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Measuring Parent Perceptions of School Climate
(American Psychological Association, 2014)
Parents' attitudes about their children’s schools matter. Their views can shape their children’s attitudes about school, affect their levels of family-school engagement, and influence their residential and school enrollment ...
Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students
(Sage Publications, 2012)
Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, ...
Model breaking points conceptualized
(Springer Verlag, 2014)
Current curriculum initiatives (e.g. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) advocate that models be used in the mathematics classroom. However, despite their ...
The Social Perspective Taking Process: What motivates individuals to take another’s perspective?
(2012)
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A growing literature describes multiple benefits of social perspective taking – many of which are particularly important for schools. Despite these potential benefits for administrators, counselors, ...
Teaching social perspective taking: how educators might learn from the Army
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)
Frequently and accurately discerning others' thoughts and feelings is associated with multiple valued educational outcomes across an array of settings. Despite its foundational role in social interactions, it is unclear ...
Core Academic Language Skills (CALS): An expanded operational construct and a novel instrument to chart school-relevant language proficiency in per-adolescent and adolescent learners.
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Beyond academic vocabulary, the constellation of skills that comprise academic language proficiency has remained imprecisely defined. This study proposes an expanded operationalization of this construct referred to as ‘Core ...