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EXPLORING AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES, AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF SCIENTISTS AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
(2011)
The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the perceptions, attitudes, and misconceptions (PAM) that high school American Indian (AI) students possess about scientists and the nature of science. AI is the least ...
Engineers' Self-Perceptions And A Strategy For Fostering Authentic Images of Engineers And Scientists Among Elementary School Students
(2013)
Over a decade since Finson’s 2002 review article, “Drawing a Scientist: What We Do and Do Not Know After Fifty Years of Drawings”, images of scientists, sometimes stereotypes, continue to be created and promoted in popular ...
I Too, Have a Race: The Autoethnographic Journey of a Teacher Confronting Herself and Social Justice in the College Composition Classroom
(2011)
This study addresses the research question "How might an autoethnographic exploration of my own perceived Whiteness inform how I approach the phenomenon of racism in my teaching of university composition students?"
Ella Baker and the SNCC: Grassroots leadership and political activism in a nonhierarchical organization.
(2007)
In SNCC, both men and women worked side by side in rural America. Some of SNCC's successes were due to the work of the large number of Black and White women in the organization. The study describes how SNCC promoted the ...
The adolescent's sense of being literate: Reshaping through classroom transitions.
(2007)
The study revealed that the students' sense of being literate was reshaped. The majority of the students described themselves as better readers and even more so as writers. Relationships and goal setting played key roles ...
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 ...
An examination of the effect of teacher read-aloud on adolescent attitudes and learning in science.
(2007)
A repeated measures analysis suggested both teacher read-aloud and silent reading were appropriate for student learning but results do not support either method as superior over the other. Multiple regression analyses were ...
A comparison of traditional and reform styles in teaching applied calculus.
(1998)
This study compared the use of reform methods in the teaching of applied calculus at a large comprehensive public university during the Spring 1997 semester. Fifty-nine students, mostly freshmen and sophomores enrolled in ...