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This research joins the gender equity conversation within science education by providing a feminist poststructural analysis of teachers' doing gender and teaching science. Feminist poststructuralism is used in recognition of the...
This study examined ways in which a simultaneously bilingual child increased her productive communicative ability in her weaker language through interaction in pretend play with more capable peers. Resting in the framework of Vygotskian...
Korean Elementary ESOL Students' English Language Anxiety and Defense Mechanism in the ESOL and Mainstream Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications for TESOL
With the purpose to filling in the gap of the previous research, which paid little attention to the language anxiety of young children, this study has examined the dynamics of language anxiety with a main focus on young Korean elementary...
This thesis uses a qualitative action research design involving developmental mathematics students at a community college. The students are first generation, low income, and they are enrolled in developmental mathematics. The heart of...
I conducted a follow-up, qualitative evaluation to help me understand how participation in a contextual science research course influenced two pre-service science and/or mathematics teacher participants as they begin to teach in their...
The main aim of this study was to examine the nature of literary discussions in an advanced level English literature class in a Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language)setting. The focus of the study was the discursive features of a...
From 1999 through 2004, the mathematics department at Research University experimented with using a reform text, Hughes-Hallett et al.'s Calculus, to teach the undergraduate calculus sequence. A historical qualitative analysis was...
Much research, including that by Koreans (e.g., Yoon & Kim, 1999; Mo, 1999), agrees on two major points relating to the inequitable and unequal condition of women in the scientific community: 1) the fact that the under-representation of...
The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of output in the context of instruction on developing second language (L2) pragmatic competence. The study focused on the ways in which opportunities for output...
This action-research study was designed to determine the impact of the interactive electronic whiteboard in middle school mathematics. The researcher taught two seventh grade mathematics classes during a unit on transformations. The...
This qualitative case study evaluated an instructor's practices and decision making in the online course, Seminar in Teaching Geometry. The focus of the data analysis was to understand and evaluate the instructor's decisions as they were...
This research study was conducted to explore the development of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) in preservice teachers as they participated in microteaching lesson study (MLS). Participants were six preservice teachers...
Teacher educators are tasked with defining and assessing the learning of pre-service teachers. These seemingly straightforward tasks are complicated by the varied definitions of teacher learning and lack of consensus regarding the most...
The goal of this study was to describe the factors that influence education for sustainable development (ESD) in American universities. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) was employed as the theoretical lens to analyze the...
Inquiry has been one of the most prominent terms of the contemporary science education reform movement (Buck, Latta, & Leslie-Pelecky, 2007; Colburn, 2006; Settlage, 2007). Practicing classroom inquiry has maintained its central position...
The purpose of this research was to examine and attempt to influence the problem solving processes used by typical undergraduate mathematics students. A structured problem solving methodology designed to foster a heuristic way of...
Literacy emerges as a key concept in English language arts classrooms and in education in general. The components of literacy important to classroom instruction come under continuous political fire as schools, classrooms, and society...
This teacher action research study, conducted during a semester-long student teaching experience, examined the effectiveness of the author's implementation of a recurring strategy, which stood out as a unique way to encourage students to...
Recently, there has been a growing interest in research on students' use of multiple representations in mathematics education. This study focused on how and achievement affect students' use of multiple representations. The methodology...
Understanding science teachers' beliefs is important for science teacher educators, because such understanding is a prerequisite for promoting change within the framework of educational reform. The worldview model developed by Graves ...
The principles underlying this qualitative study were to use technology as a resource to provide new opportunities for students to engage in the process of learning science through inquiry, and to engage in action research on my teaching...
This dissertation research consisted of the development, implementation and assessment of a community environmental education outreach initiative in support of a lake restoration project in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. This study focused...
This study examined willingness to communicate (WTC) of language learners who were studying English as a foreign language in a Chinese college setting by adapting variables from four theoretical sources: McCroskey and Richmond's (1987)...
Creating a scientifically literate society appears to be the major goal of recent science education reform efforts (Abd-El-Khalick, Boujaoude, Dushl, Lederman, Hofstein, Niaz, Tregust, & Tuan, 2004). Recent national reports in the U.S, ...
The objectives of this study were a) to describe how the use of an on-line assessment tool is employed in an 8th grade urban science classroom, b) to investigate how use of this technological tool fits within the discursive practices...
Understanding the Challenges to the Implementation of Assessment Reform in Science Classrooms: A Case Study of Science Teachers' Conceptions and Practices of Assessment
The purpose of this study is to understand the professional and structural, political and cultural factors that present challenges to the implementation of assessment reform in science classrooms. An analysis of recent science education...
