Search Results - "Davis, Marcia H."

Increasing Reading Comprehension and Engagement Through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction by Guthrie, John T, Wigfield, Allan, Barbosa, Pedro, Perencevich, Kathleen C, Taboada, Ana, Davis, Marcia H, Scafiddi, Nicole T, Tonks, Stephen

“…Based on an engagement perspective of reading development, we investigated the extent to which an instructional framework of combining motivation support and…”
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Use of an Early Warning Identification and Student Intervention System: A Case Study of Three Effective Promotion Coaches by Davis, Marcia H.

“…U.S. Department of Education research indicates that early warning indicator systems are being used in at least half of high schools in the United States…”
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A review of reading motivation scales by Davis, Marcia H., Tonks, Stephen M., Hock, Michael, Wang, Wenhao, Rodriguez, Aldo

“…Reading motivation is a critical contributor to reading achievement and has the potential to influence its development. Educators, researchers, and evaluators…”
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Motivating adolescents to read by Mac Iver, Martha Abele, Davis, Marcia H., Mac Iver, Douglas J.

“…Motivating today’s adolescents to read is a challenge. Martha Abele Mac Iver, Marcia H. Davis, and Douglas J. Mac Iver discuss the kinds of literacy…”
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A computer adaptive measure of reading motivation by Davis, Marcia H., Wang, Wenhao, Kingston, Neal M., Hock, Michael, Tonks, Stephen M., Tiemann, Gail

“…Background The importance of reading motivation has led to the development of a large number of self‐report reading motivation measures; however, there is…”
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Applying Evidence‐Centered Design in the Development of a Multidimensional Adaptive Reading Motivation Measure by Wang, Wenhao, Kingston, Neal M., Davis, Marcia H., Tiemann, Gail C., Tonks, Stephen, Hock, Michael

“…Adaptive tests are more efficient than fixed‐length tests through the use of item response theory; adaptive tests also present students questions that are…”
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The Effects of Coaching on English Teachers' Reading Instruction Practices and Adolescent Students' Reading Comprehension by Davis, Marcia H, McPartland, James M, Pryseski, Charlene, Kim, Elizabeth

“…Although the use of literacy coaches is becoming more common, few research studies have shown positive effects of coaching on teacher practices and student…”
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Measuring Reading Comprehension of Content Area Texts Using an Assessment of Knowledge Organization by Davis, Marcia H., Guthrie, John T.

“…The authors outline results of 3 studies conducted to examine the structure of disciplinary knowledge from reading measured through proximity data. In Study 1,…”
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An Efficacy Study of a Ninth-Grade Early Warning Indicator Intervention by Mac Iver, Martha Abele, Stein, Marc L., Davis, Marcia H., Balfanz, Robert W., Fox, Joanna Hornig

“…Building on previous research showing how well ninth-grade student behaviors predict on-time high school graduation, this experimental study investigates the…”
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Scaffolding for Engagement in Elementary School Reading Instruction by Lutz, Susan L., Guthrie, John T., Davis, Marcia H.

“…The authors used a new multidimensional coding scheme to assess student learning engagement during 3 Grade 4 reading lessons. Students in 3 classes-2 in which…”
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Implementation of an early warning indicator and intervention system by Davis, Marcia H., Mac Iver, Martha Abele, Balfanz, Robert W., Stein, Marc L., Fox, Joanna Hornig

“…This study focuses on the implementation of an early warning indicator and intervention system in 20 southern high schools. This model included a team of…”
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MOTIVATING STRUGGLING READERS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL THROUGH AN ENGAGEMENT MODEL OF CLASSROOM PRACTICE by Guthrie, John T., Davis, Marcia H.

“…Many struggling readers in middle school are disengaged from reading. In addition to low achievement, these students can have low motivation for reading. Many…”
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The effects of language learning strategy instruction on college students’ English achievement and learner autonomy in mainland China: A meta-analysis by Wang, Xue, Zhang, Qiyang, Chen, Huanchun, Neitzel, Amanda J., Davis, Marcia H.

“…•Strategy instruction significantly improves English achievement and learner autonomy among college students in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) classrooms…”
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Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA): Evaluating ALFA Lab Using a Regression Discontinuity Study by Davis, Marcia H., Schoeneberger, Jason, Rhoads, Christopher, Mac Iver, Douglas J., Zhang, Xiaodong, Mac Iver, Martha, Spinney, Samantha

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Young Children Surfing: Gender Differences in Computer Use by Kirmani, Mubina Hassanali, Davis, Marcia H, Kalyanpur, Maya

“…Computers have become an important part of young children's lives, both as a source of entertainment and education. The National Association for the Education…”
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Effects of text markers and familiarity on component structures of text -based representations by Davis, Marcia H

“…Reading theorists agree that the outcome of reading comprehension is a text representation (Gernsbacher, Varner, & Faust, 1990; Kintsch, 1998). To measure…”
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A Review of: "Improving Urban Middle Schools: Lessons from the Nativity Schools. L. Mickey Fenzel.": Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009, 130 pages. $16.95 (softcover), $59.50 (hardcover) by Davis, Marcia H.

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