Academic self-efficacy and perceived teacher support in relation to academic skill growth across one academic year were examined in the study. Participants included 193 5th-grade students. Teachers collected curriculum-based measures (CBM) of reading and math on three occasions as part of routine academic benchmarks, and researchers collected student-reported measures of academic self-efficacy ...

ion. When asked, what is a fraction?, we say it is just something concrete, like a slice of pizza. And when this doesn’t work, we continue to skirt the question by offering more metaphors and more analogies: What about a fraction as “part of a whole”? As another way to write division problems? As an “expression” of the form m/n for whole numbers m and n (n > 0)? As another way to write ratios? ...

Purpose – Elementary teachers‘ understanding of mathematics is a significant contributor to student success with mathematics. Consequently, teacher educators are frequently charged with the responsibility of supporting the development of prospective elementary teachers‘ mathematics content knowledge as they re-learn concepts in ways they are required to teach. The purpose of this paper is to de...

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account for more than 85 percent of the between-country performance variation, with roughly 25 percent accruin...

language and literacy, math, science, social studies, and the arts. A high-quality program also helps facilitate children’s social, emotional, moral, and physical development, as well as helps shape their attitudes, beliefs, dispositions, and habits. In rigorous studies, preschools that have demonstrated the largest social and academic gains for children employ well-paid teachers who hold at le...

We present data from a teacher professional development intervention, a work circle where researchers (expert in the domain of spatial reasoning) and teachers (expert in teaching in a classroom) worked together to develop spatial tools, based on lab evidence, which could be used in actual classroom lessons. We found that, although spatial anxiety was not directly addressed during work circle ac...

Adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were compared with a control group on a comprehensive assessment battery. More ADHD teenagers had oppositional defiant disorder (68%) and conduct disorder (39%) and were rated as more impaired in social competence, behavioral and emotional adjustment, and school performance by parents and teachers than control teens. The ADHD yout...

SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment) is an inquiry-based mobile learning framework designed to promote student-centered inquiry and reflection leveraging mobile media in the classroom setting. Students can quickly create their own inquiry items based on their own learning and knowledge using SMILE. This paper introduces seven phases of SMILE that are applicable to math cla...