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Relationships among Teachers' Formal and Informal Positions and Their Incoming Student Composition
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Kim, Chong Min; Frank, Kenneth A.; Spillane, James P. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: While some commentators view education as a social mobility mechanism, many scholars argue that schools reproduce rather than challenge social inequality. A vast literature on the role of family background and educational stratification identifies various factors that help account for how schools contribute to reproducing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship
Measuring First Graders' Growth on Word Identification Fluency: A Prognosis for Later Performance?
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Allen, Caitlan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Background and Objective: Research has repeatedly found that students who have not developed sufficient reading skills by the third grade have lower rates of high school graduation and post high school outcomes. A growing body of literature has examined how the use of curriculum-based measurements (CBMs) can be used to identify these struggling…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Screening Tests, Reading Skills
Multisyllabic Word Reading as a Moderator of Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension
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Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Goodwin, Amanda P.; Compton, Donald L.; Kearns, Devin M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the relation between morphological awareness on reading comprehension is moderated by multisyllabic word reading ability in fifth-grade students ("N" = 169, 53.7% female, 65.2% minority status, 69.2% free/reduced lunch status), oversampled for poor reading skill, when controlling for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Morphology (Languages), Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties
The Superintendent's Influence on Student Achievement
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Plotts, Timothy; Gutmore, Daniel – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between the length of superintendent tenure, longevity, and continuity relative to student achievement as evidenced by the 2008-2009 Grade 3 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) in Language Arts. The researcher focused on New Jersey school districts in the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Academic Achievement, Tenure, Administrator Effectiveness
Teacher Evaluation Tools: An Examination of Wyoming Evaluation Models as a Predictor of Student Achievement
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Gilbert, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between teacher quality, student characteristics, teacher attributes, and student growth in reading. The legislation requirements enacted with NCLB (2002), WAEA (2013), and Chapter 29 (Wyoming Department of Education, 2010) necessitated that student achievement be a primary consideration…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
Do Some Schools Narrow the Gap? Differential School Effectiveness Revisited
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Strand, Steve – Review of Education, 2016
Relatively little research has explored whether schools differ in their effectiveness for different group of pupils (e.g. by ethnicity, poverty or gender), for different curriculum subjects (e.g. English, mathematics or science) or over time (different cohorts). This paper uses multilevel modelling to analyse the national test results at age 7 and…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Children, Elementary School Students