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Getting Developmental Science Back Into Schools: Can What We Know About Self-Regulation Help Change How We Think About “No Excuses”?
(Frontiers Media SA, 2019-08-21)Research from education, psychology, and human development indicates that social and emotional skills are essential to success in school, work, and life, and that high-quality social and emotional learning (SEL) programs ... -
The Global Partnership for Education’s evolving support to fragile and conflict-affected states
(Elsevier BV, 2015)In this study, we trace the history of policy development within the Global Partnership for Education to discern the drivers behind the uptake of its shifting policies relating to education in fragile and conflict-affected ... -
How Can Released State Test Items Support Interim Assessment Purposes in an Educational Crisis?
(Wiley, 2020-08-27)State testing programs regularly release previously administered test items to the public. We provide an open-source recipe for state, district, and school assessment coordinators to combine these items flexibly to produce ... -
How Changes in Students' Goal Orientations Relate to Outcomes in Social Studies
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2006)Do students tend to set similar types of goals throughout the school year, or do their goal orientations shift over time? If students become more oriented toward mastery or performance over the course of the year, do they ... -
How Do American Students Measure Up? Making Sense of International Comparisons
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How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
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How iconic are Chinese characters?
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)The study explores the notion that some Chinese characters contain pictorial indications of meanings that can be used to help retrieve the referent. Thirty adults with no prior knowledge of Chinese guessed the meanings of ... -
How Paradigms Create Politics: The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2013)American educational policy was rapidly transformed between 1980 and 2001. Accountability was introduced into a sphere that had long been loosely coupled, both major political parties reevaluated longstanding positions, ... -
'I Find Myslef as Someone Who Is in the Forest': Urban Refugess as Agents of Social Change in Kampala, Uganda
(2006)An in-depth investigation of the Kampala Urban Refugee Children's Education Centre (KURCEC), a refugee-initiated community-based organization in Uganda, allows for detailed exploration of the livelihood strategies employed ... -
The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
(Elsevier, 2012)We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an instrumental variable estimation ... -
The impact of private provision of public education: Empirical evidence from Bogota's concession schools
(2006)In 1999, the city of Bogotá, Colombia launched the Concession School program designed to broaden the coverage and quality of basic education. It consists of a contract between a group of private schools and the public ... -
Implementing Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits in California
(2009)Risk-limiting post-election audits limit the chance of certifying an electoral outcome if the outcome is not what a full hand count would show. Building on previous work, we report on pilot risk-limiting audits in four ... -
The Importance of Reading Difficulties and Family in Teachers' Decisions to Retain Children: A Case Study in Costa Rica
(University of Oviedo, 2005)Grade retention in many countries is the de facto remediation policy for children who have academic difficulties in first grade. For example, 14.9 percent of first graders repeated in Costa Rica in 2002. This study describes ... -
Improving educational achievement and anaemia of school children: design of a cluster randomised trial of school-based malaria prevention and enhanced literacy instruction in Kenya
(2010)Background: Improving the health of school-aged children can yield substantial benefits for cognitive development and educational achievement. However, there is limited experimental evidence on the benefits of school-based ... -
Improving reading comprehension, science domain knowledge, and reading engagement through a first-grade content literacy intervention.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2021-01)This study investigated the effectiveness of the Model of Reading Engagement (MORE), a content literacy intervention, on first graders’ science domain knowledge, reading engagement, and reading comprehension. The MORE ... -
Improving Seventh Grade Students' Learning of Ratio and Proportion: The Role of Schema-Based Instruction
(2009)The present study evaluated the effectiveness of an instructional intervention (schema-based instruction, SBI) that was designed to meet the diverse needs of middle school students by addressing the research literatures ... -
Improving Students' Proportional Thinking Using Schema-Based Instruction
(2011)This study investigated the effectiveness of an instructional program (schema-based instruction, SBI) designed to teach 7th graders how to comprehend and solve proportion problems involving ratios/rates, scale drawings, ...