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Title: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Regarding the Role of Technology in Literacy Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study
Author: McIntyre, Beverly
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading, Education
Description: The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in their literacy instruction in the context of one elementary school with a technology-rich environment by investigating those beliefs ...

Title: The Impact of Teachers' Knowledge and Professional Development Experiences on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices they Implement in Literacy
Author: Kavel, Rebecca
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: ABSTRACT With substantial demographic shifts in the U.S. student population, today’s teachers educate growing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Kena, Aud, & Johnson, 2010). While these students bring an ab...

Title: The effects of child teacher relationship training (CTRT) on residential care workers: A mixed methods study
Author: Donald, Emily
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Mental health
Description: Children in the United States are experiencing a mental health crisis characterized by diagnoses of serious mental health disorders (CDC, 2013; SAMHSA, 2012; U.S. Public Health Service, 2000). One component of the array of treatment approaches for...

Title: Understanding at-risk technology users: a phenomenological approach
Author: Acosta, Kristina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth understanding of users' experiences of technology that are at-risk of potential addictive behaviors. The sample consisted of 12 individuals, who self-identified as at-risk technology users. A th...

Title: WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER: IMPLEMENTING THE SIOP MODEL INTO AN URBAN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
Author: Collins, Jennifer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning
Description: Research points to many factors that contribute to the achievement gap between white and minority students however; one important issue that is often overlooked is the academic language status of the student. Knowing that lack of familiarity and p...

Title: “In the contradiction lies the hope”: White student affairs administrators’ understanding of whiteness
Author: Forester, Rachael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Among white people, there is a pervasive mentality that color-evasiveness (Bonilla-Silva, 2003) is an ideal approach to racial equity, meaning many white student affairs professionals may equate refusing to see race as synonymous with being anti-r...

Title: “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
Author: Erega, Arna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mental health
Description: Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...