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How teachers understand their experiences with holistic, arts-infused education: An interpretation of metaphors
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of the study was to interpret how teachers understood and assigned meaning to their experiences and those of their students when they enthusiastically participated in a holistic, ...
Oklahoma's Early Childhood National Board Certified Teachers' views of No Child Left Behind, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and story within the curriculum
(2009-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This was a mixed methods study to determine how Oklahoma's Early Childhood NBCTs view the connections between NCLB, NBPTS and story. An online survey was sent to all of Oklahoma's Early Childhood ...
Differences in students' perceived classroom experiences by instructor gender, student gender, and persistence in STEM courses
(2014-12)
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are growing and have lucrative job opportunities for college graduates. However, the number of students in STEM majors and the number of those who persist in ...
African American parents' and college students' perceptions of their role as decision makers in the special education process
(2015-05)
For this narrative study, ten participants shared their experiences about special education and the special education K-12 decision-making process through one-to-one semi-structured interviews. An initial set of open-ended ...
Muslim/Arab women in America: A study of conflictual encounters between traditionalism and feminism
(2006-07)
Scope and Method of Study:
Structural relationships among employee participation, socio-moral climate, engagement, and civic attitudes in a police context
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Little is known about the degree of employee participation in organizational decision-making that currently exists in American policing or what the linkages may be to other workforce variables. ...
Poverty as a curriculum topic in Christian schools
(2014-05)
The purpose of Christian education is to incorporate Biblical values in the curriculum, and one essential message in the Bible is to reach out and liberate the poor. Through interviews, writing protocols, a focus group ...
Teachers' questioning techniques and students' critical thinking skills: English language classroom in the Thai context
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Using cognitive learning theory by Bloom (1956) and Wu's (1993) taxonomy of questioning techniques
Teacher that Jack built: The construction of teacher subjects in an early field experience course
(2006-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Increased standardization of teacher education program urges a reconsideration of how pre-service teacher identities are constructed/being constructed. The purpose of my study was to examine the ...