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McCaslin, Mary; Vriesema, Christine C.; Burggraf, Susan – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: We studied how students in Grades 4-6 participate in and emotionally adapt to the give-and-take of learning in classrooms, particularly when making mistakes. Our approach is consistent with researchers who (a) include cognitive appraisals in the study of emotional experiences, (b) consider how personal concerns might mediate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
McCaslin, Mary; Burross, Heidi Legg – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: Research is presented on teacher-centered instruction and individual differences among students within a sociocultural perspective specifically, within a co-regulation model. Purpose of Study: To determine the utility of a co-regulation model for understanding teacher and student adaptation to the press of cultural and social…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Good, Thomas L.; McCaslin, Mary – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: The U.S. federal government has been interested in improving the performance of students who come from low-income homes since the time of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives in the 1960s. The current administration strongly supports the belief that good schools can be created and has funded the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, School Restructuring, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
McCaslin, Mary – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Student motivation typically has been studied as it relates to extrinsic (e.g., reinforcement) and intrinsic (e.g., choice) sources of influence. Our observation of Grades 3-5 classrooms engaged in Comprehensive School Reform (CSR), however, unexpectedly indicated that opportunities for both rewards and choice were scarce. This…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Student Attitudes, Participant Observation, Learning Motivation
Dolan, Alyson Lavigne; McCaslin, Mary – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Working theories about student goal orientation, understanding of intelligence, and affective mediation of task engagement inform current beliefs about students and learning and motivation. Much research has focused on identifying effective teaching strategies to raise the achievement of disadvantaged students; however, less is…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
McCaslin, Mary; Burross, Heidi Legg; Good, Thomas L. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
In this article we examine student performance on mandated tests in grades 3, 4, and 5 in one state. We focus on this interval, which w e term "the fourth grade window," based on our hypothesis that students in grade four are particularly vulnerable to decrements in achievement. The national focus on the third grade as the critical…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Intervals, Poverty, Academic Achievement
McCaslin, Mary; Good, Thomas L.; Nichols, Sharon; Zhang, Jizhi; Wiley, Caroline R. H.; Bozack, Amanda Rabidue; Burross, Heidi Legg; Cuizon-Garcia, Rena – Elementary School Journal, 2006
This observational study involved literacy and mathematics instruction of 145 teachers in grades 3 through 5 in 20 low-income schools enrolled in the U.S. government's Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Demonstration program. Observed curriculum and instructional practices were primarily and coherently focused on acquisition of basic facts and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Demonstration Programs, School Restructuring