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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"National Assessment of Educational Progress"”.
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The Relationships of Word Processing in Academic Work and Student Achievement Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
This study is a secondary analysis of the 2011 NAEP writing test investigating the relationships between word processing in academic work and achievement test scores. Using data and methods to overcome several of the limitations found in research surrounding instructional technology, the …
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Restructuring Seconday Social Studies: Results of the Humanities Project at Greece Athena High School
… today's world. This belief was enhanced in April of 1983, when the report A Nation at Risk was released by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The results caught much of the United States off guard. One quote from the report said "the educational foundations of our society are …
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Evaluating Technology Delivered Repeated Reading with Diverse Learners
… fluency issues that can hinder their academic progress. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a standardized test used to evaluate the reading performance of students. The transition to virtual learning amidst COVID-19 impacted the reading performance among diverse students. …
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Writing in the Math Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Project
<p>The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Interpretative Team for the Fourth Mathematics Assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) (Silver, Lindquist, Carpenter, Brown, Kouba, and Swafford, 1988) reports that performance levels for thirteen year-olds has not …
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Student Voices on High School Mathematics Teaching And Learning: College Student Voices on Teacher Behaviors and Actions Impacting High School Mathematics Achievement
<p>According to the national Assessment of Educational Progress the national trend in mathematics achievement has not significantly changed from 1973 through 2012 for 17 year olds (National Center for Educational statistics, 2014). Student beliefs about mathematics learning are an important factor …
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Estimational Abilities and Mathematics Achievement of Seventh Graders
… estimation and mental computation are two of the most neglected areas of today's mathematical curriculum. Much has been written about these two concepts, but little instruction has been carried out in the classroom (Johnson, 1979; Reys, 1986). Freeman (cited in Reys & Bestgen, 1981) states …
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Literacy And Equity: Exploring Teachers’ Lived Experiences Of Georgia Black Boys’ Difficulties With Reading Comprehension And Word Recognition
<p>The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data shows that since 1992, Black male students in Georgia’s fourth through eighth grades have consistently scored low on reading assessments (The Nation’s Report Card, 2022c). Low reading achievement contributes to a persistent …
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Navigating Social-emotional Experiences for Readers: Stories of Two High-performing Urban Elementary Teachers
Reading proficiency rates for elementary students in the United States are extremely concerning, especially for students in urban contexts (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2017). Due to accountability pressures and high-stakes testing, low-performing urban schools often take measures …
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Exploring the use of mathematics apps in the elementary school classroom
… in mathematics (Carr, 2012; Hinton, 2014; National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013). Some evidence suggests that technology can help improve student performance in the field (Boogart et al., 2014; Riconscente, 2013). This study investigates how the use of digital mathematics …
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The Effects of Teachers' Mathematical Practices on Student Achievement in the Diverse Classroom
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) vision for mathematics education is to provide every student with high-quality instruction from highly effective teachers. Achieving this goal requires a solid mathematics curriculum, competent and experienced teachers who can integrate …
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The Unraveling Of America's Education System
… takes a critical look at the data that drives educational policies. This research project looks at the data at the national level as well as the regional levels in order to see if the data is functioning differently at the different levels. All data has been collected from the National …
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Constitutionally Confederated: Developing an Interstate Policy Diffusion Framework for K-12 STEM Education
… aspects) to reduce the dimensionality of the data at the elementary school, middle school, and the whole K-12 levels. Six principal components at each level, covering more than 80% of the total variance of the initial datasets, were used in hierarchical clustering. Comparing the …
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Investigation on multiple factors affecting English-language learners' reading achievement: hierarchical linear modeling approach
… levels. The data used for this study was from National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the reading portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The three- level hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis was employed to generate a model based on the student, …
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Nonfiction interests and reading habits of third grade students
… a push for informational text use in the areas of reading and writing. The Common Core State Standards was introduced in 2009 as an initiative to have all students, no matter where they live, be prepared for college and careers. Further the reading panel of the National Assessment of Educational …
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Using Science Read Alouds and Inquiry Activities to Enhance Student Writing in Family Message Journals
The results of the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress indicated that most students are not proficient writers and that science performance declined in the 1970’s, increased during the 1980’s and early 1990’s, and has been mostly stable since. Perhaps a way to correct some of these …
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The Impact of After School Tutoring on Math Achievement: Perceptions of African American Males and Those Who Teach Them
… American males continue to struggle in the area of mathematics. Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicates that eighth grade African American males had the lowest levels of mathematics success of all subgroups in 2013, with only 13% performing at or above the …
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Rational Number Fluency: A Prerequisite for Success in High School Mathematics Courses?
… compared that skill level with the skill level of middle school students by testing 147 high school seniors with 16 rational number word problems released from the National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments. The questions included equal amounts of fraction and money problems. The …
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Rational Number Fluency: A Prerequisite for Success in High School Mathematics Courses?
… compared that skill level with the skill level of middle school students by testing 147 high school seniors with 16 rational number word problems released from the National Assessment of Educational Progress assessments. The questions included equal amounts of fraction and money problems. The …
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Examining the effects of a peer-mediated academic intervention on the language and literacy performance on emergent bilingual students
… Spanish-speaking EBs constituted 76 percent of the EB population in the U.S. educational system (Office of English Language Acquisition, 2019). Although not all EBs are at risk for falling behind grade level proficiency in literacy, examination of the National Assessment of Educational …
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The achievement of business education students on high school core subjects
The importance of academic courses taken during high school has been well documented. It could determine the students’ achievement in high school, affect the students’ ability to transition to postsecondary education and expand the students’ choice of postsecondary majors and degree options (Laird, …
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