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Teacher qualifications and kindergartners' achievements / Cassandra M. Guarino ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kindergarten--Curricula--United States.
- Kindergarten.
- Curriculum planning--United States.
- Curriculum planning.
- Effective teaching--United States.
- Effective teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers information on the relationship among teacher characteristics, instructional practices, and the achievement of young children through an analysis of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K).
- Contents:
- Intro
- TEACHER QUALIFICATIONSAND KINDERGARTNERS'ACHIEVEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE*
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. BACKGROUND
- CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
- INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES ANDSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
- 3. DATA
- ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENTS
- STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
- TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS
- INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES
- SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS
- 4.METHODS
- STATISTICAL MODELS
- DATA TRANSFORMATIONS AND SAMPLE SIZES
- 5. FINDINGS
- READING ACHIEVEMENT GAIN REGRESSIONS
- School-Level Variables
- Child-Level Variables
- INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE SCALEREGRESSIONS FOR READING
- Teacher-Level Variables
- MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT GAIN REGRESSIONS
- SENSITIVITY ANALYSES
- 6. SUMMARY
- LIMITATIONS
- DISCUSSION
- FUTURE RESEARCH USING ECLS-K DATA
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX A:ECLS-K DIRECT COGNITIVEASSESSMENT MEASURES
- INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT
- THE LANGUAGE SCREENER
- TWO-STAGE ASSESSMENT DESIGN
- COGNITIVE COMPONENTS
- Reading
- Mathematics
- READING AND MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT SCORES
- APPENDIX B:METHODOLOGY USED IN THEDEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTRUCTIONALPRACTICE SCALES
- APPENDIX C:METHODOLOGY USEDIN THE REGRESSION ANALYSES
- IMPUTATION PROCEDURES
- THE USE OF GAIN SCORES
- APPENDIX D:SAMPLE STATISTICS FOR VARIABLESUSED IN ANALYSES
- APPENDIX E: STANDARD ERRORS FROMREGRESSION MODELS
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61324-084-8
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