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Computer Aided Mathematics Instruction for Low-Achieving Students
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A comparative study of the relative effectiveness of computer assisted instruction, cooperative learning and teacher directed instruction on improving math performance of low achieving students
… effectiveness in improving math performance of low achieving students. Additional information was collected on student time on task behavior to determine the relative impact of these treatments on this variable. An experimental research design was used. Ninety-nine rising sixth grade students …
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The Relationship Between Ability Grouping and the Reading Scores of Low Achieving 3Rd Grade Students In High Poverty Urban Schools In Georgia
… between the CRCT reading scores of third grade students who are homogeneously grouped and third grade students who are heterogeneously grouped. This study was designed to investigate the relationship of ability grouping on the Criterion Reference Competency Test (CRCT) reading scores of low …
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An Experimental Study of the Effect of Specialized Reading Treatment on the Reading Achievement of Second Grade Students
… be used in a regular classroom to benefit all low-achieving students.
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The Conversational Performance of Low Achieving and Normally Achieving Third Grade Children
… were identified by their classroom teacher as low-achieving students and twenty were considered to be normally achieving students. Subjects were selected from three regular education third grade classrooms within the same school. The children were from a predominantly working class community.
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Development, implementation and evaluation of an interactive multimedia instructional model : A teaching and learning programming approach
… among a cohort of 100 undergraduate engineering students, 50 in a control group and another 50 in an experimental group, studying an introductory programming course at Suranaree University of Technology (SUT) in Thailand, The study found that the use of DIVTIC was a successful complement to …
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Essays on the economics of education and health
… impact of Special Education (SE) placement on students' social and academic outcomes. Despite the fact that one out of every seven U.S. public school students receives SE services, little is known about the impact of this program on future outcomes. I exploit the strategic incentive to increase …
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School Climate and Public High School Student Achievement
… in 10th-grade. Further, the gap between high and low achieving students becomes narrower from 10th-grade to 12th-grade. The highest mathematics course taken in 12-grade produces a positive estimate of mathematics achievement in 12th-grade, and ethnic minority and lower SES students are less likely …
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Use of the PALS Test to differentiate between High Achieving and Low Achieving Fifth GradeStudents: A Validity Study
… 1964) would significantly differentiate between low achieving and hie;h achieving 5th-grade students. The basic design was the same basic design as used by Williams (1961), except that high achieving and low achieving students were used instead of acting-out and normal children. It was intended …
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Characteristics of Effective Teaching of Eighth Grade Mathematics in Puerto Rico
… was to identify teacher and student behaviors in low and high achieving eighth grade classrooms. Four classrooms were selected for the study. Two were identified as having high achieving students; two as having low achieving students. Other selection factors included socio-economic status of …
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A Metacognition Training Manual for Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities in Resource Specialist Programs
… one’s own thinking. It is a skill that high achieving students develop quickly and implicitly; however, low achieving students and students with learning disabilities often lack metacognition skills, negatively impacting their academic achievement. Explicit instruction in metacognition for …
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The effects of cooperative learning on the spelling achievement of intermediate elementary students
… in spelling achievement among groups of students who were high, average, and low achievers. The study attempted to determine, over 7 weeks, any treatment effects resulting from students being cooperatively grouped for spelling instruction. A student's level of achievement and type of …
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Unlocking a Gated Community: A Qualitative Study of Two Self -Contained Gifted Classes
… is to provide an appropriate education to all students. Special programs that target one segment of the school population are politically vulnerable. Gifted education is particularly susceptible to attack, especially in times, such as today, of reduced state funding for education. However, in a …
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Socially promoted students' lived experience of transition into high school
… understand the factors that contribute to some low achieving students passing later grades on merit while others continue to fail. Given this inconsistency of outcome, it is fitting that recent public policy and educational research has suggested that there is a need for specific programs and …
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Attitudes of teachers and students to the place of Home Economics in a mixed curriculum : a case study
… the attitudes and perceptions of teachers and students in a school in Zimbabwe. The study was carried out at Rusununguko Secondary School in Zimbabwe, where H/E was one of the technical subjects within a curriculum mainly dominated by academic subjects. Students and teachers' attitudes and …
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A road less traveled: the experiences of black male collegians at a PWI
… success of African American male undergraduate students at Predominantly White Institutions. While numerous authors have conducted research on black males in higher education, many seem to focus on those who have been identified as either high achieving or low achieving students. Utilizing a …
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Caught Between Two Worlds: The Experiences of Newly Arrived Mexican Immigrant High School Students
… experiences of newly arrived Mexican immigrant students in their homes, communities, and schools. Additionally, I explored if their experiences with peers, in their home life, as well as identity and migratory experience differ in relation to levels of achievement. Thirty students of Mexican …
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An investigation of the effects grade retention has on students' academic performance
… and mathematics cumulative grades of 58 students in the second and third grade were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The results indicated that students who were retained improved more in academic performance than students who were low-achievers but promoted instead and those …
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Computer-assisted Chapter 1 instruction
… of elementary educationally disadvantaged students. Specifically, this study determined the effects of CAI upon the academic performance of Chapter 1 sixth-grade students in reading and language arts. The sample consisted of 514 sixth-grade students from an eastern-USA LEA's Chapter 1 …
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Latino Academic Achievement: Impact of Individual, Family, School, Community and Immigration Factors
… systems on the academic achievement of Latino students. More specifically, this study examines the influence and dynamic interaction of individual, family, school, community, and immigration factors on the academic achievement of Latino students through a secondary data analysis of the ELS: …
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