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Amy Isley Chupp – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research has shown that teaching students a growth mindset increased their growth mindset and academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to determine if implementing growth mindset interventions with elementary school students increased their growth mindset and affected their math achievement. In this quantitative study, the school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Achievement, World Views, Individual Development
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Angela Johnson – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Dual language education aims to foster the development of bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and academic skills in all school subjects. Early correlational research suggests that participation in dual language education is associated with higher achievement. Recent studies leveraged more comprehensive sets…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Hispanic American Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
Angela Johnson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
This paper reports math and reading academic achievement and growth in grades 2 to 8 for Hispanic participants and nonparticipants of a Spanish-English dual language program. I apply a piecewise multilevel growth model to administrative data from a large school district that enrolls a substantial English Learner student population. Dual language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Hispanic American Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Diamantopoulou, Sofia; Pina, Violeta; Valero-Garcia, Ana V.; Gonzalez-Salinas, Carmen; Fuentes, Luis J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
This study validated the four mathematics tests of the Spanish version of the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III) Achievement (ACH) battery for use in the first six grades of school in Spain. Developmental effects and gender differences were also examined. Participants were a normal population sample of 424 (216 boys) children aged 6 to 13 years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Huang, Denise; Leon, Seth; La Torre, Deborah; Mostafavi, Sima – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
Researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in the impact of afterschool programs on youth development. Even though numerous studies have investigated the impact of afterschool participation on academic outcomes, there is limited research on the differential impact of afterschool programs based on students' participation rate. This…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Testing
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Booth, Julie L.; Siegler, Robert S. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined developmental and individual differences in pure numerical estimation, the type of estimation that depends solely on knowledge of numbers. Children between kindergarten and 4th grade were asked to solve 4 types of numerical estimation problems: computational, numerosity, measurement, and number line. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Individual Development, Numbers, Computation