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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 ...
A different digital divide: A mixed-method exploration of teacher and student use of hyperlinked multimedia in teaching and learning.
(2007)
The survey consisted of 48 items clustered around the six themes. Teachers were recruited from two southwestern urban districts. Ten teachers and their classes completed the surveys. The class average for each student group ...
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, ...
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 ...
Are our children reading proficiently and how would we know? An examination of state and national elementary reading assessments.
(2007)
The states were divided into groups by performance levels based on the difference in the proportion of students scoring at proficient levels and above between their state and the NAEP 2005 fourth grade reading assessments ...
A study comparing student achievement in a full-service school and a non-full-service school.
(2007)
Student achievement indicators in the two schools were compared. The schools were similar in enrollment, community type, percent low-income students, and percent minority students. Data gathered from the schools was retrieved ...
7th grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan.
(2007)
This dissertation study investigated seventh-grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan. The mix-method triangulation research design was employed to find answers to the study's questions. A total of 247 seventh-grade ...
A mixed methods study of the teaching of social studies concepts in elementary classrooms.
(2007)
This study questions the accepted belief that social studies is not being taught in regular elementary education classrooms. That belief is based on time studies and a body of research that looks at curriculum and teacher ...