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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"high-ability"”.
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Non-cognitive attributes : correlations to high ability students' academic achievement
Using identified high ability students’ survey data and NWEA reading and math achievement scores from four Indiana school districts, this study investigated the relationship between students’ perceptions of growth mindset and grit and academic achievement while controlling for teacher feedback, …
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Social and Emotional Factors and Achievement Patterns Amongst High Ability Learners
… was composed of five students at the middle and high school levels who had been previously identified as gifted. Additionally, another 17 participants (parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, and one school board member) were included in the study to lend further insight into the …
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Accelerated Mathematics and High-Ability Students Math Achievement in Grades Three and Four.
… achievement tests of third and fourth grade high-ability students. Gender, socioeconomic status, and grade level were also considered. The population consisted of 624 students who were third and fourth grade high-ability students during the 2009-2010 school year. Data were gathered that …
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Making the college choice: a phenomenological study of high-ability engineering students of color
… the decision-making process and the factors high-ability students of color use in choosing a college at which to study engineering. Hossler and Gallagher's (1987) 3-phase model on college choice was explored to understand how the participants' college selection experiences relate to the …
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Access to and Success Within High Ability Tracks in Title I Schools: The International Baccalaureate
… rates of students in Title I schools offering high academic ability tracks such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and explored access to these high ability tracks. Results indicate that the IBDP is available to low-income and minority students in Title I schools, …
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The relationship of socio-cultural contextual factors in schools with academic achievement in adolescents of high ability
… 5 on at least one Advanced Placement exam, and high school context, opportunities for social support and advanced academics, and district support for high ability students in grades K-12. Using school and district-level data from the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), district level data on …
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Fourth-Grade Narrative Fiction Writing: Using Content Analysis to Examine the Intersection of Place, High Ability, and Creativity
Writing gives children a chance to practice self-expression and creativity (Dobson, 2015b; Millard, 2005) as they learn needed literacy skills (Calkins, 2003). When children write, they appropriate semiotic materials from popular culture, literature, and the world around them (Dyson, 1997, 2003, …
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Academic self-concept and possible selves of high-ability African American males attending a specialized school for gifted and talented high school students.
… at the temporal and multidimensional self in high-ability African American males attending a specialized school for high-ability youth. Interviews were conducted with 9 students. Results provided details about the hoped-for and feared selves the young men envisioned as well as the strategies …
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An exploration of the sense of school belonging, connectedness and life satisfaction of students from a residential high ability high school, differentiated by sexual orientation and gender identity
… has been conducted on the intersection of high ability and sexual orientation and/or gender identity/gender expression, particularly as it pertains to school belonging and overall life satisfaction. Using Self Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan, 2008) as a framework, this study presents an …
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The GREAT Reading Project (Gifted Readers Enhance Academic Talent): a gifted-on-gifted, cross-age tutoring and mentoring intervention
… achievement for each group involved, including high-ability gifted fifth grade mentors, high-ability gifted first grade protégés, and above-average first grade “Scholastic Academy” protégés. Its primary goal was to improve academic achievement for above-average students in order to help them …
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Essays in informal finance and market design under weak institutions
… A Debt Trap for Informal Lending -- 2. Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design In The Field -- 3. Voluntary Market Design: Dominant Individual Rationality.
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Effects of Video and Cognitive Imagery on Throwing Performance of Baseball Pitchers: A Single Subject Design
… in accuracy response existed in low verses high ability imagers. A sample of pitchers (n=30) were asked to take the Movement Imagery Questionnaire- Revised and participants were randomly selected from the highest and lowest twenty percent of the group. The participants were obtained from …
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A Critical Ethnography of Pupil Resistance to Authority: How Pupil and Teacher Identities Create Spaces of Resistance in the Contemporary School
… a critical ethnographic method to examine how high ability pupils in a comprehensive school in an area of relative social deprivation express resistance to authority. The identities which teachers adopt in response to pupil resistance are also critically examined. The focus of the study is a …
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Ability and motivation in the new world of work : a study of socio-demographic characteristics among school leavers entering the labour market
… along two dimensions on a four quadrant space: high ability/ high motivation; high ability/ low motivation; low ability/ high motivation; and low ability/ low motivation. Using spatial analysis, this study will explore how these different quadrants are best represented thus extracting patterns …
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Effects of Administrator Implemented Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Grouping on Reading Achievement of Selected Sixth-Grade Students
… reported that the average achievement score of high-school students on most standardized tests is lower now than it was a quarter of a century ago, and the majority of the brightest students fail to achieve according to their ability. A salient problem in educating pupils is that of attaining …
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INCORPORATING A SMALL-GROUP AFFECTIVE CURRICULUM MODEL INTO A DIVERSE, SUMMER PROGRAM FOR TALENTED YOUTH: A DESIGN BASED RESEARCH STUDY
… in the affective curriculum influenced high-ability students' social and emotional development and to use the results to refine the GERI Affective Model before dissemination. This research included two phases, an initial design phase in 2012 to 2013 and an outcome study in 2014. In the …
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… despite spending 8 hours in bed. Their sleep is highly interrupted, with sleep efficiency—sleep per time in bed—comparable to those with disorders such as sleep apnea or insomnia. A randomized three-week treatment providing information, encouragement, and improvements to home sleep environments …
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Re-conceptualising How We Respond to Secondary Gifted Learners' Needs: A Critical Narrative and ANT Approach Investigating Programming and Placement Within Ontario's Current Public Education System
… & Stambaugh, 2014; Gallagher, 2000). Critical disability theorists have made significant advancements toward more socially just systems of education for individuals with exceptionalities who have been stigmatized for their impairments by investigating the attitudinal, structural, and political …
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Two Essays on Consumer Responses to (Un)Ethical Brand Behavior
… Support Well-Intentioned Brands More Than High-Ability Brands Following Identical Moral Transgressions,” focuses on consumers’ post-transgression support for brands that are well- intentioned or high-ability. I find that consumers consistently show greater support for a well-intentioned …
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