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A Multiple Case Study on the Lived Experiences of Five Upper Elementary School Teachers Who Transitioned from Traditional Grading Practices to Standards-Based Grading Practices
Title
A Multiple Case Study on the Lived Experiences of Five Upper Elementary School Teachers Who Transitioned from Traditional Grading Practices to Standards-Based Grading Practices
Author
Frazier, Meghan
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Through a qualitative multiple case study, the researcher’s goal in conducting this study was to investigate and understand the experiences of five upper elementary teachers in grades three through five who transitioned from traditional grading pr...
A Phenomenological Study of African American College Students' Recovery Experiences In A Collegiate Recovery Program
Title
A Phenomenological Study of African American College Students' Recovery Experiences In A Collegiate Recovery Program
Author
Huggins, Marie
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
This study examined the experiences of recovery among African American college students participating in collegiate recovery programs (CRPs). A phenomenological qualitative approach was utilized to collect and analyze data. The purpose of this stu...
A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Title
A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author
Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description
This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...
Adolescent Response to Parental Traumatic Brain Injury and Ambiguous Loss
Title
Adolescent Response to Parental Traumatic Brain Injury and Ambiguous Loss
Author
Leach, William
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Parental traumatic brain injury (TBI-P) and the effect it has on adolescents living in the home has been mostly avoided in the current literature. Even more rare in the literature is the idea of ambiguous loss, coined by Boss (1991). An ambiguous ...
Concrete Roses: An Exploration of the Parallel Lived Experiences of Black Girls and Women in K-12 Schools
Title
Concrete Roses: An Exploration of the Parallel Lived Experiences of Black Girls and Women in K-12 Schools
Author
Davis, Alicia
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
ALICIA W. DAVIS. Concrete roses: An exploration of the parallel lived experiences of Black girls and women in K-12 schools. (Under the direction of DR. BETTIE RAY BUTLER)The schooling and leadership experiences of Black girls and women are overloo...
Developing Temporal Machine Learning Approaches to Support Modeling, Explaining, and Sensemaking of Academic Success and Risk of Undergraduate Students
Title
Developing Temporal Machine Learning Approaches to Support Modeling, Explaining, and Sensemaking of Academic Success and Risk of Undergraduate Students
Author
Nur, Nasheen
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Artificial intelligence, Education
Description
The main goal of learning analytics and early detection systems is to extract knowledge from student data to understand students’ trends of activities towards success and risk and design intervention methods to improve learning performance and exp...
Educational Needs Assessment for African Americans with Homeschooled Children
Title
Educational Needs Assessment for African Americans with Homeschooled Children
Author
Rhyne Byrd, Kelly
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Trends in homeschooling show that enrollment for K-12 students is on the rise, particularly with African American families. For families choosing to homeschool their children, there is greater flexibility and range of choice in curriculum programs...
Evaluating the impact of working in an online environment
Title
Evaluating the impact of working in an online environment
Author
Richardson, Kara, Ambroise, Sharmily
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education, Communication
Description
Research has found that peer mentorship can play a valuable role in a student’s personal growth and development. At UNC Charlotte, the Communication Across the Curriculum program trains communication consultants to serve as peer mentors and provid...
Evidence-Based and Makerspaced: Preservice Teachers’ Dispositions, Perceptions, and Preparedness to Teach Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Title
Evidence-Based and Makerspaced: Preservice Teachers’ Dispositions, Perceptions, and Preparedness to Teach Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Author
Holland, Abby
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
The purpose of this qualitative research project was to explore the perceptions, practices, and roles that a team of six (6) preservice teachers developed regarding make-based learning, which is informed by constructionism and teaching students wi...
Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
Title
Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
Author
Dervin, Alicia
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description
Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...
Exploring factors impacting social justice advocacy attitudes among play therapists
Title
Exploring factors impacting social justice advocacy attitudes among play therapists
Author
Chase, Lauren
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Overall, the United States’ population is becoming more diverse, and children in minority groups have many disadvantages due to circumstances beyond their control. They experience more poverty (US Census Bureau, 2017), unequal educational opportun...
