Exploring the Relationships Between Grade, Gender, and Immigration Status on Reading Motivation Among Multilingual Elementary Students

In this study, we aim to address this gap by investigating how various individual learner characteristics such as grade level, gender, and immigration status affected upper-elementary school MLs’ reading motivation in English. To achieve the goal, we adopted a three-factor reading motivation model that includes three interrelated constructs (instrumental, integrative, and social motivation) based on factors which have been found to motivate individuals to learn a second or additional language. The sample for this survey research included 132 MLs in fourth-to-sixth grades from six schools in a Midwestern state. Findings indicate that while social motivation, which is prominent in the general reading motivation literature, is pertinent to MLs’ reading motivation, other constructs such as integrative motivation and instrumental motivation should be given attention. In fact, instrumental motivation was the construct which seemed to motivate MLs the most out of the constructs included in the survey

A Case Study of Reading Instruction in a Philippine Classroom

In this article, we describe the reading practices in a public and high-achieving 6th grade English classroom in the Philippines. By utilizing a four resources model, we discuss the different roles that students assume in this classroom. Students in this class are mainly code breakers and text users and have limited opportunities to assume the other two roles of the four resources model. This case study provides a different view of reading, specifically a view of a culture of reading wherein higher status is given to oral reading performance rather than comprehension. We describe the way a high-achieving 6th grade Philippine classroom perceives reading. Through this article, we would like to contribute to the research literature on Philippine education and increase our knowledge of reading practices as they are conceived and practiced in this particular classroom

Similar Settings, Different Story Lines: The Positioning of ESL Teachers in Two Middle Schools

As the need to better support English learners’ achievement in academically rigorous content area classes increases, so does the call for expanded ESL teacher – content area teacher collaboration. However, the nature and outcomes of such collaboration depend on how these professionals are positioned within their school settings. Using positioning theory as an analytic lens, this article investigates the collaborative interactions of two ESL teachers in two separate, but demographically similar suburban middle schools. It examines the impact of these ESL teachers’ collaborations on ELLs’ opportunities for academic language and content area learning, and it calls for the field to purposefully consider issues of culture and agency in teacher partnerships. Overall, this article informs educators’ and teacher educators’ efforts to optimize school-based, ELL--focused teacher collaboration

The Effects of Metacognitive Reading Strategy Training (MRST) on Elementary Literacy Teachers’ Critical Reading Ability

Some studies among literacy teachers revealed inadequate comprehension skills, suggesting the need to examine their knowledge and use of reading strategies and reading skills. This quasi-experimental study determined whether metacognitive reading strategy training (MRST) intervention would improve teachers’ critical reading ability. Eleven public school elementary literacy teachers from southern Philippines completed 12 intervention lessons implemented over 63 sessions (96 hours) conducted at the school’s professional learning community. The lessons, which adopted the explicit teaching procedure, focused on the key strategies Making Inferences, Making Judgments, Monitoring and Clarifying, and Summarizing. Applegate et al.’s (2008) Critical Reading Inventory (CRI) measured changes in critical reading ability. Wilcoxon signed-rank test results showed a significant increase in overall CRI score and subscale scores for literal and evaluative comprehension, but not for inferential comprehension. The comprehension difficulty type known as “Imprecise concept” in relation to things and events was found to be the main cause of difficulty in forming inferences. This difficulty came with the inability to synthesize information correctly from different parts of the text. Overall, explicit instruction of metacognitive reading strategies effectively improved participants’ critical reading ability. School-based professional development interventions can be an effective avenue for improving literacy teachers’ knowledge and skills in reading

A Case Study of Reading Instruction in a Philippine Classroom

In this article, we describe the reading practices in a public and high-achieving 6th grade English classroom in the Philippines. By utilizing a four resources model, we discuss the different roles that students assume in this classroom. Students in this class are mainly code breakers and text users and have limited opportunities to assume the other two roles of the four resources model. This case study provides a different view of reading, specifically a view of a culture of reading wherein higher status is given to oral reading performance rather than comprehension. We describe the way a high-achieving 6th grade Philippine classroom perceives reading. Through this article, we would like to contribute to the research literature on Philippine education and increase our knowledge of reading practices as they are conceived and practiced in this particular classroom

