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Teachers' Perceptions of Curricular Change
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of curricular change and how teachers in one high school in the southwestern United States viewed the potential effects of the implementation of Common Core ...
An Examination of the Genesis, Maintenance, and Manifestation of the Pedagogical Beliefs of a Novel Instructor - A Case Study
(2018-12-14)
The great preponderance of research in undergraduate mathematics, especially as it pertains to students transitioning into post-secondary education, tends to problematize the student or the difference in the educational ...
Use of the Target Language in Beginning Japanese
(2019-05)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how two Japanese teachers used the target language (Japanese) and students’ first language (English) in a college-level, beginning Japanese course. Although the ACTFL (American ...
UNDERSTANDING THE MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF TEACHERS WHO CHANGE SCHOOLS
(2019-05)
Teacher attrition is a challenge that has plagued our public school system for nearly a century. While attrition rates have consistently risen over the past 30 years, the cost of teacher turnover has moved beyond finances, ...
College in the High School: An Alternative Remediation Model
(2018-12)
Students entering post-secondary education in the United States are required to enroll in remedial mathematics courses at alarming rates (Chen, 2016), and only 1 in 4 complete these required courses that act as “gatekeeper” ...
SPEAKING OURSELVES INTO BEING: CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation presents a critical ethnographic study of four Afrocentric Artists/Educators on their journey toward cultural identity recovery. A problem many marginalized groups face is identity conflict related to ...
An Observational Case Study of One Third Grade Teacher's Taught Social and Emotional Skills Curriculum
(2013)
The development of social and emotional (SE) skills: self-awareness, self-management, decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness, can enhance school engagement and reduce relational aggression (CASEL, 2007). ...
Teachers' Lived Experiences Within and Beyond the 2016 Oklahoma Writing Project Summer Institute
(2017-05)
Many classroom teachers often consider professional development to be ineffective and irrelevant, noting little to no benefits for themselves or their students. Research on traditional, top-down professional development ...
THE ANALYSIS OF SELF-EFFICACY FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A CALCULUS I COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(2015-12-18)
It is generally accepted that learning implies a multitude of factors meant to prepare the children for life and its challenges. Some of these factors are directly related to the level of knowledge of subject matter, but ...
Students' Perspectives and Applications of Their Writing Instruction as Illustrated through Portraiture
(2019-05-10)
This study explores the communication experiences of the researcher's former students through Portraiture. The researcher collects a journal, past writing assignments, conducts an interview with the participants and one ...