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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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Examining the Relationship between Technology & Engineering Instruction and Technology & Engineering Literacy in K-8 Education
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between technology and engineering instruction and technology and engineering literacy in grades K-8. The factors identified and used for the purpose of this study were gender, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and important modes of …
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Adoption, implementation, and reality : an explanatory sequential mixed methods study of the novice teacher experience implementing a knowledge-building curriculum.
Student performance on national and state assessment metrics signals a concern regarding our nation's current literacy performance. Four key data metrics signal this crisis: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP; National Center for Educational Statistics, 2021), American College Test …
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Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill, text characteristics, and reading strategies
<p>Studies by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, 2009) indicate that the inability to comprehend text is one of the primary reasons students perform poorly in school Reading difficulties often persist into adulthood with 23% of U.S. adults only meeting basic reading proficiency …
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Opportunity, but at what cost? African-American parents' experiences in a predominantly white school
<p>National measures of student achievement, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), provide evidence of the gap in success between African-American and white students. Despite national calls for increased school accountability and focus on achievement gaps, many …
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The Impact of Reading Programs as a Map Project Strategy
<p>The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 was enacted to protect the United States' most vulnerable students and was signed into law in January 2002 (U.S. Department of Education, 2002). For many years, black, Hispanic, special education, and limited English proficient students were not …
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Implementing professional learning communities to improve student writing achievement
… to enhance student learning and teacher professional development. Professional learning communities (PLCs) implemented in a school setting can increase collaboration and improve instruction and learning if focused on three essential characteristics: student learning, teacher collaboration, …
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WHY DO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATE-MEASURED ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AND NATIONALLY-MEASURED ACHIEVEMENT GAPS EXIST?
… first research question requires that the degree of difference, the differential quotient, is determined. For the purposes of this dissertation, I calculated the reported achievement gaps between white and black fourth graders for the years 2005, 2007, and 2009 on the individual state reading and …
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The impact of no child left behind (nclb) on school achievement and accountability
<p>Spurred by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, virtually every educational reform program now includes an accountability component that requires sound data collection and reporting (NCLB, 2002, section 101). Drawing from empirically based and theoretical literature in the field, this …
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