Sentences with phrase «middle grades education research»

The primary purpose of the MLER SIG Research Agenda was to develop a set of questions that provide direction to the field of middle grades education research.

The MLER SIG Research Agenda provides direction to the field of middle grades education research.

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Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Capotosto, currently an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, researches parental support for middle grade comprehension development.

The Education Next research article «Stuck in the Middle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scMiddle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scmiddle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scmiddle and K - 8 schools.

Using an innovative technique made possible by Internet surveys and geo - coding technology, Martin West and his colleagues at Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance («Grading Schools,» research) were able to match each member of a nationally representative sample of adults to the specific elementary and middle schools that serve his or her neighborhood.

, Research to guide practice in middle grades education (Vol.

This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents (2010), organizes the 16 research - based characteristics of effective middle grades education into three areas: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; Leadership and Organization; and Culture and Community.

Perhaps the most telling research about the impact of middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall Middle,» Education Next, Fall 2010).

In 2015, the MLER SIG revisited the need for a revised research agenda, one that could reflect the issues and concerns of the ever - changing world of middle grades education.

She is past president of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform, served on AMLE's Research Advisory Committee and This We Believe Revision Committee and the Leadership Council of AERA's Middle Level Education Research SIG.

A subgroup of the Steering Committee decided to design and implement a research project on a specific phenomenon in middle grades education — Common Planning Time (CPT).

We partner with the nation's leading education researchers and practitioners and draw upon decades of high - quality research to provide excellent support and resources to middle grades schools across the nation.

However, the Association for Middle Level Education has researched the benefit of having these «middle grades» separated to ease the transition to high sMiddle Level Education has researched the benefit of having these «middle grades» separated to ease the transition to high smiddle grades» separated to ease the transition to high school.

He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2015, and previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Center for Education Data and Research at the University of Washington and as a 7th - grade math teacher at Westlake Middle School in the Oakland (CA) Unified School District as a Teach For America corps member.

M. Suzanne Donovan and James Ryan Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute «Shifting Instructional Practice in Middle Grades Mathematics: A SERP - SFUSD Partnership»

Lynch et al. (2005) examined the effect of a highly rated middle grades curriculum unit that was congruent with National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996).