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50 Years of ERIC
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Carter, Chandra P.; Reschly, Amy L.; Lovelace, Matthew D.; Appleton, James J.; Thompson, Dianne – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
Early school withdrawal, commonly referred to as dropout, is associated with a plethora of negative outcomes for students, schools, and society. Student engagement, however, presents as a promising theoretical model and cornerstone of school completion interventions. The purpose of the present study was to validate the Student Engagement…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Academic Achievement
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Mercer, Sterett H.; Harpole, Lauren Lestremau; Mitchell, Rachel R.; McLemore, Chandler; Hardy, Christina – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of probe variability on the ability to replicate results in brief experimental analysis (BEA) of reading. In the first phase of the study, 41 first- and second- grade students completed 16 oral reading fluency probes. Calculations of probe difficulty were used to identify Low and High Variability…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Reynolds, Matthew R.; Sander, Janay B.; Irvin, Matthew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The trajectories of internalizing and interpersonal behaviors from kindergarten through fifth grade were studied using univariate and bivariate latent curve models. Internalizing behaviors demonstrated a small, yet statistically significant, linear increase over time, while interpersonal behaviors showed a small, yet statistically significant,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary School Students, Age Differences
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Hooper, Stephen R.; Roberts, Joanne E.; Nelson, Lauren; Zeisel, Susan; Kasambira Fannin, Danai – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
This study examined the preschool predictors of elementary school narrative writing skills. The sample included 65 typically developing African American children, ranging in age from 5.0 to 5.5 years, and was 44.6% male. Targeted preschool predictors included measures of phonological processing, core language abilities, prereading skills, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Children, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten
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Meisinger, Elizabeth B.; Bradley, Barbara A.; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kuhn, Melanie R.; Morris, Robin D. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The purpose of the study was to investigate (a) the prevalence of word callers in elementary school, (b) the accuracy of teachers' word caller nominations, and (c) teachers' conceptualization of reading fluency and reading comprehension. To this end, 2 cross-sectional studies of second- and third- (N = 868) and of third- and fifth-grade (N = 202)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Incidence
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Menesses, Keri F.; Gresham, Frank M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
This study directly compared the academic gains of reciprocal peer tutoring, nonreciprocal peer tutoring, and a waiting-list control group. Participants included 59 elementary students from second-, third-, and fourth-grade classrooms who performed below average on curriculum-based measurement (CBM) math probes. Students involved in peer tutoring…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, At Risk Students, Academic Failure, Tutoring
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Elias, Maurice J.; Haynes, Norris M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Despite living in disadvantaged urban communities experiencing social and economic hardships, many children emerge with positive outcomes. Social-emotional competence and social support were hypothesized to have strong influences on academic trajectories during the critical period of academic skill acquisition. Participants were 282 third-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Interpersonal Competence
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Begeny, John C.; Eckert, Tanya L.; Montarello, Staci A.; Storie, Michelle S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Teacher perceptions about students' academic abilities are important for several reasons (e.g., instructional decision making, special education entitlement decisions). Not surprisingly, researchers have investigated the accuracy of teachers' decisions. Although some data reveal that teachers are relatively good judges of academic performance,…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Student Attitudes, Reading Fluency, Program Effectiveness
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Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
Curriculum-based assessment assesses the match between curriculum and student skill by computing the percentage of known words in a reading task and comparing it to the instructional level criterion of 93% to 97% known. The current study examined the effect of preteaching unknown words to 29 third-grade children identified as learning disabled…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Special Needs Students