MIXED HANDEDNESS AND ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES OF MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS

2008 ◽  
Vol 107 (6) ◽  
pp. 497
Author(s):  
P. S. B. SARMA
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
Achievement Test Scores

Professional Learning Plan: A Tool to Facilitate Teacher Collaboration and Improve Instructional Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 155545892110211
Author(s):  
Dustin Miller ◽  
Anika Ball Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Instructional Practice ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Achievement Test Scores ◽  
Learning Plan

This case study is designed to support the preparation of school administrators and teacher leaders enrolled in courses pertaining to school improvement, instructional leadership, and educational change. The principal of an urban middle school has been charged by the district superintendent to study a downward trend in math state achievement test scores. The case involves a middle school principal and how he might choose to work with his faculty to analyze the issue and develop an appropriate professional learning plan to improve instructional practice. This case scaffolds leader preparation candidates in (a) collaboratively identifying a problem underlying declining state achievement test scores and (b) developing a professional learning plan to support school improvement efforts.

Mixed Handedness and Achievement Test Scores of Middle School Boys

2008 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-506
Author(s):  
P. S. B. Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
Normal Curve ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Academic Deficits ◽  
The Right

The purpose of the study was to replicate findings of an earlier study of fourth grade boys manifesting mixed handedness with a sample. Among 32 mixed-handed boys in Grades 6 to 8, the right-handed writer, left-handed thrower group obtained low spelling scores (Normal Curve Equivalent Scores) on the California Achievement Test significantly more frequently than the left-handed writer, right-handed thrower group. These findings are consistent with data for Grade 4 boys in the earlier study. Findings strengthen the hypotheses that mixed handedness is not a unitary neuropsychological entity and that boys who write with the right hand and throw with the left hand might be at risk for certain academic deficits.

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