Factors Affecting Grades: An Examination of North Carolina School Performance Grades
Title
Factors Affecting Grades: An Examination of North Carolina School Performance Grades
Author
Dangerfield-Persky, Felicia
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
This quantitative study explores the potential school-level and school district-level factors associated with North Carolina school performance grades in K-5 elementary schools. The desire was to examine if any of the school- or school district-le...
I'm gonna tell you that we're not a myth": Native students' and non-Native teachers' perspectives on anti-Indigenous curriculum and classrooms
Title
I'm gonna tell you that we're not a myth": Native students' and non-Native teachers' perspectives on anti-Indigenous curriculum and classrooms
Author
Hunt, Brittany
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Though North Carolina is home to the 9th largest Indigenous population in America, as well as to the largest Tribe East of the Mississippi, North Carolina curriculum and schools often erode Indigenous histories from the classroom. Indigenous peopl...
Journeys Into the K-12 Classroom: Latina Teachers' Narratives of Becoming
Title
Journeys Into the K-12 Classroom: Latina Teachers' Narratives of Becoming
Author
Reid, Alicia
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
A Project in Humanizing Inquiry (San Pedro & Kinloch, 2017), this qualitative dissertation study combined in-depth interview with a LatCrit framework to story the journeys of three Latinas into teaching. Data analysis underscored the layered racia...
Loving and Leaving the Classroom: Contextualizing the Attrition of Black Women Teachers From Urban Schools
Title
Loving and Leaving the Classroom: Contextualizing the Attrition of Black Women Teachers From Urban Schools
Author
Lee, Shanique
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description
Since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation, Black women teachers (BWTs) have had perpetually high rates of attrition, despite their legacy of providing high quality, emancipatory education (Acosta, 2019; Carver-Th...
Putting Equity to Work: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Teacher Candidates Perceptions on Equity and Social Justice Pedagogy in a Teacher Preparation Program
Title
Putting Equity to Work: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Teacher Candidates Perceptions on Equity and Social Justice Pedagogy in a Teacher Preparation Program
Author
Jones-Fosu, Stephanie
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
For decades, White supremacy and Whitewashed teacher preparation curriculum have been used to prepare a majority White female teacher workforce. This same workforce has had limited exposure to diversity and a lack of cultural competence and critic...
Reclaiming Our Legacy: A Qualitative Study of Service-learning and Learning About Service Through The Experiences of African American Women Educators in Urban Schools
Title
Reclaiming Our Legacy: A Qualitative Study of Service-learning and Learning About Service Through The Experiences of African American Women Educators in Urban Schools
Author
Moore, Tamera
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education and state, Education
Description
As the number of minority students in public schools increases in the U.S., the teacher workforce and administration remain majority White. Increased access to service-learning will help mitigate opportunity gaps that exist in marginalized communi...
Relationship Between Writing Self-Efficacy and Writing Achievement: Evidence from an Empirical Study and a Meta-Analysis
Title
Relationship Between Writing Self-Efficacy and Writing Achievement: Evidence from an Empirical Study and a Meta-Analysis
Author
Sun, Ting
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
This three-article format dissertation aims to provide evidence of the effect size of the relationship between writing self-efficacy and writing achievement in an empirical study and a meta-analysis, and compare three methods, the averaging method...
The Balancing of the Artist-Teacher Dual Identity in K-12 Public School Visual Art Educators
Title
The Balancing of the Artist-Teacher Dual Identity in K-12 Public School Visual Art Educators
Author
Wall, Deborah
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Education, Educational leadership, Art--Study and teaching
Description
DEBORAH MILLS WALL. THE BALANCING OF THE ARTIST-TEACHER DUAL IDENTITY IN K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL VISUAL ART EDUCATORS(Under the direction of Dr. Rebecca Shore) The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to explore how artist-teachers perceive ...
The Development and Use of a Coaching Observation Tool to Examine Coaching Behaviors
Title
The Development and Use of a Coaching Observation Tool to Examine Coaching Behaviors
Author
Jolly, Ann
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Teachers--Training of, Education
Description
The field of education relies heavily on instructional coaches to build teacher capacity in the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) with fidelity. Although observation tools are used to measure the fidelity of implementation by teach...