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Richard L. Sparks Marjorie Artzer Jon Patton Leonore Ganschow Karen Miller Dorothy J. Hordubay Geri Walsh 《Annals of dyslexia》1998,48(1):239-270
In this study, the benefits of multisensory structured language (MSL) instruction in Spanish were examined. Participants were
students in high-school-level Spanish attending girls’ preparatory schools. Of the 55 participants, 39 qualified as at-risk
for foreign language learning difficulties and 16 were deemed not-at-risk. The at-risk students were assigned to one of three
conditions: (1) MSL—multisensory Spanish instruction in self-contained classrooms (n=14); (2) SC—traditional Spanish instruction provided in self-contained classrooms (n=11); and (3) NSC—traditional Spanish instruction in regular (not self-contained) Spanish classes (n=14). Not-at-risk students (n=16) received traditional Spanish instruction in regular classes similar to the instruction provided to the NSC group.
All three at-risk groups made significant gains over time on some native language skills regardless of teaching method. The
MSL group also made significant gains on a foreign language aptitude measure. The MSL group and the not-at-risk group made
greater gains than the two other at-risk groups on foreign language aptitude and native language measures of reading comprehension,
word recognition, and pseudoword reading.
Although most at-risk learners achieved an “expected” level of foreign language proficiency after two years of instruction,
significant group differences were found. On measures of oral and written foreign language proficiency, the MSL and not-at-risk
groups scored significantly higher than the at-risk groups instructed using traditional methods. After two years of Spanish
instruction, no differences in foreign language proficiency were found between the MSL group and the not-at-risk group. 相似文献
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Lora Battle Bailey 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,34(2):155-167
The notion that parent involvement impacts student learning outcomes for children who are at risk for failing academically has been supported by prominent early childhood education experts. Recent attention has been given to specific ways parents can help increase student learning through their interactions with children as they complete home learning activities. It is important to note that the term parent is used interchangeably with the terms adult, guardian and family member. The term “at-risk reader” refers to readers who are at risk of failing school because of reading deficiencies. This report will examine whether parent training to increase parent–child interactions during the completion of second grade Interactive Homework Assignments (IHA) can facilitate increases in a student’s ability to draw inferences from reading selections, a skill closely aligned with proficiency in reading acquisition. The second grade level was chosen because these children were those whose teachers were concerned with preparing them to take the third grade SAT9. Third grade level was not selected because many of their professional development activities were prescribed due to their immediate concern with preparing students to take the SAT9. IHA, for the scope of this study, is homework designed to increase parent involvement and student achievement. The results indicate that specific parent training during a brief period of time, approximately four weeks, has the potential for improving academic performance for academically at-risk students. 相似文献
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the predictive value of a dynamic test of English and French lexical specificity on at-risk reading classification in 13 at-risk and 44 not at-risk emerging English (L1)–French (L2) bilingual Grade 1 children (M = 75.87 months, SD = 3.18) enrolled in an early French immersion program in Canada. Lexical specificity was assessed with a computerized word learning game in which children were taught new English (e.g., “foal” and “sole”) and French (e.g., bac “bin” and bague “ring”) word pairs contrasted by minimal phonological differences. The results indicated that the dynamic test of lexical specificity in English contributed significantly to the prediction of children’s French at-risk reading status at the end of Grade 1 after controlling for French phonological awareness and nonverbal reasoning skills. However, French lexical specificity did not predict children’s reading risk classification in French after controlling for French phonological awareness. Thus, it may be feasible to identify at-risk status in emerging bilinguals using dynamic measures in their stronger language. 相似文献
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Kelli R. Paquette Susan E. Fello Mary Renck Jalongo 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(1):65-73
Listening and reading comprehension can be assessed by analyzing children’s visual, verbal, and written representations of
their understandings. “Talking Drawings” (McConnell, S. (1993). Talking drawings: A strategy for assisting learners. Journal of Reading, 36(4), 260–269 is one strategy that enables children to combine their prior knowledge with the new information derived from
an expository text and “translate” those newly-acquired understandings into other symbol systems, including an oral discussion
with a partner, a more detailed drawing, and written labels for the drawing. The Talking Drawings strategy begins by inviting
children to create pre-learning drawings. These initial drawings are a way of taking inventory of a child’s current content
knowledge about a particular topic. After pre-learning drawings are created and shared, children listen to or read an expository
text (e.g., information book, passage from a textbook) on the same topic as their drawing. Pairs of students discuss the information
and either modify their pre-learning drawings to be more detailed or create completely new drawings that reflect the recently-acquired
information. Students are encouraged to label their drawings with words in a diagram or schematic fashion. By evaluating the
“before” and “after” artwork, educators can identify advances in students’ reading and listening comprehension of the terminology,
facts, and principles on a particular topic. 相似文献
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Preparing special educators who are knowledgeable about evidence-based interventions for teaching reading to students with
reading difficulties and who are capable of using curriculum-based assessments to monitor student progress and differentiate
interventions is vital to the success of current school reform efforts. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was
to examine the effect of tutoring and using assessment to monitor the progress of struggling readers on preservice teachers’
(PSTs’) knowledge and preparedness to teach reading. Also of interest was whether reading scores of tutored students improved.
