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“You just can't save them all”: understanding mathematics teachers’ teaching self-efficacy development through the lens of attribution beliefs
(2021-11-09)
The purpose of this study was to explore how mathematics teachers in urban schools serving disadvantaged communities develop their teaching self-efficacy and how teachers’ attribution beliefs were related to their ...
The effect of intermittent forgetting upon learning and productivity within production systems.
(2000)
This dissertation addresses the effects of intermittent forgetting upon the learning and industrial production process. This work can apply to any process in which learning must occur and may re-occur at a later point in ...
Students' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.
(1997)
Results revealed that Academic Self-Concept was the most influential and predictive of GPA. Cognitive Appraisal Strategies and Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors had strong influences on Academic Self-Concept. Furthermore, ...
The application of music history and music theory in keyboard study to facilitate the development of beginning stages of critical thinking.
(1997)
Each weekly session was video-taped. Written observations by the researcher were organized under these headings: amount of dialogue between the researcher and student, the student's interest in the workbook activities, ...
Cultural identification and academic achievement: Validation of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure and its use in understanding motivational characteristics of oppositional, racelessness and primary cultural identification.
(2006)
The present study presents evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure (CLAM). The CCAM consist of three subscales representing three cultural dimensions of African ...
Effects of concretely illustrated instruction versus abstractly illustrated instruction on acquisition of abstract concepts.
(2000)
The participants in this study are junior and senior students enrolled in an undergraduate introductory instructional development course at a southwestern university. Students in the class were equally divided by visual ...
An exploration of processes used in case analysis by pre-service teacher education students in a media and technology course.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to examine the processes used in case analysis by preservice teachers in a media and technology course. Four aspects of case analysis were examined: (a) how students process information in ...
Knowledge structures and problem representation for multiple concurrent and potential problems.
(1997)
To investigate the research questions posed by this study, a novice/expert comparison design was used. The problem solving domain of interest was home health care nursing, with five newly licensed RNs participating as ...
Assessing conceptual ecologies.
(1998)
The participants of this study developed diagrams and repertory grid matrices that assessed their perceptions of the relationships between concepts related to "research". The diagrams and matrices suggested a level of ...
Patterns of analytical thinking and knowledge use in students' early understanding of the limit concept.
(1999)
This study explored first-semester calculus students' early understanding of limits, relative to their function knowledge and graphing calculator use. The purpose was to identify and describe students' patterns of analytical ...