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Title: Factors Affecting Grades: An Examination of North Carolina School Performance Grades
Author: Dangerfield-Persky, Felicia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: This quantitative study explores the potential school-level and school district-level factors associated with North Carolina school performance grades in K-5 elementary schools. The desire was to examine if any of the school- or school district-le...

Title: ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
Author: Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...

Title: EFFECTS OF HIGH-PROBABILITY REQUEST SEQUENCES ON COMPLIANCE TO LOW-PROBABILITY REQUESTS FOR A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
Author: Fisher, Larry
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: Using a reversal design, the current study evaluated the effects of the high-probability request sequence (HPRS) on the compliance to low-probability requests for a high school student with a moderate intellectual disability. The participant was g...

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: 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: 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: A Descriptive Study of Elementary Mathematically Promising Student Interactions With Cognitively Demanding Math Tasks
Author: Lewis, Wendy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Gifted children--Education
Description: National mathematics achievement results show that elementary students in the United States are not increasing in cognitive ability or critical thinking skills (NAEP, 2020). For this increase, mathematically promising students require more opportu...

Title: “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
Author: Norwood, Jessica
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...

Title: Exploring the Effects of a Daily Audio-Guided Mindfulness Intervention for Teachers
Author: Parsons, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Teachers are experiencing high levels of stress resulting in higher attrition rates that are impacting student achievement and placing considerable burdens on schools. The practice of mindfulness in the classroom may be a way to help teachers cope...

Title: An analysis of administrative spending across education organizational forms
Author: Prieto, Tatia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: This study compared administrative expenditures among 542 traditional school districts and 258 charter schools in Michigan, exploring whether one organizational model might better minimize administrative spending. A non-experimental correlational ...

Title: Effects of Multilevel Support on First-Grade Teachers' Use of Research-Based Strategies During Beginning Reading Instruction
Author: Schnorr, Crystalyn
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of multilevel support on first-grade teachers' accurate use of research-based strategies during beginning reading instruction and the extent to which teachers maintained use of these strategies....

Title: Factors Related to the Use of Play Therapy Among Elementary School Counselors
Author: Van Horne, Jill
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Early childhood education, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine variables that are related to elementary school counselors' use of play therapy in the elementary school setting. The specific variables explored were age, years of experience, workshop hours, graduate cour...

Title: Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics: A Phenomenological Case Study of Teachers Instructing Mathematically Gifted and Promising Students
Author: Weiss, Christine
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Gifted children--Education, Teachers--Training of
Description: ABSTRACTCHRISTINE H. WEISS. Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Conceptual Understanding of Mathematics: A Phenomenological Case Study of Teachers Instructing Mathematically Gifted and Promising Students. (Under the direction of DR. DREW POLLY)Student...