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- Title
- Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
- Author
- Courtney, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Language arts, Rhetoric
- Description
- Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...
- Title
- A Comparison of Factors that Influence the Quality of PEPs in Title I Schools
- Author
- Williams, Connie
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between school-based organizational structures that support teachers' development of Personalized Education Plans (PEPs) and their quality as written for third through fifth grade stude...
- 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...
- Title
- An Investigation of Literature Circles and Critical Literacy: Differentiated Learning Opportunities for High-Ability Students
- Author
- Soares, Lina
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Reading, Curriculum planning
- Description
- ABSTRACTThis qualitative research study investigated how literature circles provide an optimal differentiated learning context for high-ability (sixth-grade) readers that centered on the connection between critical pedagogy and collaborative readi...
- Title
- Navigating the Epistemological Rocky Waters of Mathematics Education: An Instrumental Multiple Case Study
- Author
- Schinck, Amélie
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
- Description
- The various beliefs about mathematics and its role in society led to differing beliefs about what it means to learn mathematics and how best to teach it. Mathematics education research and organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of ...
- 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
- The Effects of Explicit Self-regulated Learning Strategy Instruction on Mathematics Achievement
- Author
- Jenkins, Janet
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
- Description
- Self-regulated learning includes the use of a set of strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-evaluating students' efforts toward reaching specific learning goals. This study examined the extent to which explicit self-regulated learning strat...
- Title
- The Relationship of Learning Communities to Engineering Students' Perceptions of the Freshman Year Experience, Academic Performance, and Persistence
- Author
- Tolley, Patricia
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
- Description
- The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the effects of a residential learning community and enrollment in an introductory engineering course to engineering students' perceptions of the freshman year experience, academic performance,...
- 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
- 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...