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- Title
- A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IN HIGH SCHOOL COMMERCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMS
- Author
- Vintinner, Jean
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading, Education, Secondary
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to analyze the teachers' manuals of the leading commercial high school reading programs to determine the extent to which they provide effective vocabulary instruction as advocated by the leading professional organizat...
- 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
- EFFECTS OF THE SOLVE STRATEGY ON THE MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Author
- Freeman, Shaqwana
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Mathematics, Education, Secondary
- Description
- Students with learning disabilities are most typically characterized as struggling readers (i.e., 80-90% of students are identified on the basis of reading failure; LD OnLine, 2008 Lerner, 1989; Lyon, Fletcher, Shaywitz, Torgesen, Wood, et al., 20...
- Title
- EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
- Author
- Graham, David
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...
- Title
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
- Author
- Fisher, Molly
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
- Description
- There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...
- Title
- The effects of students' profile, communication, and discourse in an advanced placement statistics classroom
- Author
- Royster, Norma
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning, Education, Secondary
- Description
- This study sought to describe the communicative aspect that should be part of any secondary mathematics classroom and, more specifically, the statistics classroom. Focusing on the observation of students allowed for a detailed account of the learn...
- Title
- USES OF ARGUMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS CLASSROOM: MEDIATING STUDENT GENERALIZATION WITHIN RIEMANN SUMS AND INTEGRATION
- Author
- Bumgardner, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
- Description
- Many of the struggles students face in postsecondary mathematics courses arise from their rote memorization of mathematical concepts, rather than having developed a relational understanding of these concepts. A relational understanding of mathemat...