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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 ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
The [Integrated] Art of Teaching: Early Career Teachers' Perceptions of Integrated Arts Practices and their Creative Self-Efficacy
(2019-05-10)
From teacher preparation programs, preservice and novice teachers understand the expectations and their responsibility to prepare secondary students for tests required for postsecondary opportunities. But often forgotten ...
Peer tutoring and at-risk students: The effects of peer tutoring on attendance rates, misbehavior in school, and academic progress for students identified as at risk for dropping out of high school.
(2000)
When at-risk students who participated in a six-week tutoring project were compared to at risk students who did not participate as a tutor, significant differences were found in academic performance in math class and on ...
At-risk high school students examine practices, obstacles, and action plans for democratic school reform.
(2002)
This study examines the perceptions of at-risk high school students to the application of the nine practices of the high achieving schools (O'Hair, 1999). The research method was qualitative naturalistic. Data sources ...
Using Young Adult Literature as the Cornerstone of Literacy: Pairing Young Adult Novels with the Classics
(2016-05-13)
English classes are still relying on novels taught consistently since the eighties if not earlier. Though our students have changed drastically since that time, our teaching methods and texts have not. And now, only 20% ...
Perceptions of AIDS education issues: A qualitative study of at risk individuals.
(1998)
The research affirmed certain elements of current AIDS education theories and revealed areas which should be added to instructional methods and curriculum content. Significant patterns affecting the participants' behavior ...
Learning strategies, cognitive strategies, and process variables used by high school students in social studies classes.
(2003)
This grounded theory study sought to understand how tenth grade public school students in average and advanced classes used strategies for learning material in their high school social studies classes. This study sought ...
An analysis of stage theory related to beginning social studies teachers: Research on professional development.
(1998)
With the consideration of the purpose and goals of this study, a qualitative research paradigm, with emphasis on using constant comparative analysis, was applied in this investigation. Data that were gathered in this ...