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Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Per Pupil Expenditures on Instruction and Academic Outcomes in Michigan Public Schools
Author: Bryant, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This research quantitatively explores the relationship between per pupil expenditures on instruction and academic outcomes on Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) in Michigan state public schools. This study particularly focuses ...

Title: Algebraic Thinking of Sixth Graders Through the Lens of Multimodality
Author: Lentz, Ute
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: This study explores ways in which sixth graders without prior formal algebra instruction attempt to generalize algebraic growing patterns. In a teaching experiment setting, two pairs of students solved the growing pattern tasks while having access...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: CASTLES, GENDER, AND CHILD CULTURE: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF MEDIA AND PLAY
Author: Montgomery, Shannon
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: This dissertation revealed two distinct types of castles which are marketed to boys and girls: Fortresses for boys are embedded with the masculine stereotypes of violence and active agents, and Palaces for girls imply domesticity, passivity, and a...

Title: DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR THRESHOLD CONCEPTS IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS METHODS COURSES
Author: Glavich, Courtney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Elementary, Teachers--Training of
Description: Teacher education programs have long sought to increase preservice teachers' competency through coursework that promotes content, pedagogical knowledge, and specialized forms of knowledge that interweave the two. Still, newly licensed teachers are...

Title: Does the proportion of white students predict discipline disparities? A national, school-level analysis of six racial/ethnic student groups
Author: Triplett, Nicholas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Education
Description: Racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline have existed for decades (Children’s Defense Fund, 1975), and have had a disproportionately negative effect on the educational attainment, social/emotional well being and life chances of students of c...

Title: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL ENGAGEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS IN AN URBAN SETTING
Author: Reynolds, Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This study examined the impact of culturally responsive problem-based learning on the instructional engagement of African American students in an urban high school setting. The study explores how culturally responsive pedagogy and Problem-based Le...

Title: Filling the Void: Exploring Predictors of African American Beginning Teacher Retention
Author: Hopper, Eugenia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: African American teachers make up only about 7% of teachers in the United States, while African American students make up 16% of the public school population. Unfortunately, African American teachers leave teaching at almost a 60% higher rate when...

Title: Mathematics Readiness of Entering College Students
Author: Blat, Catherine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this descriptive research study was to identify key mathematics competencies first-time college students need to succeed in entry-level college mathematics courses. The study was conducted at a large, urban public, research universi...

Title: PHONEMIC AWARENESS INSTRUCTION IN ONE DISTRICT’S KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW CLOSELY CLASSROOM PRACTICES REFLECT RESEARCH-BASED BEST PRACTICES
Author: Farrow, Joyce
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how closely kindergarten teachers in a high performing school district in North Carolina instruct students towards mastery of phonemic awareness skills. This study explored to what degree t...

Title: School Choice and the Latinx Community: Increased Opportunity/Exclusion in Mecklenburg County
Author: Handler, Laura
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education and state
Description: Advocates of market-based reform strategies such as school choice claim they will offer families better options to obtain a high-quality education for their child, yet empirical studies offer inconclusive evidence of gains in student achievement a...

Title: School Scheduling and At-Risk Students: Looped Perspectives for Academic Support
Author: Kester, Kyle
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: KYLE R. KESTER. School scheduling and at-risk students: Looped perspectives for academic support. Students are graduating without requisite skills needed for life beyond high school- or not graduating at all (Institute of Education, 2014; New Amer...

Title: THE CASE FOR BUILDING ON STUDENTS' PROPORTIONAL REASONING FOR SLOPE-RELATED TASKS
Author: Kendrick, Curtis
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: ABSTRACTCURTIS D. KENDRICK. The case for building on students’ proportional reasoning for slope-related tasks. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID K. PUGALEE)The purpose of this research was to identify the proportional reasoning strategies that sev...

Title: THE CONSCIENTIZATION OF SILENT VOICES: AN INTERPRETIVE CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF ASSIMILATION AND ACCULTURATION ON AMERICAN-RAISED, FIRST GENERATION AND SECOND GENERATION ETHIOPIAN WOMEN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, SELF-IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY
Author: Wynn, Adrienne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Women's studies, Area studies
Description: Acculturation for Ethiopians in America systemically require adaptation to the dominant culture. Prior research findings illustrate that acculturation mechanically progress towards assimilation, an absorption of a foreign culture’s psychological, ...

Title: Your Library Ain't Like Mine: Perceptions of Quality School Library Programming From Library Professionals
Author: Creech, Tracy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Library science
Description: There are few instances in which school library professionals are able to give input as to what constitutes a quality school library media program. This study seeks to determine if there are key differences in perceptions of school library program...