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...

Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fortysix traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers specialize in a subset of subjects in which they have demonstrated relative strength (based on val...

riculum Framework of 1985. At the elementary school level, broadening the primary focus of the mathematics curriculum on arithmetic skill and learning through memorization to develop mathematical thinking and understanding of concepts as well will require a major shift in emphasis for many teachers. Unless teachers themselves are given an opportunity to reconsider their own images of mathematic...

I f we want to produce good French teachers in schools, should we require them to learn Latin in college but not French? After all, Latin is the mother language of French and is linguistically more complex than French; by mastering a more complex language teachers could enhance their understanding of the French they already know from their school days. To correlate their knowledge of French wit...

A previously published classroom teaching method for helping students visualize and understand Michaelis-Menten kinetics (19) was used as an anticipatory set with high school and middle school science teachers in an Illinois Math and Science Partnership Program. As part of the activity, the teachers were asked to collect data by replicating the method and to analyze and report the data. All con...

Marcus L, Plumeri J, Baker GM, Miller JS. A teacher-developed inquiry model to teach the molecular basis of hyperbolic kinetics in biological membrane transport. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 165–175, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2013.—A previously published classroom teaching method for helping students visualize and understand Michaelis-Menten kinetics (19) was used as an anticipatory set with high s...

Children‘s literature books, more specifically, early counting books, can be an engaging means for exploring numeracy with young children. Although there is general consensus in the current literature supporting the integration of high-quality children‘s books to teach mathematics; a user-friendly instrument to guide the evaluation of early counting books does not exist. Consequently, I created...

Research efforts focused on developing "active reports" are currently underway. Active reports are designed to foster communication among teachers, students, and parents by listening to all stakeholders, using assessment information to guide teaching and learning, and to reconcile potential conflicts. Open student models can handle different views of the student. These views support different k...