BACKGROUND The Institute of Medicine (2012) concluded that we must "strengthen schools as the heart of health." To intervene for better outcomes in both health and academic achievement, identifying factors that impact children is essential. Study objectives are to (1) document associations between health assets and academic achievement, and (2) examine cumulative effects of these assets on acad...

Abstract Children’s increasing expertise in composition relies partly on word choice. Little is known about how children consider words as they write, their meta-lexical awareness, or choice of for writing. In this study, we investigate children’s one aspect metalinguistic which guides choices write. We describe child writers express awareness and might relate to writing achievement. view langu...

This editor's column provides an overview of Tamara Tate and Mark Warschauer's "Access, Digital Writing, Achievement," Mary Stewart’s “Confronting the Ideologies Assimilation Colorblindness in Writing Program Assessment through Antiracist Dynamic Criteria Mapping," Analeigh Horton's “Two Sisters a Heuristic for Listening to Multilingual, International Students’ Directed Self-Placement Stories.”

This brief is directed to researchers and adds to the research base about instructional practices that are related to student achievement. Additional evidence on these relationships can suggest specific hypotheses for the future study of such instructional practices, which, in turn, will provide research evidence that could inform professional development of teachers and the writing of instruct...

Richard E. Snow, working from his new aptitude theory, advocated a multidimensional approach to validating the construct of academic achievement. This report briefly describes Snow’s recommended approach and then summarizes new evidence from the present studies in terms of three related themes: (a) multidimensionality of science achievement, (b) transaction between achievement and situations, a...