Download or read book Teachers Attitudes and Perceptions of Looping and the Effect of Looping on Students Academic Achievement written by Vera Williams-Wright and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of student scores on the 2010 and 2011 Mississippi Curriculum Test, Second Edition (MCT2), from six Mississippi elementary schools in grades three through five, were analyzed to determine the impact of looping on academic achievement in mathematics and language arts. The teachers were surveyed to determine their perceptions of looping in regard to instructional effectiveness, relationships, and parental involvement.
Download or read book Looping Versus Nonlooping Second Grade Classrooms written by Jane Suzanne Niebrugge Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purpose . School reform has led educators to consider nontraditional ways of looking at teaching and learning to determine what is most beneficial for students. Looping is a two year placement of students with the same teacher. Offering students and families the stability of a long term relationship with a teacher builds trust and community. This study compared second grade students in looping and nonlooping classrooms. Students, teachers, and parents provided data in the areas of (a) academic achievement, (b) student perceptions of feelings about the classroom and academic motivation, and (c) the influence of student/teacher/parent relationships. Research questions . (1) Does classroom teacher continuity impact student academic achievement? Do students who have experienced looping have higher achievement levels than students who have not looped? (2) Does classroom teacher continuity affect student perceptions of feelings about the classroom and academic motivation? (3) What do looping teachers see as the advantages and disadvantages of looping as determined by a teacher survey? How does looping affect student academic progress and social relationships with students, parents, and other educators? (4) What do parents see as the advantages and disadvantages of looping as determined through parent surveys and a parent small group meeting? Procedures . A quantitative analysis using ANOVA assessed academic achievement, student perceptions of feelings about the classroom, and academic motivation. A qualitative analysis was used to analyze survey responses from teachers and parents concerning looping. Results . The only statistically significant difference found between looped and nonlooped students was in the area of language arts achievement. Parents were very supportive and felt looping promoted the cognitive, affective, and social growth and development of their children. Parents felt their children experienced less stress, felt more comfortable with the teacher, and had a positive attitude toward school due to caring relationships. Teachers saw many social benefits involving student and parent relationships. Teachers felt a looping classroom required more organization, planning, and professional development to implement the program.
Download or read book Reading and Mathematics Achievement written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Focus on the Wonder Years written by Jaana Juvonen and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young teens undergo multiple changes that seem to set them apart from other students. But do middle schools actually meet their special needs? The authors describe some of the challenges and offer ways to tackle them, such as reassessing the organization of grades K-12; specifically assisting the students most in need; finding ways to prevent disciplinary problems; and helping parents understand how they can help their children learn at home.
Download or read book Teacher Perceptions of Looping in Relation to Their Professional Growth and Development written by Staci Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand better the lived experiences of seven elementary looping teachers. Specifically, their perceptions of whether or not the participation of looping facilitated their professional growth as it relates to the four primary areas of T-TESS. Previous studies in the realm of looping have a focus on student experiences and achievement. Although looping is research-based and shown to enhance student achievement, no known researcher had examined how looping teachers perceive the experience in terms of their professional being. This study was an opportunity to fill the gap in literature based on experiential learning opportunities for educators. The conceptual framework of the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (henceforth, T-TESS) guided the analysis for this study as the Texas Education Agency has identified the areas of teaching excellence within the T-TESS expectations. This study uses the constructivist theory as the lens to consider teachers' development through active and hands-on learning. By using these frameworks, themes from the participants' interviews revealed that the looping experience was influential to the participants' development of skills aligned with teaching excellence in the areas of planning, instruction, learning environment, and professional practices. The participants in this study constructed a firsthand understanding of teaching excellence in various areas in the form of the job-embedded experience of looping. In the area of planning, the participants collectively recalled in saturation how looping influenced their planning in the areas of vertical alignment mastery and decision making based on an improved knowledge of students. The experience of looping impacted the participants' understanding and ability to achieve expectations, build a more solid foundation of content knowledge, and monitor/adjust instruction.
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book The Impact of Looping Practices on Student Achievement at a Minnesota Inner City Elementary School written by Carole Margaret Caauwe and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study whose purpose was to determine if the practice of classroom looping (where a teacher moves with a class from one grade to the next, while the teacher previously teaching the higher class cycles to pick up a new class) affected the academic achievement scores at a Minnesota inner-city elementary school. Reading and math academic achievement score comparisons were used, based on the Stanford Achievement Test Series 10 (SAT10). The target population consisted of 38 students from looping classrooms at School A, and 33 students from non-looping classrooms at School B. Looping students had been with the same teacher for two consecutive years. Non-looping students, in traditional one-year classrooms, had attended School B for two years. Fifth-grade examination scores from the spring of 2005 were compared with gains made on the sixth-grade examination scores from the spring of 2006. Academic progress in reading and math was measured for these students through causal-comparative regression analysis. The results of this study indicated no statistically significant academic difference in reading levels between looping and non-looping students. Because of the small sample size, a Type II error may be a possibility; a longer and larger study would need to determine the accuracy of these results. The study's results did, however, indicate a statistically significant academic difference in math gain scores between looping and non-looping students.
