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A Summative Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Classroom-Embedded, Individualistic, Computer-Based Learning for Middle School Students Placed at Academic Risk in Schools with a High Proportion of Title I Eligible Students
(2011)
The purpose of this post hoc, summative evaluation was to evaluate the effectiveness of classroom-embedded, individualistic, computer-based learning for middle school students placed at academic risk in schools with a high ...
Leadership Effectiveness During Implementation of Reader Intervention at Elementary Schools in Oklahoma
(2011)
The magnitude of students attending schools today that demonstrate reading difficulty in the earliest of years continues to grow throughout the United States. Compelling research indicates that children who get off to a ...
The Academic-Athletic Divide in NCAA Division II: A Phenomenological Study of Intercollegiate Athletics Directors' Experiences
(2011)
Intercollegiate athletics has promoted the capacity to develop personal growth and development within participants for over a century but at times is littered with scandal and abuse on campuses (Thelin, 1996). Public ...
Exploring Cognitive Processes of Teachers in the Open-Ended Learning Environment
(2011)
This study explores professional learning of teachers in a web-based Open-Ended Learning Environment (OELE). Adult learning theorists suggest that adults are self-directed, experience-based, personally- and socially-related, ...
Parent Social Networks and Parent Responsibility
(2011)
Despite benefits of family involvement for student achievement, family-school partnerships are difficult to initiate and sustain in ways that actually promote student learning in high poverty communities. Schools may be ...
Changing lives through short-term study abroad: A transformative experience?
(2011)
The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to increase the knowledge base of
IMPACTS OF HOMICIDE AND DEATH PENALTY EXPERIENCES: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH
(2011)
There exists a culture of surviving victims who possess a body of knowledge stemming from their experiences of dealing with homicide. In reviewing the literature on surviving victims, whether they are survivors of the ...
THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE THEORY: A CASE STUDY OF TEACHERS' RESPONSES TO STUDENTS' CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS
(2011)
The aims of social justice in education are defined and procedurally mandated in tenets of special education law. The history of special education services is replete with examples of underrepresentation and overrepresentation ...