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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"instructional decisions"”.
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An Investigation of How Elementary School Teachers Make Data-Driven Instructional Decisions in Literacy
… study was to explore the data-driven instructional decisions that elementary teachers make in literacy. Educators have moved towards a culture of being data-driven, and have declared data use in schools to be significant to school improvement and accountability. Yet, as school …
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Instructional decisions guided by student performance: the case of an exemplary elementary science teacher
… teacher used classroom assessments to inform instructional decisions during the act of science teaching. Within the axioms of a naturalistic inquiry (see Chapter 3), a “bounded system” (Merriam, 2009) case study was used to conceptualize this inquiry: one elementary teacher and her third grade …
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The Effect Of Academic Coaches On Teachers' Effective Use Of Data For Instructional Decisions
… information can be gleaned from the data? What instructional changes based on data occur? Professional development, the nature of coaching, and their effect on teacher use of data have not been adequately treated in educational literature. This study will be based on an evaluation of an academic …
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Teacher Performance in the Nongraded Elementary Schools of Central Washington
… teachers to operate more freely with respect to instructional decisions."</p>
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Assessment in Secondary Environments: How Co-Teachers Navigate the Competing Demands of Theory, Policy, and Practice
… that teachers’ perceptions influence their instructional decisions, which includes the planning and implementation of assessment in the classroom. Also, co-teachers in secondary, inclusive classrooms have a particularly challenging task as ability levels in their classrooms vary greatly.</p> …
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If at First, You Don’t Succeed: Instructional and Institutional Responses for Students Who Fail a High-Stakes Mathematics Exam in High School
… context in which teachers operate and make instructional decisions. In focusing on teachers, the intent of this study was to understand the dual roles of teachers as instructors and policy enactors, and how the state’s testing policy impacts the instructional decisions teachers make in their …
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An exploratory qualitative study of science teachers’ instructional decision-making in relation to “coherence”
Teachers’ use of strategies to build coherent instructional sequences is important in student learning (Roth et. al., 2011). Previous studies investigated teachers’ ability to design or distinguish coherent instructional sequences. However, teachers’ ability to distinguish coherent instructional …
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Retellings and Semi-Structured Interviews for Assessing Reading Comprehension of Standardized Test Passages and of the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress Passages as Compared to Scores on Multiple-Choice Test Items
… to the irrelevancy of test scores in making instructional decisions.
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Exploring math teachers' own classroom experiences with deciding how to respond in the moment to student understanding
… understanding of math ideas. In-the-moment instructional decisions are essential for helping students develop a conceptual understanding of important math ideas (Carpenter et al., 2003; NCTM, 2000). However, math instruction centered on rote learning and memorization dominates U.S. …
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Multiple Measures of Reading Assessment and the Effects on Data-Driven Instruction
… to the use of only one data source when making instructional decisions.
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Designing for, learning with, and teaching using computational modeling
… activities. The third article investigates the instructional decisions a teacher made while implementing the ILE. By comparing her implementation to the curriculum and conducting follow-up interviews, the characterized the many factors that interacted to influence the decisions a teacher made as …
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Improving Decoding: A Multiple Case Study of Fourth Grade Striving Readers
… must use professional judgment to make instructional decisions, c) there are degrees of explicitness needed during instruction, and d) there is a need for continued intervention by an expert reading teacher. Additionally, intrusions that affected intervention were identified.
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Teaching English Learners in Middle Grades: A Mixed Method Study of the Dispositions, Priorities, and Instructional Practices of Urban Bilingual, ESL, and Content Teachers
… teachers; their professional development; their instructional decisions related to language and literacy development; and the factors that influence these decisions. Study results aided the formulation of district, school, and teacher level recommendations based on the belief that without …
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Modeling Distributions of Test Scores with Mixtures of Beta Distributions
… score distributions are used to make important instructional decisions about students. The test scores usually do not follow a normal distribution. In some cases, the scores appear to follow a bimodal distribution that can be modeled with a mixture of beta distributions. This bimodality may be …
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NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL CURRICULUM DECISIONS, CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION AND TEACHER JOB SATISFACTION IN DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS
… local educational setting: (1) local curriculum decisions (2) teaching decisions as they relate to daily instruction (3) potential narrowing of the curriculum and (4) teacher job satisfaction. All public schools in the United States are now subject to the mandates of NCLB. This legislation marked …
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Under which conditions does reading attitude most influence reading achievement?
… comprehensive representation of the reader, and instructional decisions based on this narrow view can undermine students’ motivation and weaken achievement. Attitude has been associated with achievement, but using reading attitude data could be more useful if the relationship between reading …
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Supporting Kindergartners’ Writing Development Through the Use of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study: A Self Study
… of the daily lesson and a reflection upon my instructional decisions. As a result of my research, I concluded that I could support my students’ writing development by crafting and modifying the mini lessons and conference topics, extending the time frame of specific lessons, assuming a more …
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Continuity and Change: Curriculum and Instruction in the World History Classroom
… and how these contexts affected the curricular-instructional decisions and pedagogical practices of four world history teachers. Initially, I planned to study the effects of teacher knowledge, specifically content knowledge, on the teacher-curriculum relationship. However, the focus shifted to …
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An expert mathematics teacher educator's noticing of preservice teachers' mathematical and pedagogical thinking : a qualitative case study.
… students’ thinking for the purposes of making instructional decisions. Mathematics teacher educators are responsible for the development of both mathematics content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, often within teacher preparation programs. Therefore, the focus of mathematics …
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Design of a teacher education model that improves teacher educator efficiency in processing teacher candidate data
… ability to use teacher candidate data to inform instructional decisions and substantiate discussion point during group debrief sessions.
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