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How Teachers Mobilize and Transform Their Conceptualizations of Reading Comprehension into Representations of Instructional Practice
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McElhone, Dot; Tenore, F. Blake; Davis, Dennis S. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
This research examines the specialized knowledge of reading comprehension articulated by 12 middle school English language arts teachers sampled from three different regions of the United States and representing various levels of teaching experience. Using detailed interviews, concept mapping, and think aloud methods, we identified salient…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
Governing Schooling through "What Works": The OECD's PISA for Schools
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Lewis, Steven – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper explores Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools, a local variant of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD's) influential PISA that not only assesses an individual school's performance in reading, mathematics and science against international schooling systems, but also promotes 17…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Educational History, Achievement Tests
Enhancing Learning Management Systems Utility for Blind Students: A Task-Oriented, User-Centered, Multi-Method Evaluation Technique
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Babu, Rakesh; Singh, Rahul – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
This paper presents a novel task-oriented, user-centered, multi-method evaluation (TUME) technique and shows how it is useful in providing a more complete, practical and solution-oriented assessment of the accessibility and usability of Learning Management Systems (LMS) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) students. Novel components of TUME…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Blindness, Visual Impairments, Accessibility (for Disabled)