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Russak, Susie; Kahn-Horwitz, Janina – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
This study examined English as a foreign language (EFL) spelling development amongst 233 fifth-grade, eighth-grade and 10th-grade Hebrew first-language speakers to examine effects of English orthographic exposure on spelling. Good and poor speller differences were examined regarding the acquisition of novel phonemes (/ae/, /?/ and /?/) and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Spelling, Grade 5, Grade 8
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Smith, Katie A.; Ayres, Kevin M.; Mechling, Linda C.; Alexander, Jennifer L.; Mataras, Theologia K.; Shepley, Sally B. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2015
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a system of least prompts procedure with a video prompt serving as the model in teaching office tasks to three high school students with moderate intellectual disability. A multiple probe across behaviors design replicated across participants was used to evaluate the intervention. The…
Descriptors: Cues, Prompting, High School Students, Video Technology
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Bowen, Daniel H.; Cheng, Albert – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
Studies consistently show that Catholic schools produce positive impacts on educational outcomes. Many charter school networks in the United States now provide, what are essentially, secularized versions of the Catholic education model. However, charter schools cannot legally replicate the overt religious curriculum and mission of Catholic…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Cues, Catholic Schools
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Haim, Orly – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors predicting academic proficiency (AP), the specialised domains required for performing academic tasks, among Russian speaking (L1) immigrants currently studying Hebrew as a second language (L2) and English as a third language (L3) in Israeli schools. Specifically, the study examined the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Lawanto, Oenardi – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2011
The objective of this study was to describe the task interpretation of students engaged in a design activity and determine the extent to which students translate their understanding of their design task to their planning and cognitive strategies. Twenty-nine students at one Colorado high school participated in this study. Students worked…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Engineering, Instructional Design, Building Design
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Schroeders, Ulrich; Wilhelm, Oliver; Bucholtz, Nina – Intelligence, 2010
Receptive foreign language proficiency is usually measured with reading and listening comprehension tasks. A novel approach to assess such proficiencies--viewing comprehension--is based on the presentation of short instructional videos followed by one or more comprehension questions concerning the preceding video stimulus. In order to evaluate a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Intelligence, Psychometrics