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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"student assessments"”.
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Sex bias in student assessments
Previous research examining sex bias in student assessments has focused on the differential evaluation of final year project marks (Bradley 1984, 1993, 1994; Newstead and Dennis 1990, 1993; Hartley 1992, 1994) and the pattern of degrees (Rudd 1984, Belsey 1988) awarded to male and female students. …
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Differentiated instruction in a Seventh-day Adventist primary Sabbath school classroom : a mixed methods action research study
… and perceptions of both the teacher and students regarding differentiated instruction (DI) in a children's Sabbath school classroom at a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church in the Midwestern United States. Guided by Tomlinson's DI framework, the study focused on two main research …
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The relationship between thematic teacher teaming and its effects upon student achievement and cross-curricula cohesiveness
… thematic teacher teaming and its effects upon student achievement and cross-curricula cohesiveness. The data were collected from a teacher questionnaire, student group discussions, school attendance and test scores, student assessments, and field notes. These various methods produced …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… has been unsatisfactory. Estimates from regional student assessments across the world reveal that millions of school going children have failed to acquire even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills. This has serious policy implications as recent studies have shown that the quality of …
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Effects of Online Parental Remediation in Alternative School Mathematics
… algebraic content and parental self-efficacy and students’ mathematical achievement in alternative education. The population of this study consisted of a group of 28 parents and their children who were students enrolled in an alternative school in the Southeastern United States. Multiple forms of …
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THERE’S A METHOD TO MY MADNESS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCIENCE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION AND PLANNING OF INQUIRY IN URBAN SECONDARY CLASSROOMS
… of shifting science teaching to better engage students. This study offers a qualitative analysis of teachers’ perceptions and implementation of inquiry-based teaching in secondary classrooms by examining perceptions, co-planning, assessment selection, and classroom instruction. By using survey …
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Games for vocabulary enrichment: teaching multilingual writers at the college level
… including qualitative data in the form of student journals and quantitative data in the form of student assessments. It is also action research that reflects a novice teacher's experience of adapting a game activity to make it more effective for learning academic vocabulary. The study is …
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The Cumulation of Relationships
… school, and teacher relationships have on student success. The purpose of this ethnography is rooted in my progressive understanding of how to become an effective and socially just educator in Lincoln Heights. Through an impeccable experience in my very own classroom, I was able to capture …
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Planning, Preparing, and Implementing a One-to-One Computing Initiative in K-12 Education: A Case Study of a School Division's Journey Toward a One-to-One Computing Environment for Students and Staff
… as district leadership analyzes ways to improve student learning and create 21st century learning spaces. Studying how school divisions planned, prepared, implemented and sustained a one-to-one computing initiative is an important step that school leaders must do in order to help foster learning …
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Investigating the Professional Values of Teachers: The Differential Impact of Accountability on Teachers' Career Decisions
… of accountability reform (e.g., the influence of student assessments on curriculum; teaching; and salary and benefits), are related to teachers' decisions to change schools or exit the job of teaching, particularly by gender and by age (generation). Overall, after life-course related reasons …
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Mathematical comprehension facilitated by situation models: Learning opportunities for inverse relations in elementary school
… curriculum and instruction, has resulted in students being faced with more cognitively high-demanding tasks which involve forming connections within and between fundamental mathematical concepts. Because mathematical comprehension generally relates back to one’s ability to form connections to …
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A tale of two grades: an evaluation of Grading for Learning, a middle school grading reform
… a knowledge grade, which was based primarily on student assessments, and a life skills grade, which was based on a rubric that assigned scores for effort, behavior and timeliness. The evaluation studied the perceptions of students and staff regarding the separation of the two grades, if they …
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An Examination of Third and Fourth Grade TCAP Scores and the Universal Breakfast Program in Unicoi County Tennessee.
… Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) of students enrolled in Unicoi County Schools, that offers a universal breakfast program, compared with mean scores of students in both public and private schools in the state of Tennessee during the 2007-2008 school year. Test results of 404 Unicoi …
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Examination of factors contributing to the achievement gap of Native American students in select school districts in Michigan
<p>Most of the studies on student achievement gaps involve the Black-White achievement gap due to the availability of significant sample populations in order to draw scientific conclusions from the analysis of the student achievement data. However, there are few empirical quantitative studies that …
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Effects of the Beanfee token economy software on students´ persistent problem behavior and lack of academic engagement
… persistent behavioral problems of middle school students. Participants were three boys and one girl, ages 11–13, exhibiting excessive disruptive behavior and lack of academic engagement, in four classrooms in a public school in the capital area of Iceland. Individualized Beanfee programs were …
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Student science achievement and the integration of indigenous knowledge in the classroom and on standardized tests
… has been little research focused on indigenous students' achievement on science standardized tests when indigenous knowledge is integrated into the test questions. However, there has been an increased amount of research investigating the impact of culturally relevant curriculum adaptations on …
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Developing a Comprehensive Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP) Model for Southwest Texas State University
… United States with a minimum enrollment of 8,000 students are evaluated using the proposed COAP model. Two hundred sixty-one surveys were distributed, with ninety-four returned. A secondary method of evaluation included the analyses of institutional web pages, based on the web addresses provided …