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Maki, Kathrin E.; Burns, Matthew K.; Sullivan, Amanda – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Learning disability (LD) identification has long been controversial and has undergone substantive reform. This study examined the consistency of school psychologists' LD identification decisions across three identification methods and across student evaluation data conclusiveness levels. Data were collected from 376 practicing school psychologists…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
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Meghan McCormick; Hope White; Parham Horn; Rachel Lacks; Erin O'Connor; Elise Cappella; Sandee McClowry – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study investigated how mean classroom-level shyness scores moderated the impacts of "INSIGHTS" into "Children's Temperament" on instructional support and students' math and reading skills in kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms. "INSIGHTS" is a temperament-based social-emotional learning…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Student Characteristics
Garwood, Justin D.; Varghese, Cheryl; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Although evidence of negative associations between early literacy development and children's behavior problems exists, the field still lacks an understanding of the complicated links between these two areas. Children's gender has often not been included in much of the extant research as a potential moderating variable, yet gender differences may…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior
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Boyle, Robert W.; Farreras, Ingrid G. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2015
This experiment tested the effect that calculator use had on 200 randomly assigned college students' mathematical performance. The purposes of the current experiment were twofold: to measure the level of mathematical preparation of current college students, and to test whether calculators improve mathematical performance in such students as it…
Descriptors: Calculators, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Achievement
Gardenhire, Alissa; Diamond, John; Headlam, Camielle; Weiss, Michael J. – MDRC, 2016
Community colleges nationwide are looking for solutions to help students complete developmental (remedial) math--a known barrier to graduation. Some are offering computer-assisted, modular developmental math courses that allow students to earn credits incrementally and move through the curriculum at their own pace. One of these modularized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Community Colleges, Computer Software, Control Groups
Joshua M. Langberg; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Stephen J. Molitor; Elizaveta Bourchtein; Laura D. Eddy; Zoe R. Smith; Lauren E. Oddo; Hana-May Eadeh – Grantee Submission, 2017
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of 2 brief school-based interventions targeting the homework problems of adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--the Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) intervention and the Completing Homework by Improving Efficiency and Focus (CHIEF) intervention, as implemented by…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Theory Practice Relationship, Intervention, Homework
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Hanley, Pam; Slavin, Robert; Elliott, Louise – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTS) is a programme that aims to make science lessons in primary schools more practical, creative and challenging. Teachers are trained in a repertoire of strategies that aim to encourage pupils to use higher order thinking skills. For example, pupils are posed 'Big Questions,' such as 'How do you know that the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Bouchet, Francois; Harley, Jason M.; Trevors, Gregory J.; Azevedo, Roger – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2013
In this paper, we present the results obtained using a clustering algorithm (Expectation-Maximization) on data collected from 106 college students learning about the circulatory system with MetaTutor, an agent-based Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) designed to foster self-regulated learning (SRL). The three extracted clusters were validated and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Individualized Instruction
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Lloyd, Cheryl; Edovald, Triin; Kiss, Zsolt; Morris, Stephen; Skipp, Amy; Ahmed, Hashim – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
Paired Reading is a peer tutoring programme in secondary schools which trains teachers to support and encourage the regular tutoring of Year 7 pupils (aged 11-12 years) by Year 9 pupils (aged 13-14 years). The Paired Reading programme aims to improve pupils' general literacy in addition to speaking and listening skills. This is achieved by pupils…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Aloud to Others, Peer Teaching
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Horz, Holger; Elen, Jan; Schnotz, Wolfgang – World Journal of Education, 2011
Learning environments commonly offer aids to address learners' lack of knowledge or skills. However, learners are not or sub-optimally using these aids when these are non-embedded or segregated (Aleven, Stahl, Schworm, Fischer, & Wallace, 2003; Clarebout & Elen, 2006). This lack of optimal usage has been related to variables as…
Descriptors: Interaction, Student Characteristics, College Students, Randomized Controlled Trials