PSTs (n = 18) in an undergraduate reading methods course tutored at-risk second graders using an evidence-based intervention and
monitored students’ progress weekly. PSTs made significant growth on a measure of teacher knowledge about the structure of
language and on a survey of their preparedness to teach reading. A qualitative analysis of PSTs’ weekly reflections and final
reports revealed that the majority used curriculum-based assessment data to describe students’ response to tutoring and were
beginning to use that data to make instructional decisions. On average, tutored students improved reading fluency, but did
not demonstrate significant growth in reading relative to national norms. Implications and limitations of the study are described
and directions for future research are discussed. 相似文献
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Erin T. Miller 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(4):243-249
In this article, I interrogate a previous and harmful “If Only” mindset I held as an early childhood literacy teacher. I describe
the “If Only” mentality as the idea that if only the parents and families of the students I taught changed, schools and teachers
could serve their children better. This deficit way of thinking led to a number of mistakes I made as a still-new, white,
middle-class, monolingual Reading Recovery teacher who was unprepared to value the home and community literacies of a population
of students and families from linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds other than my own. 相似文献
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Dr. Pauline Lipman 《The Urban Review》1996,28(1):41-62
This article addresses the role of exemplary teachers of students of color in educational reform. Using an ethnographic study
of two urban junior high schools in the beginning stages of restructuring, I describe threeculturally relevant teachers who create empowering educational experiences for low-achieving African American students. Despite their exemplary
practice and their enthusiasm for educational change, thewisdom of practice of these teachers was largely discounted in the restructuring process. They were marginalized by ideological and political
contexts which suppressed racial issues and advocacy for African American students and which supported a deficit model of
low-achieving African American students. Restructuring fostered little examination of policies, practices, and beliefs which
tended to marginalize African American students. This research suggests that professional dialogue and collaboration are mediated
by teachers' ideologies and by relations of power in schools and communities. If exemplary teachers of children of color are
to influence educational change, reformers need to legitimize their knowledge and sponsor their leadership. Also, reforms
that benefit marginalized children of color may require the mobilization and participation of parents and communities of color
as well as their teacher-advocates.
Even though I'm not doing the Mentoring and Counseling Program any more, I can't reject them. They know I care about them.
They know when you're not pretending. You don't turn off realness. Paulette
I find them where they are. I say, “You've told stories. When you say, ‘The way I see it,’ that's point of view.” I just do
it like that. When kids believe you think they can learn, they will. Samuel
We have to challenge these students. When we don't give them an opportunity, we're taking something away from them. Helen 相似文献
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Dr. Robert P. Engvall Ph.D. 《The Urban Review》1995,27(3):251-261
In these times of tight budgets and political intoleance for taxation, public schools, particularly urban public schools,
will continually have to look for ways in which to spend less while dealing with ever-increasing societal problems. While
the ability of schools to improve the overal “product” with less resources is highly suspect, this article addresses one way
in which spending less might actually improve school perfomance.
The best planners in the best schools should be the administration, techers, students, parents, and the comminitu at large,
and not outside esxperts hired to improve a school's “comprehensive” or “strategic” plan. By forcing the segments of the public
that have the largest stake in the educational outcomes of schools to work together to plan for the future, schools will improve
the efficacy of their staffs, their students, and allow parents the self-satisfaction of playing an important role in their
children's education. An improtant side effect of such a method may be an increasing awareness by the public of the difficulties
that schools face, and perhaps a better understanding of the important need for higher expenditures.
