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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
Author: Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...

Title: But Is it Service-learning?
Author: Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Education
Description: Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...

Title: DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
Author: Wylie, Alonda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...

Title: EMPOWERING YOUTH: HOW ENGAGEMENT AS YOUNG ACTIVIST INTERNS DEVELOPS THE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN YOUTH
Author: Wagner, Kathryn
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This qualitative dissertation, positioned within a critical consciousness conceptual framework examined the shared experiences of eight Southeast Asian youth, as they engaged in an activism internship at a movement-based youth program. It document...

Title: ENGAGING DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS STUDENTS IN PROBLEM POSING
Author: Sevier, John
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: This study examines the impact of problem posing on developmental mathematics students. Currently, students enter post-secondary institutions underprepared for college mathematics and are required to take developmental mathematics courses. Given t...

Title: EXPLORING ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY
Author: Casto, Amanda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: Schools around the world have experienced unprecedented change during the contemporary era of globalization. The student population is becoming more diverse and, consequently, teachers have been tasked with meeting a wider range of needs from mult...

Title: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION
Author: Allen, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This dissertation study explores the experiences of undergraduate students in a pilot pre-service teacher education course that addresses communication and culture in the classroom. This study is driven by three research questions: 1) do PSTs’ per...

Title: Integration of engineering in a middle grade mathematics classroom: A conceptual framework for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) integration
Author: Pugalenthi, Premkumar
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: In recent years, student centered approaches to learning has gained interest especially STEM based learning. It has led to educational policy and standards reforms including the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which helps teachers, incor...

Title: Literacy coaches: A case study of beginning teacher perceptions of literacy coaching
Author: Bambrick, Jennifer
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perspectives of beginning teachers regarding their work with literacy coaches. The study took place at two elementary schools in a suburban school district in the Southeastern United St...

Title: Redefining The Discipline Gatekeeper: A Mixed Method Analysis Of Urban Middle School Assistant Principals
Author: Williams III, John
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership
Description: African American students, despite over four decades of research and reports, still receive the highest percentage of school discipline infractions (i.e., office referrals, in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, expulsions, and referral...

Title: TALKING THROUGH WALLS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ USES OF ONLINE DISCUSSIONS IN THEIR ELA CLASSROOMS
Author: Cather, Andrew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Language arts
Description: As the availability of digital technology in public schools spreads, teachers are tasked with implementing new technologies in their classroom. One of these technologies is online discussion forums. This qualitative multiple case study focused on ...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTION OF ADHD AND ITS INFLUENCES WHEN TEACHING READING TO ELEMENTARY MALES WITH ADHD
Author: Keller, Beth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The learning needs of students diagnosed with ADHD have been of interest of researchers over the last three decades. It is important to understand how best to support these learners in the classroom as they comprise about 10% of students in our na...

Title: TEACHERS AS GATEKEEPERS: DEVELOPING DEEPER UNDERSTANDINGS TO CULTIVATE PRO-SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN THE ELEMENTARY GRADES
Author: Fitchett, Amy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: AMY FITCHETT: Teachers as gatekeepers: Developing deeper understandings to cultivate pro-social studies learning environments in the elementary grades. (Under the direction of DR.TRACY ROCK) Teacher instructional decision-making is a multi-dimensi...

Title: The Effects of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Instruction on Standardized Reading Test Scores of Third Grade Students
Author: Green, Susan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Despite many school reform initiatives designed to ensure reading proficiency for all students, recent reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal that only 37 percent of fourth grade students and only 34 percent of ...

Title: Understanding the Probability Literacy of High School Students
Author: Coon, Fred
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Mathematics
Description: This multi-case study examined high school students’ probability literacy, with focus on randomness, independence, and sample space. Task-based interviews were used with ten high school students. A Levels of Understanding Matrix (LUM), that was cr...

Title: When the Script Hits the Plan: Using Author's Chair to inform instructional practices within a scripted literacy program
Author: Johnson, Brianne
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: This qualitative case study conducted in a first grade classroom examined the influence of the social interactions that occur during the Author’s Chair (an element of a Writer’s Workshop instructional framework) on a teacher’s instructional decisi...