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Pearson, P. David – 1977
After a discussion of the confused terminology, overlapping categories, and ambiguity evident in categorization of comprehension questions in current reading series and in the literature on comprehension, a comprehensive classification scheme is proposed that seeks to avoid these problems. The proposed classification scheme has three orthogonal…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Classification, Content Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Breaux, Glenda; Pearson, P. David – 1998
The focus of this study is the effects of a School Improvement Plan (SIP) on an urban elementary school. The school's regular education teachers were required to participate in one of five committees designed to prepare the SIP, which specified goals for improvement and the strategies for reaching them. Classroom observations were used by the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Chiu, Christopher W. T.; Pearson, P. David – 1999
Test accommodations for special education (SP) and limited English proficient (LEP) students have attracted much attention recently because proper accommodations promote inclusion and allow students to perform optimally. A meta-analysis of 30 research studies found empirical evidence supporting the position that, with appropriate accommodations,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Disabilities
Hughes, Joan E.; Packard, Becky Wai-Ling; Pearson, P. David – 1997
A study examined how the "Reading Classroom Explorer" (RCE, a hypermedia learning environment) might enhance the learning of preservice teacher education students as they prepare to assume internships. RCE is a searchable database of digitized video clips from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series "Exemplary Ways To Teach Reading."…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Higher Education, Hypermedia, Methods Courses
Hughes, Joan E.; Packard, Becky Wai-Ling; Reischl, Catherine H.; Pearson, P. David – 1998
The Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment for teacher education, was developed in 1996. The environment contains searchable video clips of six exemplary teachers teaching reading, transcripts of classroom clips, questions to spur thinking, reference citations, and an interactive notebook. A study explored: what sorts…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Research, Hypermedia