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The fundamental re-thinking and redesign of the Military Pay Document Processing System

All organizations, both private and public, must improve, streamline, and automate their business practices to adjust to rigorous demands of a highly volatile marketplace, austere financial resources, and manpower reductions. This thesis analyzes the potential of business process reengineering (BPR) to dramatically improve the Military Pay Document Process (MPDP) for the United States Army and the United States Coast Guard financial communities. Based on Nissen's methodology the MPDP is analyzed and three redesign alternatives are developed, which are capable of yielding order of magnitude improvements in cycle time and cost. This thesis includes process simulation and intelligent systems analysis of the Army and Coast Guard's baseline MPDP to generate and evaluate the three redesign alternatives. Simulation runs demonstrate that cycle time and cost can be reduced substantially by redesigning the MPDP. The redesign alternatives take a comprehensive look at transformation enablers and information technology (IT) capable of eliminating the Personnel Administrative Clerks (PAC) and the finance office functions as they pertain to pay transaction processing. The research concludes that the Army and Coast Guard's MPDP can be dramatically improved by eliminating middlemen functions (PAC and finance office) and shortening the value chain using IT along with other transformation enablershttp://www.archive.org/details/fundamentalrethi00zellCaptain, United States Army.Lieutenant, United States Coast GuardApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Influencia del clima organizacional en la gestión pedagógica en instituciones educativas de secundaria–Moquegua

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar en qué medida influye el clima organizacional en la gestión pedagógica en instituciones educativas de secundaria del cercado de Moquegua en el año 2016, para ello se planteó la hipótesis, el clima organizacional influye significativamente en la gestión pedagógica. Es un estudio de tipo correlacional explicativo, con un diseño transeccional correlacional causal, se desarrolló sobre una población de 127 docentes y la muestra estuvo integrada por 55 profesores de Educación secundaria de instituciones educativas del cercado de Moquegua. Para recoger datos se emplearon la técnica de la encuesta, los instrumentos utilizados fueron el cuestionario sobre clima organizacional y el cuestionario sobre gestión pedagógica. Los resultados obtenidos señalan que el clima organizacional influye significativamente en la gestión pedagógica bajo la percepción de docentes en instituciones educativas secundaria del cercado de Moquegua, en el año 2016, con un Rho Spearman r=0.998, un Sig. = 0,00, y un coeficiente de determinación de R2= 0,963, indicando que el variable clima organizacional influye a la gestión pedagógica en un 96,3% en una correlación positiva muy fuerte

La demanda de revisión judicial y su incidencia en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva en el SAT de Lima, 2021

El objetivo de este trabajo investigativo fue explicar de qué manera la presentación de la demanda de revisión judicial incide en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva en el SAT de Lima, periodo 2021. Teniendo en cuenta el objetivo señalado, se recurrió al enfoque cualitativo, por ser el más apropiado para describir las categorías objeto de estudio, utilizando técnicas como la entrevista y análisis documental aplicado a la doctrina y jurisprudencia. El tipo de investigación es básico, toda vez que es una investigación teórica, limitándonos a describir si se afecta el procedimiento coactivo con la presentación de la demanda de revisión; el diseño investigativo corresponde a una teoría fundamentada, dado que se buscó probar los supuestos planteados. Los resultados encontrados nos permitieron establecer que la interposición de la demanda de revisión judicial incide en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva, paralizando su continuación, además que levanta inmediatamente las medidas cautelares trabadas por el ejecutor. Se concluyó que este mecanismo legal de la demanda de revisión judicial, no ha sido objeto de mayor desarrollo, existiendo vacíos legales, el mismo que está siendo desnaturalizado y utilizado por los obligados para desvincularse del procedimiento y liberar sus fondos, afectando los ingresos de la entidad recaudadora

Crystal structure of the N‐terminal region of human Ash2L shows a winged‐helix motif involved in DNA binding

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