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Direct linkChilds, Ruth A.; Umezawa, Linda – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
This study investigates what grade-3 teachers say they would do if faced with common test administration dilemmas--and why. Grade-3 teachers with experience administering Ontario's provincially mandated assessment were recruited through professional association newsletters and Toronto-area newspapers. They responded to an on-line questionnaire (n…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Testing, Supervision
Sokal, Laura; Thiem, Cassandra; Crampton, Amanda; Katz, Herb – Canadian Journal of Education, 2009
This study examined the effects of the gender of reading tutors on 173 third and fourth grade mainly inner-city boys identified as struggling readers. Reading achievement ("Alberta Diagnostic Reading Program") and reader self-perceptions ("Readers' Self-Perception Scale") were monitored over a 22-week reading intervention. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries
Bruce, Catherine D.; Ross, John A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This study examined the effects of peer coaching on mathematics teaching practices and teacher beliefs about their capacity to have an impact on student learning. Twelve teachers in grades 3 and 6 participated in a brief but intensive professional development program over six months. The program focused on effective mathematics teaching strategies…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Interaction, Educational Change, Grade 3
McTavish, Marianne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This qualitative case study illustrates and compares the metacognitive strategies that a grade-3 female student used while reading narrative and informational texts. Data were collected from interviews, observations, and videotaping of the participant's narrative and informational text oral reading sessions and examined using thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Metacognition, Case Studies
Demeris, Henk; Childs, Ruth A.; Jordan, Anne – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
This study investigates the relationship between the number of students with special needs (designated as exceptional or receiving special education services) in grade-3 classrooms in 1997-1998 and their achievement scores in reading, writing, and mathematics on Ontario's provincial assessment with their peers without special needs. When the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Socioeconomic Status, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Ross, John A.; Gray, Peter – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
Principals are held accountable for student achievement although most studies find that they have no direct effect on it. In this study we tested a model hypothesizing that principals contribute to student achievement indirectly through teacher commitment and beliefs about their collective capacity. Path analysis of data from 205 elementary…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Effectiveness, Path Analysis
