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Are we speaking the same language: Exploring meaning construction in a first-year composition classroom.
(1997)
Data revealed that disjunctions occurred between the teacher's intentions for making the assignments and the students interpretations of the assignments on some level with all three essays. Data analysis also indicated ...
Daniel Boone Wilderness Therapeutic Camping Program: A retrospective study of beliefs, attitudes, and values of selected innovators and change agents.
(1997)
The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the beliefs, attitudes, and values of a select group of innovators and change agents who participated in one therapeutic camping and experiential educational program ...
Teaching what we know: Perspectives on the teaching practices and writing habits of freshman composition instructors.
(1998)
I found that each participant defined the word "writer" in a different way. They also established individual criteria for whether they were writers; for example, the participant who wrote prolifically did not consider ...
Teaching with a questioning mind: An analysis of the development of a teacher research group into a discourse community.
(1999)
Data analysis suggested that RRWPTRG's collective identity as a teacher research group was rooted in prior overlapping settings that constrained the group's development of an overriding motive and the purposeful activities, ...
A study on the effects of situated cognition on the study of foreign language.
(1997)
This study examined situated cognition and anchored instruction in the context of foreign language learning. Based upon situated learning models proposed by McLellan (1996) and Thurman (1993), a situated lesson was adapted ...
Multiple intelligences. N characters in search for a solution: An approach for a personal and social heuristic.
(1999)
In phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1984) if consciousness perceives value to sane approach in addressing problems (the phenomena arising through the participants, use of the heuristic coincide with participants' beliefs they ...
Voluntary consolidation in rural Oklahoma schools: A descriptive study of the strategies that facilitate the process.
(1997)
Data analysis was performed following Holsti's (1969) four-step procedure for content analysis. The four steps include: (1) selecting a sample of data, (2) selecting content categories, (3) comparing the categories, and ...
School improvement: An analysis of facilitating practices for central office administrators to support decentralized change in public school districts implementing the (I)(D)(E)(A) School Improvement Process.
(1997)
This study examined the perceptions of public school superintendents, central office administrators, principals, and teachers to determine the importance of central office administrator facilitating practices reported in ...
An investigation of instructional systems design practice via esurvey methodology.
(1997)
An esurvey was designed to be implemented via the Internet and targeted toward a large, heterogeneous population of Instructional Designers and developers from educational, corporate, government, and technical environments. ...
Foundations of Afrocentric thought and practice and its implications as an alternative educational philosophy for African American individual and community empowerment.
(1999)
Afrocentricism stems from a total attempt by African Americans to define themselves based on their own value system and their interpretation of reality in which they find themselves without Eurocentric interference, ...