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Designing Non-Cognitive Construct Measures That Improve Mathematics Achievement in Grade 5-6 Learners. A User-Centered Approach
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Chatterji, Madhabi; Lin, Meiko – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design and iteratively improve the quality of survey-based measures of three non-cognitive constructs for Grade 5-6 students, keeping in mind information needs of users in education reform contexts. The constructs are: Mathematics-related Self-Efficacy, Self-Concept, and Anxiety (M-SE, M-SC, and M-ANX).…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Grade 5
Achievement Gaps and Correlates of Early Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from the ECLS K-First Grade Sample
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Chatterji, Madhabi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
In light of the NCLB Act of 2001, this study estimated mathematics achievement gaps in different subgroups of kindergartners and first graders, and identified child- and school-level correlates and moderators of early mathematics achievement. A subset of 2300 students nested in 182 schools from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study K-First Grade…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Class Size, Poverty
Gathering Evidence on an After-School Supplemental Instruction Program: Design Challenges and Early Findings in Light of NCLB
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Chatterji, Madhabi; Kwon, Young Ae; Sng, Clarice – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires that public schools adopt research-supported programs and practices, with a strong recommendation for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as the "gold standard" for scientific rigor in empirical research. Within that policy framework, this paper compares the relative utility of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Academic Reading Attitudes and Performance as a Function of Gender
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Cook, Robert Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Childhood reading levels are important predictors of later childhood academic success. A child's reading ability and reading attitude is a strong indicator of future academic success and lifelong reading (Kush & Watkins, 1996; Wigfield & Guthrie, 1997). There is a strong correlation between a child's reading attitude and their actual…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Childrens Attitudes, Gender Differences, Reading Strategies