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DIALOGICAL APPROACHES TO ENHANCING DISCUSSION, WRITING, AND THINKING IN A RURAL UNIVERSITY
(2017-05)
This action research self study explored how dialogic instruction influenced 21 freshman composition students’ quality of discussion, writing practices, and ability to critical think and reflect on their learning. The study ...
Oklahoma Teachers' Perceptions of the Qualitative Portion of the Teacher Evaluation System
(2017-05-13)
This quantitative study explores teacher evaluation from a teachers’ perspective through an organizational lens. Political reforms such as Race to the Top has ignited state reforms within the teacher evaluation framework. ...
Effecting Change on the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy of Preservice Elementary Teachers
(2017-05)
This sequential mixed methods case study was conducted in a mathematics class in a Midwestern university to determine whether exposure to constructivist mathematics teaching would influence change in the mathematics teaching ...
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF A CRITICAL CURRICULUM ON STUDENT UNDERSTANDING
(2017-05-13)
Like many within the profession, my own beliefs and practices have been impacted by personal and professional struggles and experiences (Palmer, 2007), as well as the historical influences of physical education (Kirk, 1986; ...
CHARACTERISTICS OF HEAD START TEACHING TEAMS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH CLASSROOM QUALITY AND CHILD OUTCOMES
(2017-12)
The primary objectives of the present study were to describe the characteristics of Head Start teaching teams, investigate perceptions of teamwork and explore how these characteristics and perceptions associate with classroom ...
SPEAKING OURSELVES INTO BEING: CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation presents a critical ethnographic study of four Afrocentric Artists/Educators on their journey toward cultural identity recovery. A problem many marginalized groups face is identity conflict related to ...
Teachers' Lived Experiences Within and Beyond the 2016 Oklahoma Writing Project Summer Institute
(2017-05)
Many classroom teachers often consider professional development to be ineffective and irrelevant, noting little to no benefits for themselves or their students. Research on traditional, top-down professional development ...
Learning from Student Perceptions: A Dialogical Approach to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
(2017-05)
As the culture gap between public school students and teachers has continued to grow in the past decade, culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) emerged as a theoretical guide to support classroom practices. Despite support for ...
WHAT EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE TEACHERS DO: A CASE STUDY OF 5 HIGH-ACHIEVING UNIVERSITY SPANISH INSTRUCTORS
(2017-05)
The quality of instruction in foreign language classes can be widely variable. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to uncover the approaches to instruction enacted by five high-achieving university Spanish ...
MAKING MEANING OF ALGEBRA 2 TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL
(2017-12-16)
As the variety of curriculum materials available to teachers multiplies, understandings of the process by which mathematics teachers make meaning of curriculum materials must be revisited and revised. Rather than beginning ...