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Title: A Qualitative Interview-based Study of the Lived Experiences of North Carolina Community College Students Who Report Food Insecurity
Author: Stafford, Nanci
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Community colleges--Study and teaching, Adult education, Education, Higher
Description: AbstractA Qualitative Interview-Based Study of the Lived Experiences of North Carolina Community College Students Who Report Food Insecurity (Under the direction of Dr. Alan Mabe)This study represents North Carolina community college student exper...

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: Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms, In-Service Professional Development, and the Mediation of Mainstream Elementary School Teachers' Professional Subjectivities in the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Siefert, Barbara
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Career development
Description: This dissertation study employed participatory methods of qualitative inquiry to understand how, in the setting of the North Carolina piedmont, a district-initiated multi-tiered professional development program mediated mainstream elementary schoo...

Title: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...

Title: On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Author: Welsh, Ryan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education--Philosophy
Description: Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning throu...

Title: Service Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students
Author: Miller, Aimee
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: ABSTRACTAIMEE MOORE MILLER. Service-Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students. (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE).Social-emotional learning and character education are topics which have both ...

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: 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...