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- Title
- (RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
- Author
- Iannone, Anthony
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
- Description
- As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...
- 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 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
- An Examination of Elementary Math Anxiety, Self Efficacy, and Academic Achievement
- Author
- McMillian, Kimberley
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- The study aims to explore the level of suburban 5th grade students’ mathematics self-efficacy, math anxiety, and academic achievement, to discover the possible interconnections between these parameters. The measures used to evaluate each included ...
- 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
- An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
- Author
- Ramadan, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...
- 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
- EFFECTS OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION ON ACQUISITION OF EARLY ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL VOCABULARY BY STUDENTS WITH AUTISM
- Author
- Patterson, Dawn
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Education in American schools is driven by the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) ensuring that educators provide students with disabilities a grade-aligned education. Recently, ...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM, STRUCTURED TEACHER TRAINING IN ACTIVE READING ON LANGUAGE AND READING OUTCOMES OF STUDENTS AT RISK AND NOT AT RISK FOR READING FAILURE, TEACHER IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVE READING, AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF READ ALOUD PRACTICES.
- Author
- Cleaver, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Elementary, Reading
- Description
- The current study evaluated the effects of short-term, structured teacher training in Active Reading on student outcomes in listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Active Reading is an approach to whole group read aloud tha...
- 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
- Education for Sustainable Development in Global Ready Schools: A Comparative Case Study
- Author
- Holshouser, Kaitlyn
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina’s Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliate...
- Title
- Effects of Tier 1 Enhancement Training on Teachers' Instructional Unit Accuracy
- Author
- Kretlow, Allison
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Early intervention models such as Response to Intervention have shown promise in reducing risk of academic failure (Bursuck et al., 2005; Foorman, Fletcher, Francis, & Schatschneider, 1998). General education teachers assume primary responsibility...
- Title
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Montessori Reading and Math Instruction for Third Grade African American Students in Urban Elementary Schools
- Author
- Brown, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Improving academic achievement for students of color has long been the subject of debate among advocates of education reform (Anyon, 2013; Breitborde & Swiniarski, 2006; Payne, 2008). Some scholars have advocated for the Montessori method as an al...
- 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
- Oral Reading Fluency and Maze Measures as Predictors of Performance on North Carolina End-of-Grade Assessment of Reading Comprehension
- Author
- Galloway, Tara
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Current legislation (IDEA, 2004; NCLB, 2001) mandates all students, including students with disabilities, demonstrate progress toward the same standards. However, students continue to struggle with attainment of statewide academic standards as mea...
- 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
- Social and Emotional Teaching Practices in Kindergarten through Second Grade Classrooms: A Multiple-Perspective Case Study of K-2 Educators
- Author
- Meinecke, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary, Early childhood education
- Description
- ABSTRACTASHLEY MEINECKE. Social and Emotional Teaching Practices in Kindergarten through Second Grade Classrooms: A Multiple-Perspective Case Study of K-2 Educators. (Under the direction of DR. AMY GOOD)Despite recurring arguments over the course ...
- 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 TEACHERS' ATTITUDES, BEHAVIORS, AND SKILLS ON CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY OF A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE IN AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM
- Author
- Long, Pamela
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- Today's students are more ethnically diverse than ever, but are taught by teachers who are a majority white. In response to this cultural mismatch, teachers are adopting innovative practices such as culturally responsive teaching. This qualitative...