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WHAT GENDER CHARACTERISTICS, NORMS, AND ROLES MAY BE REPRESENTED IN THE THREE POPULAR YOUNG ADULT NOVEL BOOK SERIES HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT, AND HUNGER GAMES?
(2013-12)
This dissertation research project explores the areas of gender characteristics, norms, and roles as may be interpreted by young people through the reading of the three popular young adult book series Harry Potter, Twilight, ...
Instructional Coaching in Education: The Metacognitive Process of Refining Past, Present, and Future Teaching Practices
(2014-08-15)
Abstract
Providing high quality on-site professional development opportunities for teachers to rethink teaching practices is growing through instructional coaching. However, little is known as to what components of ...
PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ THEORY TO PRACTICE OF INCLUSION WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
(2015-08)
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are often included in the general education classroom requiring individualized inclusion strategies. This can result in challenges for both the general education teacher and ...
American Indian Persistence In STEM-Related Graduate Degree Programs
(2016-05-13)
Historically, American Indians (AI) continue to struggle to meet the same levels of educational success as their United States counterparts. Moreover, AIs are the least represented group earning a college degree in the ...
Instructional Decisions of English/ Language Arts Teachers and Their Reflections on Those Decisions
(2015)
In the current climate of national and state level educational reform, teachers navigate an endless barrage of new ideas, mandates, reforms, curriculum, standards, evaluations, and expectations. Regardless of reform efforts ...
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 ...
EXPLORING AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS, ATTITUDES, AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF SCIENTISTS AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
(2011)
The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the perceptions, attitudes, and misconceptions (PAM) that high school American Indian (AI) students possess about scientists and the nature of science. AI is the least ...
Engineers' Self-Perceptions And A Strategy For Fostering Authentic Images of Engineers And Scientists Among Elementary School Students
(2013)
Over a decade since Finson’s 2002 review article, “Drawing a Scientist: What We Do and Do Not Know After Fifty Years of Drawings”, images of scientists, sometimes stereotypes, continue to be created and promoted in popular ...
I Too, Have a Race: The Autoethnographic Journey of a Teacher Confronting Herself and Social Justice in the College Composition Classroom
(2011)
This study addresses the research question "How might an autoethnographic exploration of my own perceived Whiteness inform how I approach the phenomenon of racism in my teaching of university composition students?"
Holocaust Education and the Student Perspective: Toward a Grounded Theory of Student Engagment in Social Studies Education
(2010)
Too often students perceive history as boring with no relevance to their lives; however, this does not seem to be the case with one aspect of social studies education - Holocaust studies. Why do students choose to study ...