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In recent years, touch screens and digital technologies have permeated all aspects of our lives and increasing numbers of children engage with those devices and digital media every day. Children age 8 or younger use tablets and digital...
Purpose. This study focused on factors that contributed to writing quality in adults who were pursuing a General Educational Development (GED) diploma through an adult basic education program and university students who were pursuing a...
Yearly, millions of children are diagnosed with mental health conditions. However, as the need for age-appropriate interventions and mental health services increases, the amount of available and accessible resources for families has...
School Is Always Hard. With the Covid Stuff, It's Just Hard in a Different Way: Voices of African American, Male Teenage Students during a Global Pandemic
This dissertation utilized a reflective narrative inquiry to document the authentic, lived educational experiences of African American, male, ninth grade students who navigated their middle school years during the COVID-19 global...
Today's students will face issues and problems that are global scale and require a collaborative global effort to resolve effectively. To help prepare students to resolve these global issues, students must learn to participate in the...
Students come to college with expectations that their experiences will help them secure a career after graduation (Eagan et al., 2016; Stolzenberg et al., 2020). Institutions offer work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences, which...
Teacher and School Time: Its Use as a Resource to Be Allocated, Teacher and Administrator Perceptions, and Perceptions of How It Has Been Influenced by Test-Based Accountability
This dissertation examines the complexity involved in teachers’ perceptions and experience of time on school-related activities. The Intensification Theory explains that test-based accountability has caused a time crunch for teachers, ...
15 Years Later: Familiarity with Self-Determination and the Instructional Practices Used in Supporting Development of Self-Determination in Students by Teachers of Students with Visual Impairment
Despite legislation being consistently passed to support post-secondary outcomes for students with disabilities, year after year since the completion of The National Longitudinal Transition Studies, national employment statistics...
Investigating Theories of the Testing Effect: Assessing the Underlying Assumptions and Mechanisms of the Episodic Context Theory and the Dual Memory Model
When compared to restudy, a practice test results in greater final test recall, a phenomenon known as the testing effect, and has been replicated across hundreds of experiments (Rowland, 2014; Adesope et al., 2017); however, consistent...
Previous research suggests that the intensity of student engagement in the learning process is a consistent predictor of language achievement (Gardner, 2010; Masgoret & Gardner, 2003). Research from educational psychology indicates that...
Scholars have advocated for more environmental education (EE) within elementary preservice teacher education through science methods courses as elementary preservice teachers have consistently demonstrated limited environmental literacy....
Mindsets have been gaining popularity recently in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). There have been studies exploring language mindsets in relation to emotions such as anxiety and fear of failure (e.g., Lou & Noels, 2017), ...
The dissertation stage, a time of independent research for doctoral students, is characterized by a lack of interactions with peers and faculty members, including the faculty dissertation advisor, that are typically present during...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of extended vocabulary instruction on the expressive vocabulary of two third-grade students with vocabulary deficits. According to the Common Core State Standards Initiative (n.d.), ...
Disaster response and emergency preparedness procedures are predicted through an in-depth and unique understanding of planning, mitigation, response, and recovery efforts. It is also contingent on both emergency responders and those...
As studies in sound continue to emerge in the field (Ceraso, 2018; Danforth, Stedman, & Faris, 2018; Hawk, 2018), this dissertation seeks to describe how and why writing instructors are using music in their college writing classrooms, ...
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