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Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
The aims of the current project were to: (1) describe average change in the use of academic words across the school year in writing and (2) examine potential predictors of growth in academic word use in response to morphology-focused supplemental instruction. Investigators utilized written expository responses of 824 students in 5th grade before…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Academic Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Purpose: The primary aims of this study were to: (1) to describe average change in the writing quality of fifth grade students from the fall and spring of the school year; (2) examine relations between linguistic features and writing quality rating; and (3) test for differential growth between groups of students who differ in linguistic and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Student Diversity
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
The aims of the current project were to: (a) describe lexical diversity, morphologically complex word use (MCW), and writing quality ratings of 5th-grade students with diverse language backgrounds and (b) to examine the relationship between analytical components and writing quality ratings with performance on measures of language and literacy…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Writing Achievement, Language Skills, Grade 5
Wanzek, Jeanne; Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Remedial and Special Education, 2022
This study aimed to examine language at the teacher/classroom level among second-grade classrooms that differ in socioeconomic backgrounds. Measures of teachers' vocabulary input across the school day throughout the school year were examined. There was a significant difference in the proportion of academic word use between classes that differed in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Academic Language
Wood, Carla; Wanzek, Jeanne; Schatschneider, Christopher – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study aimed to examine verbal behaviors within communicative interactions at the teacher/classroom level among second-grade classrooms that differ in socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Investigators recorded and examined language use across instructional periods for 38 second-grade classrooms. Teachers' communication behaviors were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Classroom Communication, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Wood, Carla; Garcia-Salas, Miguel; Schatschneider, Christopher – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this study was to advance the analysis of written language transcripts by validating an automated scoring procedure using an automated open-access tool for calculating morphological complexity (MC) from written transcripts. Method: The MC of words in 146 written responses of students in fifth grade was assessed using two…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Computation
Garcia-Salas, Miguel; Wood, Carla; Wanzek, Jeanne; Schatschneider, Christopher – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to describe 2nd-grade teachers' use of different forms of praise during English Language Arts (ELA) instruction and examine if teacher characteristics were associated with differences in the use of different types of praise. Investigators recorded 2nd-grade teachers' language use during randomly selected, 15-min excerpts (n = 912)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Language Arts, Positive Reinforcement
Garcia-Salas, Miguel; Wood, Carla; Wanzek, Jeanne; Schatschneider, Christopher – Education and Treatment of Children, 2023
This study aimed to describe 2nd-grade teachers' use of different forms of praise during English Language Arts (ELA) instruction and examine if teacher characteristics were associated with differences in the use of different types of praise. Investigators recorded 2nd-grade teachers' language use during randomly selected, 15-min excerpts (n = 912)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 2, Language Arts, Positive Reinforcement
Wood, Carla L.; Schatschneider, Christopher; VelDink, Allyssa – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The aims of the current project were twofold: (a) to describe the use of academic words in written language samples by fifth-grade students and (b) to examine the predictive relation between academic word use in academic writing and reading comprehension. Method: Investigators utilized written expository responses of 1,128 students in…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Usage, English Language Learners, Grade 5
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher; Wanzek, Jeanne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The primary aims of this study were twofold: (a) to describe average change in the written narrative performance of second grade students from the fall and spring of the school year and (b) examine patterns of individual growth to test for Matthew effects. Participants included 299 children in second grade. Microstructural measures were derived…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Writing (Composition), Productivity, Elementary School Students
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher; Wanzek, Jeanne – Grantee Submission, 2020
The primary aims of this study were two-fold: (1) to describe average change in the written narrative performance of second grade students from the fall and spring of the school year; and (2) examine patterns of individual growth to test for Matthew effects. Participants included 299 children in second grade. Microstructural measures were derived…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Writing (Composition), Productivity, Elementary School Students
Wood, Carla L.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Hart, Sara – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study aimed to describe 1-year changes in students' vocabulary in written narratives. Secondary aims included examination of accuracy and the relationship between lexical diversity and achievement. Participants included 749 students in first through eighth grades. Within-subjects 1-year change in diversity, productivity, and accuracy was…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Written Language
Wood, Carla; Hoge, Rachel; Schatschneider, Christopher; Castilla-Earls, Anny – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the response patterns of 288 Spanish-English dual language learners on a standardized test of receptive Spanish vocabulary. Investigators analyzed responses to 54 items on the "Test de Vocabulario en Imagenes" (TVIP) [Dunn, L. M., D. E. Lugo, E. R. Padilla, and L. M. Dunn. 1986. "Test de Vocabulario en Imganes…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Phonology, Item Analysis, Spanish
Buck, Julie; Torgesen, Joseph; Schatschneider, Christopher – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2018
This study was conducted to determine how useful students' prior performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is in helping to identify students who are likely to struggle on the subsequent year's FCAT, if intervention is not provided. Specifically, the authors wanted to determine how students are likely to perform on the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
van Dijk, Wilhelmina; Schatschneider, Christopher; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Hart, Sara A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
Complex research questions often need large samples to obtain accurate estimates of parameters and adequate power. Combining extant data sets into a large, pooled data set is one way this can be accomplished without expending resources. Measurement invariance (MI) modeling is an established approach to ensure participant scores are on the same…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Data Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Measurement