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Direct linkRoxy D. Glass – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was designed to investigate whether teacher literacy content knowledge affects student achievement in Texas schools. Teacher participants from Texas public schools completed a three-part survey. In Parts 1 and 2, teachers completed a demographic section and teacher knowledge of foundational reading skills. The survey consisted of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Peer reviewedCoventry, William; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Ellis, Elizabeth M.; Levisen, Christina; Byrne, Brian; van Daal, Victor H. P.; Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2012
We present one of the first behavior-genetic studies of individual differences in school students' levels of achievement in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). We assessed these language abilities in Australian twin pairs (maximum N pairs = 251) by means of teacher ratings, class rankings, and self-ratings of proficiency, and used the…
Descriptors: Twins, Second Language Learning, Genetics, Etiology
Download full textMurphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix – Centre for Economic Performance, 2013
We find an individual's rank within their reference group has effects on later objective outcomes. To evaluate the impact of local rank, we use a large administrative dataset tracking over two million students in England from primary through to secondary school. Academic rank within primary school has sizable, robust and significant effects on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Rank, Progress Monitoring, Effect Size
Potamites, Liz; Booker, Kevin; Chaplin, Duncan; Isenberg, Eric – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit organization committed to training school principals, heads the Effective Practices Incentive Community (EPIC), an initiative that offers financial awards to effective educators. Through this initiative, New Leaders offers financial awards to educators in two urban school districts and a consortium of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Awards
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
Educators act as advocates every day, and an advocate's greatest tool is credible information. The College Board and the Alliance for Excellent Education are pleased to announce a series of jointly produced fact sheets intended to arm educators and others with information they can use in advocating for their students, professions, and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Enrollment, Public Schools, School Size
