situations. "Mastery-oriented" children respond to failure in an adaptive fashion. Effort and concentration are intensified; and task performance may be enhanced as a result. Sometimes these children show more mature problem-solving …
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WHY DO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATE-MEASURED ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AND NATIONALLY-MEASURED ACHIEVEMENT GAPS EXIST?
… To what degree do states differ in measuring the achievement gap? 2. Are there predictors to suggest why this differential occurs? The first research question requires that the degree of difference, the differential quotient, is determined. For the purposes of this dissertation, I calculated the …
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First Grade Achievement Predicted by the Metropolitan Readiness Tests and The California Achievement Tests
… Tests (MRT) is a better predictor of first grade achievement than is the California Achievement Tests (CAT). The subjects were 400 representatively selected students from 10 of 38 elementary schools operating in a public school system in the Southeast. MRT scores for 1985 were collected for 200 …
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Contributions of Selected Music Skills to Music Sight Reading Achievement and Rehearsed Reading Achievement
… to predict sight-reading and rehearsed reading achievement. Models were built for all subjects and for subgroups of the subjects. Subgroups were structured from specific levels of personal characteristics. Models were constructed for the prediction of overall sight-reading and rehearsed reading …
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Time-management and academic achievement.
… between time management and academic achievement. To this end there were two specific aims. The first aim was to analyze the factor structure of time-management in an attempt to determine whether the construct consists of more than one component. The second aim was to examine whether …
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Black Genius: An Achievement Distortion
<p>Is the achievement gap real? Using a mixed-methods approach, this study reframed standardized testing through a Quantitative Critical and Black Critical lens. It interrogated the deficit framing of Black student achievement by asking the following questions: (1) To what extent do the aggregated …
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Parent Involvement and Academic Achievement
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Class Size and Academic Achievement
… the relationship between class size and academic achievement in rural, economically disadvantaged third grade classrooms and how teachers perceive class size as affecting their instructional and classroom management methods. Data collection and analysis for the study involved 3,812 third grade …
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Winning an Independence Achievement Game.
<p>The game "Generalized Kayles (or Independence Achievement)" is played by two players A and B on an arbitrary graph G. The players alternate removing a vertex and its neighbors from G, the winner being the last player with a nonempty set from which to choose. In this thesis, we present winning …
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Instructional Coaching And Student Achievement
… to improve teacher quality and increase student achievement. Looking specifically at instructional coaching as an intervention for teacher support, this study considers the literacy growth data of coached teachers compared to the literacy growth data of uncoached teachers when controlling for …
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Mathematical Achievement in Reduced Stress
<p>The study, Mathematical Achievement in Reduced Classes, evaluated qualitative data on how class size effects student achievement in math. The information was collected by interviewing teachers on their experiences of teaching multiplication in a reduced or regular class size. Two groups of …
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Family Organization and Preschool Achievement
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School Practices and Student Achievement
… some schools were making great gains in student achievement while other schools continued to struggle. The Department conducted a study to identify the practices used by schools showing improvement. Six effective practice domains were identified. The current study was a follow-up to the research …
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Peer, Home, and School Achievement: A Study in Achievement Motivation (Virgin Islands, Grade Five, Caribbean)
… factors relate cross-gender to differential achievement patterns among fifth-grade students, particularly the degree of relationship between self-concept of ability and achievement, and between area-specific (peer, home, and school) achievement motivation and actual achievement.
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A Study of the Impact of Communicated Expected Achievement Upon Actual Achievement in College Science
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:23:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6511899.pdf: 3317784 bytes, checksum: 03f5f53347ed57562327e01a96ac7713 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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