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Learning and Instruction: A SERP Research Agenda
Change
resistance to, 23
in students’ evolving knowledge, monitoring, 111
Cheche Konnen project, 134
Children entering kindergarten behind their peers
challenge of, 68
Children’s magazines, 102
Children’s Math Worlds, 70
Clement, John, 104
Cognitively Guided Instruction, 86
Collaborative learning, 57
Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research, 146 , 148
Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, 35
Competence
strategic, 67
Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), 116–117
Content material
including less, but at greater depth, 129
“Cooperative learning,” 53
Criteria for choosing research topics, 26–27
existing rigorous R&D efforts already showing promising gains in student achievement, 1–2 , 26
pervasive problems of practice lacking knowledge base to guide instructional interventions, 2 , 26
CTBS. See Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills
Curriculum and pedagogy
for reading instruction in first through third grade, 36–37
in student knowledge of algebra, 91–92
in student knowledge of early reading, 35–37
in student knowledge of physics, 110–114
in student knowledge of reading comprehension beyond the early years, 51–54
in student knowledge of science across the school years, 127–134
in student learning of elementary mathematics, 70–75
D
Data collection systems, 143 , 148
Decoding language, 32–33 , 46
Decontextualized language instruction in the early years, 34
Decontextualized language structures, 33 , 57
Diagnoser program, 115 , 123
Differentiating instruction, 40–41
Discovery Channel, 102
DiSessa, Andrea, 18 , 104
E
Early mathematics assessments, 4 , 81–84
implementing standards-based, 83–84
teacher understanding of, 83
technology support needed to assist teachers, 83
Early reading, 2–3 , 31–49
research agenda initiatives, 3 , 41–49
student knowledge, 31–39
teacher knowledge, 39–41
Early Reading First Guidelines, 42
Early reading preparedness, 3 , 42–43
increased use of one-on-one or small group, adult-child conversation, 43
professional development programs on vocabulary and oral language development, 43
use of read-alouds, 43
use of science-, number-, or world-knowledge-focused curricula, 43
Educational Development Center, 71
Eisenhower math-science programs, 119
Elementary mathematics, 4–5 , 66–87
research agenda initiatives, 4–5 , 80–87
student learning, 66–76
teacher knowledge, 76–80
Embedded phonics, 38
Empirical investigation
methods of, 129–131
posing significant questions for, 143–144
Evaluation. See Assessments
Everyday Mathematics curriculum, 71 , 76 , 151
Exemplary teaching practice learning from, 45
Expected progression of student thinking, 16
Experimentation, 126
F
Follow-through, 19
Force Concept Inventory, 111–112 , 114 , 118–119 , 134 , 138 , 168
Formative assessments
in classroom to assist learning, 167–168
of reading comprehension, 3 , 58–61