Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Recent submissions
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Simulating Uniform- and Triangular- Based Double Power Method Distributions
(Scienpress LtdDepartment of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2017)Power method (PM) polynomials have been used for simulating non-normal distributions in a variety of settings such as toxicology research, price risk, business-cycle features, microarray analysis, computer adaptive ... -
Characterizing Log-Logistic (LL) Distributions through Methods of Percentiles and L-Moments
(HIKARI LtdDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington, January 25)The main purpose of this paper is to characterize the log-logistic (LL) distributions through the methods of percentiles and L-moments and contrast with the method of (product) moments. The method of (product) moments ... -
Twenty-Six Years of Changes in Education Students’ Attitudes
(Center for Promoting Ideas, USADepartment of Curriculum & Instruction, the University of Texas at Arlington, 2015-12)The main purpose of this quantitative study was to compare graduate education students from 1988 with graduate and undergraduate education students from 2014 in regard to their attitudes and expectations about teaching, schools, ... -
"We Gotta Change First" : Racial Literacy in a High School English Classroom
(2014-Sprin)Students need more opportunities to learn how to respond to and counter forms of everyday racism. This qualitative study addresses that need by investigating how one peer-led group engaged in dialogue about issues of race ... -
An Analysis Of Stereotype Threat In African American Engineering Students At Predominantly White, Ethnically Diverse, And Historically Black Colleges And Universities
(ProQuest, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research was to distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering students by analyzing their ... -
An Exploration of the Connections Between Institution Type and Perceived Levels of Stereotype Threat in African American Engineering Students
(Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME)Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)To distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering students, a quantitative study was conducted which examined their perceptions of stereotype threat at three academic ... -
Towards Understanding When Service-Learning Fosters Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Teachers
(Duke University and the SIG-Service-Learning & Experiential Education of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2015)This research uses a mixed methods approach in focusing upon the role service-learning can play in enhancing preservice teachers’ sense of efficacy. Results of the quantitative component reveal significant gains in efficacy ... -
Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages
(Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2010-11-05)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sign languages recruit physical properties of visual motion to convey linguistic information. The present experiment investigated the effect of sign position and ... -
What we know about acquisition of adult literacy: is there hope?
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, June 1994)Literacy acquired in childhood positively influences quality of life, but the effects of literacy acquired in adulthood are not well known. Experience shows that literacy is not easily disseminated to adults and that the ... -
Simulating Burr Type VII Distributions through the Method of 𝐿-moments and 𝐿-correlations
(Scienpress Ltd.Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2014)Burr Type VII, a one-parameter non-normal distribution, is among the less studied distributions, especially, in the contexts of statistical modeling and simulation studies. The main purpose of this study is to introduce ... -
Why we need ancient Greek and how to remember it: Comparisons between Greece and South Asia
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Effective teacher training in low income countries: The power of observational learning research
(World BankDepartment of Education Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, November 2)The Education for All (EFA) initiative depends on students being taught by suitably and sufficiently trained teachers. But time-on-task studies conducted in low-income countries show that relatively little time is being ... -
Developing cross language metrics for reading fluency measurement: Some issues and options
(World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)Since 2005, over 70 oral reading fluency tests have been given in many languages and scripts, either as part of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) or as individual one-minute tests. Particularly in multilingual ... -
Literacy for all in 100 days? A research based strategy for fast progress in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)In low-income countries many students are marginalized very early and remain illiterate. In grades 1-3 they attend rarely, though they may officially drop out in grade 4. Many others graduate from primary school without ... -
How to speed up Arabic literacy for lower-income students? Some insights from cognitive neuroscience.
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Education for All in Low-Income Countries: A Crucial Role for Cognitive Scientists
(Sciencedomain InternationalDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)Donor funding has helped enroll in school most children of low-income countries. However, students get little schooling and few opportunities to encode and consolidate information. Many fail to learn and automatize the ... -
Visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition: Instructional implication for beginning readers in low income countries
(World Bank, 2013)Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving ... -
Can adults become fluent in newly learned scripts?
(Hindawi Publishing CorporationDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)Adults learning new scripts have difficulty becoming automatic readers. They typically read haltingly, understand little of what they read, and may forget letter values. This article presents the hypothesis that halting ... -
Reading fluency measurements in EFA FTI partner countries : outcomes and improvement prospects
(World Bank, 2011)Students in lower-income countries often acquire limited literacy in school and often drop out illiterate. For those who stay, the problem is not detected until it is too late to intervene. Oral reading fluency tests given ... -
Instructional time loss in developing countries : concepts, measurement, and implications
(World Bank, 2009)Students in developing countries are often taught for only a fraction of the intended number of school hours. Time is often wasted due to informal school closures, teacher absenteeism, delays, early departures, and poor ...