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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Studies of the content and process of environmental education.
(2002)
In order to examine the extent to which four-year institutions in the U.S. provide for the environmental education of students in nonenvironmental majors, and to identify various approaches to increasing environmental ...
A Study of Student Trust in Teachers in a Suburban School District
(2022-12-16)
The formations, differences, and effects of student trust were examined in a midsized suburban school district where a sample of 1086 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were surveyed. Four research questions guided ...
The relationship between developmentally appropriate practice and social behaviors of third-grade students.
(2001)
This study examined the relationship between the social behaviors of third grade students (N = 47) enrolled in 4 classrooms, and the developmentally appropriate practices demonstrated by their classroom teachers. Teachers ...
A teacher's perspective of the effectiveness of the Shurley Method of Language Arts Instruction.
(1998)
Research methods included observations of the language arts teacher in fifth-grade classrooms, interviews, and stimulated recall interviews. Administrators were also interviewed to assist in determining the context of the ...
Children's literacy perceptions as they authored with hypermedia.
(1999)
The first hypermedia project was based on one novel and the children authored in teams of two to create a stack-like presentation of their perceptions of the novel. The second project utilized an Internet web authoring to ...
Teaching with the data in mind: Using Oklahoma achievement test results to close the gap for No Child Left Behind.
(2004)
This qualitative study investigated successful practices of "highly effective" elementary teachers as they used Oklahoma State achievement test data to close the gap for all student subgroups in fulfilling the mandates of ...
Conceptual development and retention within the learning cycle.
(1998)
Qualitative analyses were used to examine how students' concept development is mediated by classroom discussions and the students' small cooperative learning group. It was discovered that there was a correlation between ...
Embodied knowing in teacher education: factors that lead to teacher agency
(2021-12-18)
The purpose of this paper is to develop an initial theory explaining why some teachers are able to learn (as evidenced by implementation or integration into their practice) good technique and good theory while others cannot. ...
Implementing integrated learning systems in elementary classrooms.
(1997)
The findings of the study provided evidence that teacher perceptions about an ILS influenced implementation of the ILS. Highest levels of concern for respondents were at the awareness stage and second highest levels of ...