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Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)
The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
(2014-12-12)
This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ...
At-risk high school students examine practices, obstacles, and action plans for democratic school reform.
(2002)
This study examines the perceptions of at-risk high school students to the application of the nine practices of the high achieving schools (O'Hair, 1999). The research method was qualitative naturalistic. Data sources ...
Voices of alternatively certified teachers: Factors that assisted in their achievement of longevity.
(2001)
Patterns were discovered that indicated that each of the teachers interviewed achieved longevity through the assistance of mentors and previous work-related experiences. Mentors included family members, colleagues and ...
Educators' attitudes toward the integration of electronic grading software into the classroom.
(2002)
This study focused on the secondary educator population of two school districts located in the southwestern region of the United States. The study developed and tested five research questions and hypotheses using the EATEGS ...
Perceptions of AIDS education issues: A qualitative study of at risk individuals.
(1998)
The research affirmed certain elements of current AIDS education theories and revealed areas which should be added to instructional methods and curriculum content. Significant patterns affecting the participants' behavior ...
Sexual harassment policies, training and perceptions of the problem in the educational setting: A survey of Oklahoma middle level public school principals, counselors and teachers.
(1999)
The researcher mailed a survey to 155 Oklahoma middle school principals, 188 middle school counselors and 160 middle school teachers. Largely a rural state, Oklahoma has a wide range of school district size, school size ...
High school students as stakeholders in school-wide decision making: Reality or rhetoric.
(1999)
This study examines one school culture in terms of information gathered from individual students and focus group interviews. The study attempts to answer a critical question: What is the scope of involvement for high school ...
Voices unheard: An interpretive study of in-school suspension.
(2003)
This research project challenges public school officials to examine existing punitive curricular programs so that the programs may be better aligned with program descriptions and goals or eliminated from the curriculum. ...