Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Recent submissions
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Absenteeism and beyond: instructional time loss and consequences
(World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, October 20)Studies have shown that learning outcomes are related to the amount of time students engage in learning tasks. However, visits to schools have revealed that students are often taught for only a fraction of the intended ... -
Efficient Learning For the Poor: New insights Into Literacy Acquisition for Children
(SpringerDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008)Reading depends on the speed of visual recognition and capacity of short-term memory. To understand a sentence, the mind must read it fast enough to capture it within the limits of the short-term memory. This means that ... -
Teaching adults to read better and faster: results from an experiment in Burkina Faso
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Two cognitively oriented methods were tested in Burkina Faso to help illiterates learn to read more efficiently. These were (a) speeded reading of increasingly larger word units and (b) phonological awareness ... -
Improving adult literacy outcomes: lessons from cognitive research for developing countries
(World Bank, 2003)Abstract Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1-5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to primary ... -
Adult Literacy: A Review of Implementation Experience
(World Bank, Operations Evaluation DepartmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2003)Worldwide, nearly a billion adults, at least 600 million of them women, are illiterate. Adult literacy is highly relevant to poverty alleviation efforts worldwide, because in the 21st century much of the information needed ... -
Efficient Learning for the Poor : Insights from the Frontier of Cognitive Neuroscience
(The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World BankDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006)This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman's terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such as: Why do children ... -
Strategies and policies for literacy
(UNESCO, 2004-05-31)Executive Summary Despite the existence of about one billion illiterates in the world, adult literacy programs make up 1–5 percent of government or donor budgets, and they remain severely underfunded in comparison to ... -
Cognitive Psychology in the Seminar Room
(Economic Development Institute, World Bank, 1990)Summary: This paper looks at ways for a trainer giving a seminar to increase the chances that participants will retain the material presented and use it in their work. It also looks at the techniques which make information ... -
A Texas city magnet program: 1981-82 evaluation materials and results
(Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. Department of Research and Evaluation, 1984)In order to promote voluntary integration in two high schools and a middle school, the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas developed a magnet program that offers specialized curricula: engineering at the all ... -
A Model for a Magnet Program Which Promotes Both High Achievement and Voluntary Integration
(April 1984)In order to provide high quality specialized instruction and to achieve voluntary integration, a magnet program was developoed in the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District.The program is in its third year. of ... -
A Method for Simulating Burr Type III and Type XII Distributions through 𝐿-Moments and 𝐿-Correlations
(Hindawi Publishing CorporationDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)This paper derives the Burr Type III and Type XII family of distributions in the contexts of univariate 𝐿-moments and the 𝐿- correlations. Included is the development of a procedure for specifying nonnormal distributions ... -
An L-Moment Based Characterization of the Family of Dagum Distributions
(Scienpress Ltd.Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)This paper introduces a method for simulating univariate and multivariate Dagum distributions through the method of 𝐿-moments and 𝐿-correlations. A method is developed for characterizing non-normal Dagum distributions ... -
Portraits of Practice: A Cross-Case Analysis of Two First-Grade Teachers and Their Grouping Practices
(National Council of Teachers of EnglishDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, 2013-02)his interpretive study provides a cross-case analysis of the literacy instruction of two first-grade teachers, with a particular focus on their grouping practices. One key finding was the way in which these teachers drew ... -
Theme-based portfolio assessment in social studies teacher education
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WebQuest : Using internet resources for cooperative inquiry
(National Council for the Social StudiesDepartment of Teacher Education, Norther Illinois University, 2001) -
Where in the world is Lorena, TX? : Enhancing local history projects with technology
(National Council for Social StudiesDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction, Baylor University, 2003) -
Latin America online: Internet resources and web-based lessons
(National Council for the Social StudiesDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction,Baylor University, 2003) -
Discovering Africa through internet-based Geographic Information Systems: a Pan-African Summit Simulation
(National Council for the Social StudiesUniversity of North Texas, 2007) -
American Indian Students Speak Out: What's Good Citizenship?
(Ball State University, 2008)For much of our country’s history, citizenship has eluded American Indian people. With this in mind, the authors conducted a study to determine the perceptions of eighth and eleventh grade American Indian students regarding ... -
Mental mapping: Today my home, tomorrow the world!
(National Council of the Social StudiesUniversity of Georgia, 1998)