His research interests include professionalism, collective bargaining, and educational reform. His articles have appeared
inPeople and Education, and a recent article has been aceepted for publication in theJournal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector. 相似文献
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Phil Cormack 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(2):133-148
This paper examines the report of the Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (Department of Education, Science & Training (DEST) 2005) and explores the claims it makes about reading pedagogy and the centrality of particular “methods” or “approaches” to teaching
backed by “scientific” evidence. Discourse analysis of the report shows that its logics allow only certain kinds of evidence
to count in policy, and that it reduces difficult social and political issues to questions of technique. This allows the report
to recommend an approach whereby qualitative insights and practitioners’ experience can be bypassed through valorising methods
developed and verified by scientific researchers. The report’s claims are considered genealogically in the light of historical
cases from the early nineteenth century, where educational reformers struggled with the issue of how to educate the children
of the poor. In one, the monitorial system promoted by Lancaster in England, there was a focus on reading which made teachers
or monitors artefacts of a standardised method. By way of contrast, in Scotland, a classroom approach developed by Stow (1854) made the teacher central to the process, as someone who sensitively interpreted and extended students’ experiences with
texts. Stow’s approach would form the model for the modern classroom in compulsory state schooling, while the monitorial system
would eventually be abandoned as ineffective. The historical cases demonstrate the dangers of approaches to policy that fail
to account for the complex interplay between teacher, student and text in the reading lesson. 相似文献
10.
Dr. James E. Bruno 《The Urban Review》1995,27(2):101-120
“Doing time” is an expression that is generally associated with prisoners who are disconnected from society and find themselves
counting the days and minutes until their release from prison. In many respects, at-risk students attending our nation's large,
urban, inner-city middle and high schools also consider themselves as not being connected to school or society and to be “doing
time” in the classroom. Qualitative and subjective impressions of doing time at school have become the theme of many movies,
books, and research articles. This study extends this qualitative type of research by quantitatively framing time allocation
preferences and temporal dominance characteristics for a large sample of teacher-perceived “at-risk” students at several large
urban high school sites. A sample of normal attaining students at the same school site served as a comparison group. The findings
of this research effort generally support other more qualitative studies and indicate that there are strong preferences in
at-risk students toward nondirected time-consuming activities (i.e., hanging out, video games, watching TV, etc.) with low-directed
to nondirected time preference ratios. Normal attaining students had the reverse pattern, i.e., higher-directed to nondirected
time preference ratios and higher preferences toward directed time-consuming activities that might be associated with investments
in the schooling process (homework, studying, personal development, etc.). Interpretation of the circles test, a projective
psychological procedure for establishing temporal dominance for at-risk students, revealed a general lack of recognition and
connectiveness between past, present, and future events in their life and weak temporal dominance or orientation toward the
future. 相似文献
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Charles R. Morrison Joel R. Levin 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1987,35(2):67-74
Eighth-grade students silently read passages that described dichotomized attributes of nine North American minerals. One-fourth
of the students were given instruction in the use of mnemonic techniques, and were provided with “keywords” and mnemonic illustrations
of the passage content; one-fourth were provided with keywords and given instructions for creating internal mnemonic images
of the passage content; one-fourth were given instructions for creating their own keywords and internal mnemonic images; and
the remaining fourth were given motivational instructions and told to use their “own best method” of studying while reading
the passages. Mnemonic instruction, when accompanied by experimenter-provided keywords and mnemonic illustrations, produced
superior recall of the mineral attributes in comparison to the other three conditions on both immediate and eight-day delayed
performance tests. Implications of the findings are discussed with regard to the amount of external support necessary for
effective use of mnemonic techniques by students reading expository prose passages. 相似文献
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A large urban school district contracted with a private nonprofit educational foundation to train 126 special education resource
teachers in the last three years in an Orton-Gillingham-based program. These teachers are currently teaching learning-disabled
students in groups of 8–10 at the elementary level and 10–13 students at the secondary level. Learning-disabled students who
qualify for Special Education, either in reading or spelling, or both, are receiving the instruction.
