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Increasing Academic Achievement And Motivation Through The Use Of One-To-One Technology In The Intermediate Classroom, Derrick Stephen Davis
Increasing Academic Achievement And Motivation Through The Use Of One-To-One Technology In The Intermediate Classroom, Derrick Stephen Davis
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This study explored the impact of one-to-one technology on motivating students to higher academic achievement within math and reading curricula in the fourth-grade and fifth-grade intermediate classrooms. Located at an urban/suburban PreK-5 elementary school outside of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 14 educators implemented Apple iPad technology into their everyday instruction to engage students and personalize learning in order to accelerate equitable student achievement. Data was collected over a two year span and a comparison of the quantitative results based on classrooms without one-to-one technology versus one-to-one technology based classrooms, and used statistical measures to explore the …
A Study Comparing Academic Achievement In Reading Of Gifted Students In Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Grouped Settings, Kimberly L. Grengs
A Study Comparing Academic Achievement In Reading Of Gifted Students In Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Grouped Settings, Kimberly L. Grengs
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This is a quantitative study using archival data to focus on the achievement of students identified as gifted and talented in four schools in the Midwest in the same district. This study attempted to find if differences in student reading performance existed between 27 students identified as gifted that were placed in a homogeneous classroom compared to those placed in heterogeneous classrooms. The researcher used the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) data from 2010 to 2014 in reading growth scores. The independent variable is heterogeneous and homogenous grouping classification and the dependent variables are all continuous and consist of the …