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WRITING A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF ONE NON-WRITER'S JOURNEY
(2010)
This qualitative study explores the experiences of a self-proclaimed non-writer as she seeks to understand and develop a style of writing. Research is included to support the ideas that teachers of writing should be writers ...
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 ...
The Making of a Thriving University-Based Reading Clinic: A Case Study
(2013)
In this case study, the researcher closely examined an active, university-based reading clinic. In particular, this study explored the experiences and perspectives of the stakeholders regarding the reading clinic. It ...
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; ...
Examining How QRIS Programs Ensure Quality, Access, and Availability of Services For All Young Children Including Those With Disabilities
(2015-07-30)
Nearly twenty years ago Oklahoma set the foundation for high-quality childcare in the state and across the country by creating the Reaching for the Stars program (STARs), a Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) ...
A Model for Developing and Assessing Community College Students' Conceptions of the Range, Interquartile Range, and Standard Deviation
(2011)
Traditional curricular materials and pedagogical strategies have not been effective in developing conceptual understanding of statistics topics and statistical reasoning abilities of students. Much of the changes proposed ...
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 ...
Using hermeneutic phenomenology to investigate pre-service secondary mathematics teachers' beliefs about mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics
(2013-11-25)
This research used an interpretive paradigm and a hermeneutic phenomenology methodology to investigate matehmatical belief systems of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers enrolled in a small private mid-western ...