This inquiry used reflective autobiographical research to reveal my beliefs, values, and practices of science teaching by using participatory action research with two African- American students of my science tutoring organization, ...
Kagisano or Social Harmony is a very important national philosophy for Botswana, mainly because the society of Botswana is characterized by ethnic diversity. Kagisano is viewed as essential for maintaining stability in such an ethnically...
The epidemic of African American and Latino students' lack of success in mathematics has been puzzling researchers (Gutstein, Lipman, Hernandez, and de los Reyes, 1997; Ladson-Billings, 1991, 1995, 2000) in the field of mathematics...
The purpose of this study is to determine this teacher's progress towards effectiveness in teaching. Three different perspectives are used to establish whether there has been a change towards teaching effectiveness. The first perspective...
A primary conflict regarding the identity of science education is the competition between those emphasizing science aspects of science education versus those who emphasize the education. I examine a National Science Foundation funded...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in Romania from the perspective of the influence of the global and local contexts on education. To characterize the EFL curriculum reform...
An Exploration of Jordanian English Language Teachers' Attitudes, Skills, and Access as Indicator of Information and Communication Technology Integration in Jordan
This study explored factors that may influence the attitudes towards information and communication technology (ICT) by Jordanian teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study replicated research with extension by Albirini ...
This study examined whether knowledge of English fosters reproduction of inequitable social structures in the Republic of Panama. Two hundred coeducational students taking English-medium undergraduate courses or noncredit English-as-a...
This qualitative study analyzes the effects of an Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics course upon a student typically not permitted to take such a class. The researcher examined students enrolled in AP Statistics at a high school in North...
This dissertation is an interpretivist study that focused on the professional development of three African American science teachers from a small rural school district, Carver School District (a pseudonym), in the southeastern United...
This action research study was focused on how two middle school science teachers at the American International School in Israel (AIS-I) addressed strategies to develop projects in which their students could learn at a distance but not...
The Purpose in this study was to understand the specific beliefs that are held by two high school teachers about gender differences in mathematics education, and the extent of consistency between these teachers' stated beliefs about...
National reports such as National Science Foundation's highlight women's disproportionate distribution and differential treatment in the science, mathematics, and engineering (SM&E) fields, in both education and the workforce in the US....
This thesis is a study of a group of Lebanese writers who initiated the Arab immigrant literary tradition in America in the early 20th Century and established themselves as key figures in the history of modern Arabic literature. Kahlil...
The current study examined two prospective secondary mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of the concept of functions as they completed a function questionnaire, card sorting activity, analysis...
This study investigates middle school educators' perspectives of how the implementation of FCAT Science, a state-mandated, comprehensive science test, has affected their teaching practices and their feelings of professionalism. It also...
This study examines the effectiveness of the author's implementation of a unit on poetry in a class of 12th grade Advanced Placement (AP) Literature and Composition. Situated in the educational dilemmas of assessment and accountability...
Understanding of College Chemistry Instructor's Beliefs on Teaching Chemistry and Influences on Students' Learning and Their Meaning Making in a General Chemistry Class
This study explored a college level chemistry teacher's beliefs of teaching science and her multiple teaching strategies that she used to enhance her students' general chemistry learning in an undergraduate introductory chemistry class....
Investigating Expertise: A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Curricular Framework within the Subject-Matter Preparation, in Literature, of Secondary English Teacher Candidates
Using a mixed methods approach, the researcher examined the phenomenon of subject-matter preparation within the curricular framework of secondary English teacher programs by examining program structure, literature coursework, and teacher...
A threaded discussion forum has been used in fully online or blended courses at institutions of higher education in the United States. However, how advanced adult ESL learners interact with peers collaboratively to complete assigned...
The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the social identity of language minority students in the secondary U.S. schools through the lens of critical theory (Freire, 2000; Pennycook, 2001) and post structuralism ...
This study examines the determinants of earnings and gender wage differentials for Florida's IT graduates and IT workers by using the Mincerian regression model and the Blinder-Oaxaca wage decomposition model. Florida Education and...
The Manifestation of Critical Thinking and Metacognition in Secondary American History Students Through the Implementation of Lesson Plans and Activities Consistent with Historical Thinking Skills
The intent of this study was to determine the effect teaching students to think "historically" in high school American history had on their metacognitive skills and ability to think critically. According to many researchers, encouraging...
This purpose of this study was to assess the development of teachers' conceptual understanding about inquiry in a professional development program designed to provide scientific research experiences as a means for increasing the practice...
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