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Blaise, Jean G. – Urban Education, 2018
This article reports on a 3-year ethnographic study in a Boston Public school of the performance of Haitian students on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and its lasting and likely impact upon them. MCAS is a mandated exam required for students to graduate from high school. Although there are certain provisions for students…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, High School Students, Foreign Students
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Carlson, Marilyn P.; Madison, Bernard; West, Richard D. – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2015
The Calculus Concept Readiness (CCR) instrument assesses foundational understandings and reasoning abilities that have been documented to be essential for learning calculus. The CCR Taxonomy describes the understandings and reasoning abilities assessed by CCR. The CCR is a 25-item multiple-choice instrument that can be used as a placement test for…
Descriptors: Calculus, Learning Readiness, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Placement
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Engin, Melih – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The objective of the present study is to determine whether there is a significant relationship between the students' readiness in online learning and their emotional intelligence levels. Correlational research method was used in the study. Online Learning Readiness Scale which was developed by Hung et al. (2010) has been used and Trait Emotional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Learning Readiness, Emotional Intelligence
Sparks, Lynne Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online foreign language course offerings have grown exponentially in secondary and post-secondary schools during the last two decades. Although numerous instruments and surveys exist to assess readiness for a student to take online courses, insufficient research has dealt with the particularities of learning a foreign language online. This study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Online Courses, Prediction
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Macleod, Gale; Barnes, Tina; Huttly, Sharon R. A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The considerable focus on capturing the 'student experience' has not been matched by investigations into the views and experiences of those teaching and managing programmes. This study aims to contribute to redressing the balance. An online survey of staff responsible for Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes in the UK elicited 382 responses from…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Learning Readiness, Graduate Students, Time Management
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Buzdar, Muhammad Ayub; Ali, Akhtar; Tariq, Riaz Ul Haq – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Students' performance in online learning environments is associated with their readiness to adopt a digital learning approach. Traditional concept of readiness for online learning is connected with students' competencies of using technology for learning purposes. We in this research, however, investigated psychometric aspects of students'…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Learning Readiness, Electronic Learning, Psychometrics
Houston, Biaze L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research study examined how teachers self-report their levels of engagement, which factors they believe contribute most to their engagement, and which assumptions of andragogy most heavily influence teacher engagement in site-based professional development. This study employed a convergent parallel mixed methods design to study veteran…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Mixed Methods Research
Pearn, Catherine; Stephens, Max – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Researchers have argued that there are strong links between primary school students' competence with fraction concepts and operations and their algebraic readiness. This study involving 162 Years 5/6 students in three primary schools examined the strength of that relationship using a test based on familiar fraction tasks and a test of algebraic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Fractions, Predictor Variables, Algebra
Yagci, Mustafa; Alsancak Sirakaya, Didem; Özüdogru, Gül – Online Submission, 2015
The present study aims to investigate attitudes and readiness of Information and Communication Technologies pre-service teachers toward web-based learning. In the study group of the research are 165 pre-service teachers. The study was conducted in the survey model. As data collection tools, 'Web-based Teaching Attitude Scale' and 'Readiness and…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Ellington, Roni; Daniels, Beth; Orozco, Felicia; Santiago, Alicia; Arnold, Asia-Lige – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2021
The Twin Cities PBS "Ready to Learn" project focuses on the building of science and literacy skills of diverse students ages 5 to 8. It also promotes equity for historically underrepresented children in science (race-ethnic minorities, low-income children with disabilities, English Language Learners). The Transformative Transmedia…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Descriptions, Science Instruction, Literacy
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Simpson, Kerri L.; Wilson-Smith, Kevin – Psychology Teaching Review, 2017
This research explored the experience of five undergraduates who engaged with qualitative research as part of their final dissertation project. There have been concerns raised over the emotional safety of researchers carrying out qualitative research, which increases when researchers are inexperienced making this a poignant issues for lectures…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Learning Readiness, Qualitative Research
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Zakaria, Zuraimi; Care, Esther; Griffin, Patrick – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This paper revolves on the premise that teachers' adoption of developmental model is more likely to improve student learning and performance as compared to the utilization of deficit approach. Deficit or clinical approach to learning has the tendency to focus on things that students cannot do, thus followed by teacher prescriptions of a…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Models, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Layng, Joe; Redding, Sam – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2016
This field report is the seventh in a series produced by the Center on Innovations in Learning's League of Innovators. The series describes, discusses, and analyzes policies and practices that enable personalization in education. This report introduces sessions from the "Conversations with Innovators" event held at Temple University,…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing, Measurement Techniques, Academic Standards
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Kaur, Amrita; Noman, Mohammad; Awang-Hashim, Rosna – Teaching Education, 2019
Classroom assessment is central to effective teaching and learning, making assessment literacy a core component for teacher education. The present study explores self-reported, differentiated assessment practices of Malaysian in-service teachers. The practices were evaluated using an analytic framework that was developed based upon the existing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Student Evaluation, Assessment Literacy
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Vidmar, Maša; Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang; Hasselhorn, Marcus – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
The foundation of school success is laid early in children's lives. Consequently, assessments of academic precursors may help to identify children in need of additional support. Such early assessments could also be interesting from an international perspective when educational systems are compared. This analysis is used to inform on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis, Educational Indicators, Comparative Education
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