Research supporting middle grades practice
By: edited by David L. Hough
Series: Middle grades research journal top studies
Publisher: Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing; Information Age Pub Inc
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlotte, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781617350795; 9781617350801; 9781617350818
Subjects: Middle school teaching; Case studies; Middle school education; English language; Study and teaching (Middle school); Foreign speakers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Using "ESOL rounds" to prepare middle-level candidates for work with English language learners / David C. Virtue; title: Marginalization or collaboration: first year ESL teachers and the middle school context / Courtney George; title: The impact of a professional development program to improve urban middle-level English language learner achievement / Jennifer Friend, Ryan Most, and Kenneth McCrary; title: Quantitative reporting practices in middle-grades research journals: lessons to learn / Robert M. Capraro and Mary Margaret Capraro; title: T-test: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the remedy / Guili Zhang; title: Effective alternative urban middle schools: findings from research on Nativity Miguel schools / L. Mickey Fenzel; title: Reaching the hard to reach: a comparison of two reading interventions with incarcerated youth / Cynthia Calderone ... [et al.]; title: Findings from the first and only national database on elemiddle & middle schools (executive summary) / David L. Hough; title: Impact of environment-based teaching on student achievement: a study of Washington State middle schools / Oksana Bartosh ... [et al.]; title: Hope and achievement goals as predictors of student behavior and achievement in a rural middle school / Christopher O. Walker ... [et al.].