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Direct linkPrendergast, Barbara T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to examine a published language arts curriculum, determine how Anna Craft's possibility thinking framework could be integrated into the curriculum, and then observe how students responded to the implementation of lessons integrating the elements of possibility thinking. The findings…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Thomas, Garrett M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is currently much conversation on the issue of the achievement gap as scholars, politicians, and educational leaders continue to grapple with educational inequity and underperformance of students in urban neighborhoods who are mostly Black and Latinx as compared with higher performing students, mostly white, in suburban neighborhoods. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Middle School Students
Dillon, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Poverty has been identified as a barrier for at-risk student achievement across America. Can personalized competence-based learning provide at-risk students the skills and knowledge needed to close the achievement gap on the state assessment in Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA) for students after a two-year treatment? The…
Descriptors: Poverty, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Sydoruk, Paige D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Higher order thinking skills have been embedded into state teaching standards, including Standard 9 of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) for 21st Century Life and Careers. These standards aim to encourage problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, and real-world application in order to prepare students for the workplace…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Thinking Skills, State Standards
Lee, Alice Tae – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study addressed the problem of chronic low student achievement in language arts at a Program Improvement 5+ school by implementing two cycles of facilitated lesson study. Using action research to facilitate and monitor change in instructional practices at a school that is currently undergoing a teacher-initiated turnaround reform effort, this…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Language Arts, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
McFadden, Pamela J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With budget cuts and the heavy emphasis placed in recent years on student achievement in language arts and mathematics, arts instruction has been greatly reduced in California elementary schools. Yet the research literature has shown arts instruction to be associated with improved literacy skills (Bransford & Schwartz, 1999). Podlozny (2002),…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Control Groups, Theater Arts, Student Attitudes
