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Wei, Xin; Marder, Camille – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Developmental trajectories of two self-concept constructs (self-confidence and importance beliefs) in three domains (academic, social, and self-image) were estimated in a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 students with disabilities ages 8 to 17 representing 11 federal disability categories. Students' self-confidence in the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Racial Differences, Concept Formation, Self Concept
Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ3), 2008
A case study of one child, Alicia, is used to explore how children's identities as readers are constructed across time as they move thorough school. Attention to time helps us attend to how students draw on ongoing, familial, and historical resources in ways that are both recursive and future-oriented as they construct themselves as readers across…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies