Information technology integrated into instruction is a current trend. This study presents a “Dynamic Learning System” that focus on elementary school mathematics. The Dynamic Learning System is equipped with multimedia contents allowing students to manipulate interactively and nonlinearly. According to the experiment conducted on seventy-two fourth-grade students, the low-achievement group pre...

Migrant Youths’ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive later and for those who do not spe...

The present study examined teacher attitudes toward dyslexia and the effects of these attitudes on teacher expectations and the academic achievement of students with dyslexia compared to students without learning disabilities. The attitudes of 30 regular education teachers toward dyslexia were determined using both an implicit measure and an explicit, self-report measure. Achievement scores for...

BACKGROUND Early school success is clearly related to later health. A prediction index that uses parent report to assess children's risk for poor academic achievement could potentially direct targeted service delivery to improve child outcomes. METHODS We obtained risk factors through literature review and used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child Files to examine the predicti...

Sound levels from occupied classrooms have been gathered 220 across four grade (3, 5, 8 and 11) over six school days each processed with k-means clustering into speech non-speech clusters. Three metrics describing the classroom acoustics, including average daily A-weighted equivalent level for non-speech, difference between (a signal to noise ratio), mid-frequency averaged reverberation time, w...

There is substantial research demonstrating that a student’s motivation for learning can be largely explained in terms of their preferred achievement orientation. This paper explores a case study investigating ICT derived lead indicators of student achievement orientation, and therefore underlying motivations. The study incorporated Tan’s (2009) research on learning dispositions to quantify stu...

The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling and test scores. Estimates from the two...