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Title: USES OF ARGUMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS CLASSROOM: MEDIATING STUDENT GENERALIZATION WITHIN RIEMANN SUMS AND INTEGRATION
Author: Bumgardner, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: Many of the struggles students face in postsecondary mathematics courses arise from their rote memorization of mathematical concepts, rather than having developed a relational understanding of these concepts. A relational understanding of mathemat...

Title: The effects of students' profile, communication, and discourse in an advanced placement statistics classroom
Author: Royster, Norma
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning, Education, Secondary
Description: This study sought to describe the communicative aspect that should be part of any secondary mathematics classroom and, more specifically, the statistics classroom. Focusing on the observation of students allowed for a detailed account of the learn...

Title: Teaching Literature of War From Multiple Perspectives Within The North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Author: Landers, Michael
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Literature, Education, Secondary
Description: This thesis offers a rationale for a set of teaching strategies and lesson plans for teaching the literature and film of war to North Carolina high school students within the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The purposes and challenges of ...

Title: THE EFFECT OF MENTORING AND EXTENDED LEARNING PROGRAM ON NORTH CAROLINA END-OF-COURSE TESTS
Author: Gibbs, Portia
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Education, Secondary
Description: ABSTRACTPORTIA GIBBS-ROSEBORO. The effect of a mentoring and extended learning program on North Carolina end-of-course Tests. (Under the direction of DR. COREY LOCK)The purpose of this research study was to determine if effective interventions in ...

Title: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
Author: Fisher, Molly
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...

Title: NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS' AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM
Author: Parker, Ruth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Secondary
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the perceptions of college instructors and high school teachers regarding the purpose and benefits of the Early College High School program in North Carolina. College instructors and high schoo...

Title: Exploring Secondary Classroom Engagement in Mathematics
Author: Cline, Jessica
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
Description: The term engagement appears in teacher effectiveness models as well as state and federal legislation, including the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act of 1965 (ESEA), known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ES...

Title: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Graham, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...

Title: EFFECTS OF THE SOLVE STRATEGY ON THE MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Author: Freeman, Shaqwana
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
Description: Students with learning disabilities are most typically characterized as struggling readers (i.e., 80-90% of students are identified on the basis of reading failure; LD OnLine, 2008 Lerner, 1989; Lyon, Fletcher, Shaywitz, Torgesen, Wood, et al., 20...

Title: CURRENT GRADING PRACTICES OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE CORE CONTENT AREAS: WHAT DO GRADES MEAN?
Author: McLean, Nathan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Secondary
Description: Using survey research methodology, the study investigates assessment and grading practices of secondary school teachers. A total of 248 teachers in the Piedmont and coastal regions of North Carolina completed a web-based survey examining academic ...

Title: An Investigation of the Mental Health Literacy of High School Advanced Placement Teachers
Author: Kraftson, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Secondary, Teachers--Training of, Educational counseling
Description: With adolescent mental health problems on the rise, secondary school teachers are in a prime position to support students. This study sought to fill a scholarly research gap and inform future mental health literacy (MHL) training needs for teacher...

Title: Addressing media literacy in K-12 classrooms
Author: Ramsey, L. Heather
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Media literacy, Education, Elementary, Education, Secondary
Description: A study of K-12 core content area teachers’ experiences teaching digital citizenship found that 80% (n=9) addressed topics of media literacy in their classrooms. The study looked at how teachers integrated media literacy topics into instruction, a...

Title: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study Exploring How the Lives of High School Male Students Enrolled in an Alternative Education Program Mediate Their Reading and Writing Inside The English Classroom
Author: Gates, Lily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Secondary, Reading, Education
Description: Historically, male students have been known to score lower than their female counterparts in reading and writing on standardized measures of academic success. While scholars, teachers, and even policymakers have attempted to explain and mitigate t...

Title: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IN HIGH SCHOOL COMMERCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS
Author: Vintinner, Jean
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education, Secondary
Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the teachers' manuals of the leading commercial high school reading programs to determine the extent to which they provide effective vocabulary instruction as advocated by the leading professional organizat...