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Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: AN UNFULFILLED DREAM OF AN URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: A FAILED EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Author: Doyle, Kerri
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Curriculum planning, Educational sociology
Description: This research presents the qualitative case study of an urban community school initiative that began as an educational reform effort and that ultimately failed. The process of emergence for this school and factors leading to its collapse are descr...

Title: Adequacy Post- Rose v. Council for Better Education in Kentucky Public School Facilities: A Case Study
Author: Wilson, Caroline
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education--Finance, Law
Description: The decision in the 1989 landmark Kentucky case, Rose v. Council for Better Education, initiated many reforms to ensure that children have access to an adequate education, including funding new construction and renovations for school facilities. T...

Title: Character Education in Print: Content Analysis of Character Education in Introduction to Education Textbooks
Author: Protz, Babette
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Albert Einstein is credited with saying that the most important component of education is the development of students' character. While debate exists as to the delivery of character education in the public schools, it must be recognized that not a...

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: Effects of Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction on Solving Equations using Inverse Operations with High School Students with Mild Intellectual Disability
Author: Cease-Cook, Jennifer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education
Description: This study used a multiple probe across participants design to examine the effects of concrete-representational-abstract sequence of instruction on solving equations using inverse operations with high school students with mild intellectual disabil...

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: GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION: 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES FOR URBAN TEACHERS
Author: Menand, Howard
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: In the current knowledge economy, a connection exists between globalization and global macro policies and the micro level effect of these policies at the local classroom level. This study begins by establishing globalization's impact on education ...

Title: Latino Voices: A Qualitative Study of First Generation College Latino Males
Author: Brown, Gerald
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: A qualitative study design was used to describe the perceptions and beliefs about higher education of seven first generation college Latino male students enrolled in higher education in the Southeastern part of the U.S. The purpose of this investi...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL
Author: Finley, Lauren
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Professional learning communities
Description: ABSTRACTLAUREN L.FINLEY. Teacher perceptions regarding the implementation of the professional learning communities at the elementary school level. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT RICKELMAN) The purpose of this study was to describe elementary s...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

Title: Teacher Self-Efficacy and Student Learning: A Case Study of the Implementation of Common Core State Standards in Mathematics in a Parochial Middle School
Author: Mazze, Candace
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Education, Mathematics
Description: ABSTRACTCANDACE ELIZABETH MAZZE. Teacher self-efficacy and student learning: a case study of the implementation of Common Core State Standards in Mathematics in a parochial middle school (Under the direction of DR. COREY R. LOCK)In response to US ...

Title: WRITING TO UNDERSTAND, EXPLAIN, AND REFLECT: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A WRITERS' WORKSHOP MODEL IN A FOURTH-GRADE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Author: Martin, Christie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purposes of this study are to (1) understand how elementary school students use writing to reflect their learning and problem solving in mathematics; and (2) to explore how teachers adapt their instructional approaches based upon reflection on...