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“ME NO MORE COME”: PERSISTENCE AND QUITTING AMONG ADULT SPANISH-SPEAKING ENGLISH LEARNERS
(2018-08)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore what makes adult Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) stay or drop out of English class in a non-profit English literacy center in a city in a southwestern state ...
WHY USE STUDENT-CENTERED TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION? A STUDY OF ONE TEACHER’S CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES
(2018-05-11)
Modern educational practices have fostered relationships that place instructors and teachers as the experts or central authorities regarding academic knowledge, academic disciplines, and teacher-student relationships, ...
Relational Pedagogy in Higher Education
(2018)
The purpose of this study was to understand how caring teachers enact relational pedagogy in higher education. In this study, relational pedagogy was defined as the intentional practice of ...
NOT UPGRADED TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF A SHORT-TERM STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL
(2018-05-11)
International education has been evolving in the past decade, with short-term study abroad programs gradually growing to be the dominant type of program. With this growth comes the need to develop a concentrated and impactful ...
A Phenomenological Study of Rural, High Schools Students' Experiences in Cognitive Apprenticeship Methodology
(2018-05-11)
Presently the United States has a deficit of qualified STEM applicants and is relying on foreign students to relieve the shortfall. To relieve this deficit, members of underrepresented populations, such as women and ...
Invisible Minority: Military-Connected Adolescents in Secondary Schools
(2018-12-14)
Military families and military-connected children are a vital source of support – the backbone for soldiers fighting in our armed forces. There are currently four million military-connected children in the U.S. and 80% of ...
Three-Dimensional Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Understanding Science Learning in the Next Generation of Science Education
(2018-08-02)
This study focused on examining the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of teachers focused on transitioning to phenomena-driven, three-dimensional Learning as outlined in A Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) ...
An Examination of the Genesis, Maintenance, and Manifestation of the Pedagogical Beliefs of a Novel Instructor - A Case Study
(2018-12-14)
The great preponderance of research in undergraduate mathematics, especially as it pertains to students transitioning into post-secondary education, tends to problematize the student or the difference in the educational ...
College in the High School: An Alternative Remediation Model
(2018-12)
Students entering post-secondary education in the United States are required to enroll in remedial mathematics courses at alarming rates (Chen, 2016), and only 1 in 4 complete these required courses that act as “gatekeeper” ...
RELATIONSHIP OF HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIORS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN FIRST YEAR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AND DENTAL STUDENTS
(2018-05-11)
Background: Individual coping and stress management skills influence rates of burnout, substance abuse, and other untoward situations for medical professionals. Ideally, underdeveloped coping mechanisms and at-risk behaviors ...