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Patel, Nirmal; Nagpal, Pooja; Shah, Tirth; Sharma, Aditya; Malvi, Shrey; Lomas, Derek – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Readability metrics provide us with an objective and efficient way to assess the quality of educational texts. We can use the readability measures for finding assessment items that are difficult to read for a given grade level. Hard-to-read math word problems can put some students at a disadvantage if they are behind in their literacy…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Readability, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Achievement
Zhang, Xiuyuan; Patel, Priyank; Ewing, Maureen – College Board, 2015
Historically, AP Potential™ correlations and expectancy tables have been based on 10th-and 11th-grade PSAT/NMSQT® examinees and 11th-and 12th-grade AP® examinees for all subjects (Zhang, Patel, & Ewing,2014; Ewing, Camara, & Millsap, 2006; Camara & Millsap, 1998). However, a large number of students take AP European History and AP…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Scores, Prediction, European History
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Stevens, Sharon; Patel, Nimisha – School Community Journal, 2015
Parent involvement in education is a multifaceted support that has many well-documented benefits for students of all ages. Parent involvement is also a common expression of generativity as defined in Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. The activities parents engage in during their children's educational pursuits, as well as their…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Social Capital, Student Development, Social Development
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Kruse, Jerrid; Henning, Joleen; Wilcox, Jesse; Carmen, Katherine; Patel, Neal; Seebach, Colin – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
A high self-efficacy in teaching is sometimes used as a kind of litmus test of science teaching practices. However, the connection between self-efficacy and teaching effectiveness is not well established. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the connections between self-efficacy and enacted science teaching of preservice elementary…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Tripet, Kristen; Barker, Valerie; Patel, Ruqiyah; Thornton, Steve – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2018
Algebraic reasoning is foundational to all mathematical thinking. This is no less the case in the early years of school, where the capacity to recognise the structure of mathematical processes enables students to acquire deep conceptual understanding. It is through algebra, therefore, that students are able to explore and express mathematical…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3
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Roy, Amy K.; Breaux, Rosanna; Sciberras, Emma; Patel, Pooja; Ferrara, Erica; Shroff, Delshad M.; Cash, Annah R.; Dvorsky, Melissa R.; Langberg, Joshua M.; Quach, Jon; Melvin, Glenn; Jackson, Anna; Becker, Stephen P. – School Psychology, 2022
Among the many impacts of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the most dramatic was the immediate closure of in-person schooling in March/April 2020 when parents were faced with much greater responsibility in supporting their children's learning. Despite this, few studies have examined parents' own perspectives of this experience.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Barriers