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Kos, Raylene – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
Perceptions of four reading-disabled middle school students were examined to reveal factors that may have prevented progress in reading. The following were identified as contributors: (1) ineffective use of reading strategies; (2) student perceptions of their reading instruction; (3) reading-related stress; and (4) students' educational histories.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Etiology, Interviews, Junior High School Students
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Chipman, Susan F.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
The effects of problem content on mathematics word problem performance were explored for 128 male and 128 female college students solving problems with masculine, feminine, and neutral (familiar and unfamiliar) cover stories. No effect of sex typing was found, and a small, but highly significant, effect was found for familiarity. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Testing, Familiarity, Females
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Strike, Kenneth A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Two normative interpretations, professionalism and democracy, are advanced for research that argues for such school reform as decentralized management, a team approach to school operation, and more autonomy for teachers. It is argued that a democratic conception is distinguishable from, and preferable to, a conception of teachers as professionals.…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Democracy, Discourse Communities, Educational Research
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Kuh, George D. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
The impact of out-of-class experiences on outcomes of college attendance considered important by students were studied through interviews with 149 seniors at 12 colleges and universities. Fourteen categories of learning and personal development were identified. Results demonstrate the importance of experiences beyond the classroom. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Outcomes Assessment, College Seniors, Educational Experience
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Seixas, Peter – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Using the discipline of history as a case study, the scholarly community of inquiry is compared with the community of inquiry in the classroom. The teacher's role in negotiating knowledge of each is discussed. The more teachers are integrated into the scholarly community, the better they will interpret it. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, History
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Mason, DeWayne A.; Good, Thomas L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
A whole-class model providing for student diversity through remediation and enrichment in small groups was compared with a two-group model accommodating diversity through fixed within-class ability groups. Higher mathematics achievement was found for the whole-class model in a study of 1,736 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Gains, Class Organization, Elementary School Students
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Chinn, Clark A.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Results of a microanalysis of 3,003 oral reading errors by 116 second and third graders support the idea that the actions of students and teachers during error episodes are situated in social contexts, emerging in response to a dynamic interplay of factors that converge at particular moments. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Context Effect, Elementary School Students, Error Analysis (Language)
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Hiebert, James; Wearne, Diana – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Classrooms that used different instructional approaches to mathematics were observed, contrasting instruction that aimed to promote conceptual understanding rather than algorithmic skill with more conventional instruction. Results with 6 second-grade classrooms (135 students) suggest that relationships between teaching and learning are a function…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
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Kagan, Dona M.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Effects of a staff development program on the professional lives of four elementary school teachers were studied. The Teacher in Residence partnership of the University of Alabama brings experienced teachers to the college for terms as adjunct faculty, allowing them to clarify what they have known and recommit to teaching. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Monk, David H.; Haller, Emil J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Relationships between high school structural characteristics and curricular offerings are examined using data from the High School and Beyond Survey, with an emphasis on school size. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that effects of size are differentiated within high schools. Implications for equality of education are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Courses, Equal Education, High School Students
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Noblit, George W. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
How power, in the caring perspective, can be seen as moral authority is explored in an ethnographic study of the traditional teacher-centered classroom of a second-grade teacher. Routine and ritual established continuity for curriculum and instruction. The purposes of collective responsibility and work were continuous. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Education
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Johnston, Bill J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
A general overview is provided of the structural transformation of work from a goods-based to a services-based economy, and suggestions are offered for reconsidering educational reform policy in light of the demand for schooling the new structure creates. The central problem of educational reform has become facilitating critical thinking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Economic Impact, Economics, Educational Change
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Hafner, Anne L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
The influence of mathematics-specific teaching practices on class-level mathematics achievement was studied using Second International Mathematics Study data for 236 eighth-grade classes (approximately 7,000 students). Links between class characteristics and teaching practices are explored. High socioeconomic status and high-ability students…
Descriptors: Ability, Classes (Groups of Students), Educational Practices, Grade 8
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Neuman, Susan B.; Roskos, Kathy – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Effects of adult mediation and literacy-enriched play settings in Head Start classrooms on environmental and functional print tasks were studied for 177 minority preschoolers in poverty. Results indicate that the active engagement of adult mediators in literacy-enriched office play settings influenced children's ability to read environmental…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
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Madden, Nancy A.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1993
Effects of variations in a schoolwide restructuring program, Success for All, in Baltimore (Maryland) on student reading achievement and other outcomes in elementary schools with large numbers of disadvantaged children are presented. Strong positive effects of the intervention are recognized, and program replication is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students