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Emerging voices of undergraduate writers: A study of the phenomenon of writing changes during the college years.
(2007)
College faculty can support the growth of undergraduate writers by establishing a learning community focused on learning as motivation. Conferences that provide specific, concrete suggestions, as well as leading questions, ...
Hope in education: A dialogue with educators.
(2007)
Contemporary educators (and students) continue to struggle within challenging social, political and educational contexts of power and conformity that often result in despair. Historically, humans have responded to despair ...
Employed, rural high school seniors, mandatory attendance, and senior English: A phenomenological exploration.
(2007)
This phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of seven employed high school seniors to explore the research question: How do rural, employed high school seniors approach learning in English, their only required ...
Joy, passion and tenacity: A phenomenological study of why quality teachers continue to teach in high-challenge urban elementary schools .
(2007)
Over the last decade, research into the importance of teacher quality has shown that the quality of the teacher in the classroom plays a very important role in student achievement. (Bembry, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson & Mendro, ...
Rethinking professional development concerning comprehension strategy instruction.
(2007)
The focus of this mixed methods study was to determine if one form of professional development was more effective than another in promoting teacher change in incorporating comprehension strategies to support students ...
A case study of the adoption of a technology-based innovation in an urban school district: An e-portfolio initiative.
(2007)
The study also provides several recommendations for further research. Recommendations include the expansion of several demographic and/or contextual data points in an effort to provide rich narrative of the environment ...
Taiwanese teachers' beliefs about student self-determination: Implications for multicultural education.
(2007)
A critical ethnographic methodology based on constructive epistemological assumptions was used to investigate the perspectives of five Taiwanese teachers from different ethnic/language groups. Interview data were further ...
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 ...
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 ...