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Language Epiphany and Flow Theory: A Phenomenological Study of Successful Language Learners’ Perspective on Their Language Experience
(2015-05-08)
This qualitative research is a phenomenological study of successful language learners’ perspectives on their language experiences. It looks at different particularities among successful language learners and extract possible ...
WHAT STRATEGIES DO RESISTIVE READERS USE TO FAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH SCHOOL ASSIGNED TEXTS?
(2012)
A trend among adolescent readers is the practice of fake-reading. Fake-reading occurs when students who can read choose not to, and develop strategies to fake their way through school-assigned texts to earn good grades. ...
WHAT GENDER CHARACTERISTICS, NORMS, AND ROLES MAY BE REPRESENTED IN THE THREE POPULAR YOUNG ADULT NOVEL BOOK SERIES HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT, AND HUNGER GAMES?
(2013-12)
This dissertation research project explores the areas of gender characteristics, norms, and roles as may be interpreted by young people through the reading of the three popular young adult book series Harry Potter, Twilight, ...
Relational Pedagogy in Higher Education
(2018)
The purpose of this study was to understand how caring teachers enact relational pedagogy in higher education. In this study, relational pedagogy was defined as the intentional practice of ...
Instructional Coaching in Education: The Metacognitive Process of Refining Past, Present, and Future Teaching Practices
(2014-08-15)
Abstract
Providing high quality on-site professional development opportunities for teachers to rethink teaching practices is growing through instructional coaching. However, little is known as to what components of ...
PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ THEORY TO PRACTICE OF INCLUSION WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
(2015-08)
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often included in the general education classroom requiring individualized inclusion strategies. This can result in challenges for both the general education teacher and ...
American Indian Persistence In STEM-Related Graduate Degree Programs
(2016-05-13)
Historically, American Indians (AI) continue to struggle to meet the same levels of educational success as their United States counterparts. Moreover, AIs are the least represented group earning a college degree in the ...
Instructional Decisions of English/ Language Arts Teachers and Their Reflections on Those Decisions
(2015)
In the current climate of national and state level educational reform, teachers navigate an endless barrage of new ideas, mandates, reforms, curriculum, standards, evaluations, and expectations. Regardless of reform efforts ...
NOT UPGRADED TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF A SHORT-TERM STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL
(2018-05-11)
International education has been evolving in the past decade, with short-term study abroad programs gradually growing to be the dominant type of program. With this growth comes the need to develop a concentrated and impactful ...
A Phenomenological Study of Rural, High Schools Students' Experiences in Cognitive Apprenticeship Methodology
(2018-05-11)
Presently the United States has a deficit of qualified STEM applicants and is relying on foreign students to relieve the shortfall. To relieve this deficit, members of underrepresented populations, such as women and ...