The teachers took a Basic Introductory Class (90 hours of Advanced Academic Credit offered by the Texas Education Agency,
or six hours of graduate credit at a local university) in order to teach the program in the resource setting. A two year Advanced
Training included annual on-site observations, two half-day workshops each fall and spring, and a two-day advanced workshop
in the second summer.
First grade teachers, one selected from each of the 164 campuses, supervisors, and principals attended a 25-hour course on
“Recognizing Dyslexia: Using Multisensory Teaching and Discovery Techniques.” The first grade teachers and special education
resource teachers collaborated to provide inservice training for their colleagues.
Research, conducted by the district’s Research Department, reveals statistically significant gains in reading and spelling
ability for the learning-disabled resource students as measured by the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised, and the Test
of Written Spelling. 相似文献
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Elaine Reese Sebastian Suggate Jennifer Long Elizabeth Schaughency 《Reading and writing》2010,23(6):627-644
This research investigated the link between oral narrative and reading skills in the first 3 years of reading instruction.
Study 1 consisted of 61 children (M = 6:1 years) who had experienced 1 year of reading instruction on average. Children’s story retelling was scored for memory
and narrative quality. The quality of children’s narratives correlated positively with their reading skill at this age, but
narrative quality did not uniquely predict their reading skill 1 year later. Study 2 consisted of 39 children (M = 7:0 years) who had experienced 2 years of reading instruction on average. At this age, the quality of children’s narratives
uniquely predicted their reading skill concurrently and 1 year later, even after controlling for their receptive vocabulary
and early decoding. These findings have implications for theories of the oral language foundations of reading and for assessment
in the early years of reading instruction. 相似文献
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In higher education, many high-enrollment introductory courses have evolved into “gatekeeper” courses due to their high failure
rates. These courses prevent many students from attaining their educational goals and often become graduation roadblocks.
At the authors’ home institution, general chemistry has become a gatekeeper course in which approximately 25% of students
do not pass. This failure rate in chemistry is common, and often higher, at many other institutions of higher education, and
mathematical deficiencies are perceived to be a large contributing factor. This paper details the development of a highly
accurate predictive system that identifies students at the beginning of the semester who are “at-risk” for earning a grade
of C- or below in chemistry. The predictive accuracy of this system is maximized by using a genetically optimized neural network
to analyze the results of a diagnostic algebra test designed for a specific population. Once at-risk students have been identified,
they can be helped to improve their chances of success using techniques such as concurrent support courses, online tutorials,
“just-in-time” instructional aides, study skills, motivational interviewing, and/or peer mentoring. 相似文献
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This research, as part of a larger project examining effective reading instruction for 10–12 year old students, explores the perceptions of thirteen parents in six schools. The study identified: parents recognise their engagement in reading with their children impacts on children's motivation to read; parents have concerns about the degree to which schools meet children's reading needs; and some parents seek external assessment and support. The study as a whole indicates the importance of effective home school relationships. 相似文献
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Teachers’ acquisition of knowledge about English word structure 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Previous research suggests that teachers’ knowledge about English word structure (e.g., the phonological structure of words
and common orthographic patterns in English) may be limited, although this knowledge is important for effective teaching of
word decoding. This study examined teacher education students’ knowledge about word structure, and improvements in their knowledge
as a result of instruction, using three tasks: graphophonemic segmentation, classification of pseudowords by syllable type,
and classification of real words as phonetically regular or irregular. Participants came from a special education certification
program and included both preservice and inservice teachers. Results indicated that prior preparation to teach reading influenced
participants’ initial performance on two of the three word-structure tasks (all but graphophonemic segmentation); however,
prior experience in teaching reading did not influence word-structure knowledge. A subset of participants who received specific
instruction about word structure improved their knowledge relative to a comparison group of teacher education students who
did not receive word-structure instruction. Prior preparation did not influence participants’ responsiveness to instruction.
