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Holocaust Education and the Student Perspective: Toward a Grounded Theory of Student Engagment in Social Studies Education
(2010)
Too often students perceive history as boring with no relevance to their lives; however, this does not seem to be the case with one aspect of social studies education - Holocaust studies. Why do students choose to study ...
WRITING A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF ONE NON-WRITER'S JOURNEY
(2010)
This qualitative study explores the experiences of a self-proclaimed non-writer as she seeks to understand and develop a style of writing. Research is included to support the ideas that teachers of writing should be writers ...
Invisible Minority: Military-Connected Adolescents in Secondary Schools
(2018-12-14)
Military families and military-connected children are a vital source of support – the backbone for soldiers fighting in our armed forces. There are currently four million military-connected children in the U.S. and 80% of ...
Oklahoma Teachers' Perceptions of the Qualitative Portion of the Teacher Evaluation System
(2017-05-13)
This quantitative study explores teacher evaluation from a teachers’ perspective through an organizational lens. Political reforms such as Race to the Top has ignited state reforms within the teacher evaluation framework. ...
Effecting Change on the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy of Preservice Elementary Teachers
(2017-05)
This sequential mixed methods case study was conducted in a mathematics class in a Midwestern university to determine whether exposure to constructivist mathematics teaching would influence change in the mathematics teaching ...
The Making of a Thriving University-Based Reading Clinic: A Case Study
(2013)
In this case study, the researcher closely examined an active, university-based reading clinic. In particular, this study explored the experiences and perspectives of the stakeholders regarding the reading clinic. It ...
MEANING MAKING THROUGH NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES IN MULTILINGUAL WRITING
(2019-05-10)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain an understanding of the perceptions of multilingual writing from monolingual and multilingual instructors teaching First-year Composition (FYC) as well as international ...
THE DECISION TO TEACH IN AN ERA OF DECLINING ENROLLMENTS IN TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS
(2019-05)
In America, declining enrollments in teacher education programs pose a problem for the future of education. Some studies (Barry & Shields, 2017; Westervelt, 2015) suggest high-stakes testing and top-down education reforms ...
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF A CRITICAL CURRICULUM ON STUDENT UNDERSTANDING
(2017-05-13)
Like many within the profession, my own beliefs and practices have been impacted by personal and professional struggles and experiences (Palmer, 2007), as well as the historical influences of physical education (Kirk, 1986; ...
Three-Dimensional Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Understanding Science Learning in the Next Generation of Science Education
(2018-08-02)
This study focused on examining the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of teachers focused on transitioning to phenomena-driven, three-dimensional Learning as outlined in A Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) ...