Download or read book The Effects of Looping on the Academic Achievement of Elementary School Students written by Vada S. Bogart and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of students in looping programs from school systems in East Tennessee to their peers in traditional one-year instructional programs. Looping is defined as any program design that perpetuates a cohesive student group with the same teacher for more than one year. The study included all students who had completed fourth grade in 2001 at every school in East Tennessee that implemented a third/fourth grade looping design. Student scores reported for 1999, 2000, and 2001 on the TerraNova Standardized Achievement Test were obtained from individual student records. Comparisons were made on the Total Reading, Total Language, Total Math, and Total Battery scores. Differences between program design groups (looping and traditional) on "pre-looping" second grade (1999) scores were assessed using t-tests for two independent groups. Two-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), was used to examine the main effects of program design and student gender on 2000 and 2001 test scores, along with program design x gender interactions, while controlling for prior test score differences. The findings suggested that students in looping classrooms benefited academically by remaining with the same teacher and classmates for two successive years. Significant main effects were detected for program design in first year comparisons, as indicated by significantly higher scores on all four subtests. Scores for those in the looping classrooms remained significantly higher in second year comparisons on each subtest, except Total Language, even after controlling for third grade (2000) test scores. Significant main effects for gender were detected after the first year of participation in each design. This included significantly higher Total Language and Total Battery scores for female participants. No significant differences by gender were detected when scores were compared on the four subtests at the end of the two-year cycle. A program design x gender interaction was detected at the end of the first year. This interaction showed that female participants in looping classrooms showed higher Total Math achievement. A program design x gender interaction also occurred after the second year where male participants in the looping classrooms obtained higher Total Language scores.
Download or read book Teacher Parent and Student Perceptions of the General Academic Social and Programmatic Impact of Looping written by Kay Serafin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What are Teachers Perceptions of Looping written by Molly Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Increasing Academic Achievment Through Looping written by Doris Lavona Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looping is the practice of a teacher staying with the same group of students for two or more years. This thesis examines the effect looping has on the academic achievement of students who participate in a three-year, grade four though six loop. An overview provides both historical and international backgrounds. This is followed by a summary of the literature focusing on the impacts looping has on parents, teachers, and students. Research was conducted at one elementary school with one class that had looped and one class that had not. The looping class included 27 out of a class of 34 students who had looped. The non-looping class consisted in 30 out of 33 students who had been together as students, but had had a different teacher each year. Research method consisted in the collection of standardized test data for both classes. A t-test for independent mean was applied to both math and English language arts data for both groups whole classes as well as disaggregated by gender and second-language learner status. The results of data analysis showed a recurrent theme of increased academic achievement in both math and English language arts for the looping group.
Download or read book Get Into the Loop written by Robin Lee Shultis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Experience and Effects of Looping in the Elementary Classroom written by Michelle L. Pecanic and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IJER Vol 7 N4 written by International Journal of Educational Reform and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the International Journal of Educational Reform (IJER) is to keep readers up-to-date with worldwide developments in education reform by providing scholarly information and practical analysis from recognized international authorities. As the only peer-reviewed scholarly publication that combines authors’ voices without regard for the political affiliations perspectives, or research methodologies, IJER provides readers with a balanced view of all sides of the political and educational mainstream. To this end, IJER includes, but is not limited to, inquiry based and opinion pieces on developments in such areas as policy, administration, curriculum, instruction, law, and research. IJER should thus be of interest to professional educators with decision-making roles and policymakers at all levels turn since it provides a broad-based conversation between and among policymakers, practitioners, and academicians about reform goals, objectives, and methods for success throughout the world. Readers can call on IJER to learn from an international group of reform implementers by discovering what they can do that has actually worked. IJER can also help readers to understand the pitfalls of current reforms in order to avoid making similar mistakes. Finally, it is the mission of IJER to help readers to learn about key issues in school reform from movers and shakers who help to study and shape the power base directing educational reform in the U.S. and the world.
Download or read book The Effects of Looping on Students who Demonstrate At risk Characteristics written by Nohelani Marie Estella Guadiz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visible Learning written by John Hattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Areas covered include the influence of the student, home, school, curricula, teacher, and teaching strategies. A model of teaching and learning is developed based on the notion of visible teaching and visible learning. A major message is that what works best for students is similar to what works best for teachers – an attention to setting challenging learning intentions, being clear about what success means, and an attention to learning strategies for developing conceptual understanding about what teachers and students know and understand. Although the current evidence based fad has turned into a debate about test scores, this book is about using evidence to build and defend a model of teaching and learning. A major contribution is a fascinating benchmark/dashboard for comparing many innovations in teaching and schools.
Download or read book Looping Teachers Perceptions of Students Ability Levels in the Looped Classroom Specifically in the Areas of Mathematics and Reading written by Kaili Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
