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Marshall, Jeff C. – ASCD, 2019
Do you sense that some students have mentally "checked out" of your classroom? Look closely and you will probably find that these students are bored by lessons that they view as unchallenging and uninteresting. In this follow-up to "The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom-Tested Practices That Foster Student Success," Jeff…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Classroom Environment
Blackburn, Barbara R. – Eye on Education, 2021
Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K-12 classroom. In this essential book, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help you move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. You'll learn: (1) how to create a remote culture of high expectations; (2) how to…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Difficulty Level, Student Motivation, Distance Education
Blackburn, Barbara R. – Eye on Education, 2018
Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Barbara R. Blackburn offers practical ideas for raising expectations, increasing complexity, integrating scaffolding into instruction, creating open-ended choices and projects, and much more. This timely…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Chall, Jeanne S.; Bissex, Glenda L.; Conard, Sue S.; Harris-Sharples, Susan – 1996
This book presents a method for the qualitative assessment of text difficulty, a method that relies on a total impression rather than on an analysis of text features. The method is based on matching samples of text to exemplars that have been scaled for comprehension difficulty. These exemplars range in difficulty from those suitable for the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Qualitative Research
Stahl, Katherine A. Dougherty, Ed.; McKenna, Michael C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2006
This book presents state-of-the-science research on the components of successful literacy learning and how to target them in contemporary classrooms. The volume builds on and extends the work of Steven Stahl, whose pioneering contributions encompassed the key areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assessment.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Teaching Methods
Reynolds, Rodney, Ed.; Woods, Robert, Ed.; Baker, Jason, Ed. – Idea Group Publishing, 2007
The "Handbook of Research on Electronic Surveys and Measurements" is the comprehensive reference source for innovative knowledge on electronic surveys. This commanding handbook of research provides complete coverage of the challenges associated with the use of the Internet to develop online surveys, administer Web-based instruments, and conduct…
Descriptors: Surveys, Evaluation Research, Computer Assisted Testing, Measurement Techniques