Conclusions support the viewpoint that teacher education must include information about English word structure for educators
who will teach reading and suggest that sufficiently intensive instruction may be important in developing word-structure knowledge. 相似文献
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Alejandro J. Gallard Mart��nez 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(3):719-723
This forum considers argumentation as a means of science teaching in South African schools, through the integration of indigenous
knowledge (IK). It addresses issues raised in Mariana G. Hewson and Meshach B. Ogunniyi’s paper entitled: Argumentation-teaching
as a method to introduce indigenous knowledge into science classrooms: opportunities and challenges. As well as Peter Easton’s:
Hawks and baby chickens: cultivating the sources of indigenous science education; and, Femi S. Otulaja, Ann Cameron and Audrey
Msimanga’s: Rethinking argumentation-teaching strategies and indigenous knowledge in South African science classrooms. The
first topic addressed is that implementation of argumentation in the science classroom becomes a complex endeavor when the
tensions between students’ IK, the educational infrastructure (allowance for teacher professional development, etc.) and local
belief systems are made explicit. Secondly, western styles of debate become mitigating factors because they do not always
adequately translate to South African culture. For example, in many instances it is more culturally acceptable in South Africa
to build consensus than to be confrontational. Thirdly, the tension between what is “authentic science” and what is not becomes
an influencing factor when a tension is created between IK and western science. Finally, I argue that the thrust of argumentation
is to set students up as “scientist-students” who will be considered through a deficit model by judging their habitus and
cultural capital. Explicitly, a “scientist-student” is a student who has “learned,” modeled and thoroughly assimilated the
habits of western scientists, evidently—and who will be judged by and held accountable for their demonstration of explicit
related behaviors in the science classroom. I propose that science teaching, to include argumentation, should consist of “listening
carefully” (radical listening) to students and valuing their language, culture, and learning as a model for
“science for all”. 相似文献
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Dorothy Valcarcel Craig 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2000,27(3):179-184
As today’s preschoolers become the school-age children of tomorrow, early learning educators are faced with a unique and exciting
challenge of integrating technology into mathematics instruction. This article examines theory, standards, guidelines, and
rationale that supports technology in the preschool environment. Examining practices at 12 diverse preschool sites, four designs
emerge as the “typical” models that enable early learners to engage and experience technology within a developmentally appropriate
learning environment. The designs outlined are viewed through the lens of preschool mathematics instruction and provide early
learning educators as well as parents with models for replication. 相似文献
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In an era of rapid global economic and social change, educational institutions like schools and universities are struggling
to keep their curricula and programs relevant. Singapore’s schools are no exception, especially when education is viewed as
the essential element for maintaining the nation’s global competitiveness in ways that are totally disproportionate to its
size. The current shift from an ‘efficiency-’ to an ‘ability-’ driven paradigm in education, however, is increasing uncertainty
and raising the stakes in an already pressurized system where schools, educators and students constantly compete for top academic
awards and rewards. The concept of “partnership” in Singapore education is a significant, relatively new, trend that has caught
on among local schools only since the late-1990s, with the focus on creating better “total” learning environments for students.
This paper analyses the challenges of matching rhetoric with professional practice with regard to school–home partnerships
in Singapore, and concludes that the key to authentic collaboration lies in the mutual appreciation and valuing of diversity
as well as a deep sense of shared responsibility by all parties concerned. 相似文献
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Stanislaw Schukajlow Dominik Leiss Reinhard Pekrun Werner Blum Marcel Müller Rudolf Messner 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):215-237
In this study which was part of the DISUM-project, 224 ninth graders from 14 German classes from middle track schools (Realschule)
were asked about their enjoyment, interest, value and self-efficacy expectations concerning three types of mathematical problems:
intra-mathematical problems, word problems and modelling problems. Enjoyment, interest, value and self-efficacy were assessed
before and after a ten-lesson teaching unit promoting modelling competency related to the topics “Pythagoras’ theorem” and
“linear functions”. The study aimed to answer the following research questions: (1) Do students’ enjoyment, value, interest
and self-efficacy expectations differ depending on the type of task? (2) Does the treatment of modelling problems in classroom
instruction influence these variables? (3) Are there any differential effects for different ways of teaching modelling problems,
including a “directive”, teacher-centred instruction and an “operative-strategic”, more student-centred instruction emphasising
group work and strategic scaffolding by the teacher? The findings show that there were no differences in students’ enjoyment,
interest, value and self-efficacy between the three types of tasks. However, teaching oriented towards modelling problems
had positive effects on some of the student variables, with the student-centred teaching method producing the most beneficial
effects. 相似文献