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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 ...
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 ...
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?"