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Reading fluency measurements in EFA FTI partner countries : outcomes and improvement prospects
(World Bank, 2011)Students in lower-income countries often acquire limited literacy in school and often drop out illiterate. For those who stay, the problem is not detected until it is too late to intervene. Oral reading fluency tests given ... -
Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages
(Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010-11-05)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sign languages recruit physical properties of visual motion to convey linguistic information. The present experiment investigated the effect of sign position and ... -
The return of the native? :questions about geographical knowledge and spatial thinking
(Grosvenor Center for Geographic EducationUniversity of North Texas, 2007) -
SIG en la nube: WebSIG para la enseñanza de la geografía
(Grupo de Didáctica de la Geografía de la Asociación de Geógrafos EspañolesDepartment of Instruction and Curriculum, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2011)There is no doubt among most geography educators that GIS is an important tool for teaching and learning, but its use has been slowed by issues such as the cost of the software and the management of large spatial data ... -
Simulating Burr Type VII Distributions through the Method of 𝐿-moments and 𝐿-correlations
(Scienpress Ltd.Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)Burr Type VII, a one-parameter non-normal distribution, is among the less studied distributions, especially, in the contexts of statistical modeling and simulation studies. The main purpose of this study is to introduce ... -
Simulating non-normal distributions with specified L-moments and L-correlations
(Blackwell Publishing,Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This paper derives a procedure for simulating continuous non-normal distributions with specified L-moments and L-correlations in the context of power method polynomials of order three. It is demonstrated that the proposed ... -
Simulating Uniform- and Triangular- Based Double Power Method Distributions
(Scienpress LtdDepartment of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2017)Power method (PM) polynomials have been used for simulating non-normal distributions in a variety of settings such as toxicology research, price risk, business-cycle features, microarray analysis, computer adaptive ... -
Strategies and policies for literacy
(UNESCO, 2004-05-31)Executive Summary Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1–5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to ... -
The supporting effects of high luminous conditions on grade 3 oral reading fluency scores
(SpringerPlusDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)The universality of the impact of daylight is a common thread that defines humanity. Day light affects us in a variety of ways –visually, psychologically and biologically. Artificial lighting research has explored ways ... -
Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness ... -
A Texas city magnet program: 1981-82 evaluation materials and results
(Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. Department of Research and Evaluation, 1984)In order to promote voluntary integration in two high schools and a middle school, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas developed a magnet program that offers specialized curricula: engineering at the all ... -
Theme-based portfolio assessment in social studies teacher education
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Towards Understanding When Service-Learning Fosters Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Teachers
(Duke University and the SIG-Service-Learning & Experiential Education of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)This research uses a mixed methods approach in focusing upon the role service-learning can play in enhancing preservice teachers’ sense of efficacy. Results of the quantitative component reveal significant gains in efficacy ... -
The Trouble With Interpreting Statistically Nonsignificant Effect Sizes in Single-Study Investigations
(DigitalCommons@WayneStateWayne State University PressDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 5-1-2003)In this commentary, we offer a perspective on the problem of authors reporting and interpreting effect sizes in the absence of formal statistical tests of their chanceness. The perspective reinforces our previous ... -
Twenty-Six Years of Changes in Education Students’ Attitudes
(Center for Promoting Ideas, USADepartment of Curriculum & Instruction, the University of Texas at Arlington, 2015-12)The main purpose of this quantitative study was to compare graduate education students from 1988 with graduate and undergraduate education students from 2014 in regard to their attitudes and expectations about teaching, schools, ... -
Urban-schooled Latina/os, Academic Literacies and Identities: (Re)Conceptualizing College Readiness
(The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education's Online Urban Education Journal, 2012)This qualitative case study focuses on the early college experiences of five Latina/o urban-schooled students who graduated in the top 10% of their high school class, guaranteeing them admission into a prestigious four ... -
Using a Generalized Linear Mixed Model Approach to Explore the Role of Age, Motor Proficiency, and Cognitive Styles in Children's Reach Estimation Accuracy
(Sage PublishingDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)The purpose was to use a multi-level statistical technique to analyze how children's age, motor proficiency, and cognitive styles interact to affect accuracy on reach estimation tasks via Motor Imagery and Visual Imagery. ... -
Visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition: Instructional implication for beginning readers in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving ... -
Visualizing economic development with ArcGIS Explorer
(National Council for the Social StudiesDept. of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington, 2011) -
"We Gotta Change First" : Racial Literacy in a High School English Classroom
(2014-Sprin)Students need more opportunities to learn how to respond to and counter forms of everyday racism. This qualitative study addresses that need by investigating how one peer-led group engaged in dialogue about issues of race ...