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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...
This sequential mixed methods study investigated how high school English teachers describe using blogs for their own professional development (PD), reflection, and classroom instruction using the National Council of Teacher of English ...
Examining the Sustainability of Research-Based Practices in Rural Elementary Schools after Program Funding Ends: A Case Study of Four First Grade Teachers
This paper describes a qualitative case study designed to investigate research-based practices as a contemporary phenomenon within the real-life context of schools. Selected first grade teacher perceptions of research based practices and...
In recent years, a considerable amount of research has been conducted to delineate the effects of attentional focus on task performance (e.g., Wulf, 2007a). From this research, external focus has been shown to be beneficial to both motor...
Over the last 30 years, college women's drinking has steadily increased from 6% to 49%. While colleges across the country have attempted to deal with alcohol-related issues by implementing a multitude of programs and policies, the data...
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...
The purpose of this collective case study was to examine the different musical, social, and pedagogical factors that affected how piano repertoire is selected and programmed for the undergraduate degree recital. Additionally, this study...
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...
The purpose of this study was to investigate high school music teachers' perceived influence of student enrollment in accelerated learning programs on student enrollment, participation, and attitude in band and choir. Participants (N =...
The purpose of this research was to examine the writing responses generated by students if they were provided with manipulatives which could potentially stimulate ideas for descriptive writing responses. The participants of the study...
The culture of elementary students today is vastly different than the culture of the previous generation of elementary students. Young students today are part of the "digital native" generation. They utilize technology, or interactive...
The study conducted in Dolphin County School District offers a comprehensive exploration of teacher beliefs among K-8 educators, specifically focusing on perspectives related to mathematics instruction. The findings reveal a diverse...
The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on the current state of several measurement issues pertaining to curriculum-based measures of reading (R-CBM1). We begin by providing an overview of the utility of R-CBM, followed by...
This study created a model to assess the general retirement literacy and level of intention to save for retirement of recent Millennial college students about to graduate from four-year public universities in the United States. The study...
The purpose of this study was to determine if a semester of study abroad influenced the development of global-mindedness among students enrolled in International Programs at Florida State University. The primary research question focused...
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...
An Explanatory Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Two State Level Correctional Institutions' Pre-Release Handbook Curriculum Designs, Looking Through the Lenses of Two Philosophical Orientations of Education.
The purpose of this study was to discover how Minnesota's Department of Corrections, Making a Successful Transition: Adult Pre-Release Handbook (2005), and Indiana's Department of Corrections, Pre-Release Re-Entry Program Offender...
Students need proficient literacy skills if they are to be successful in school and in life. Students typically master foundational literacy skills in the primary grades, and their abilities continue to develop throughout middle and high...
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10...
A multiple baseline design across participants was used to investigate the effects of reciprocal questioning strategy instruction delivered in cooperative pairs on the reading comprehension of children with autism spectrum disorder....
"The purpose of this study is to endeavor to discover the adequacy of vocational rehabilitation services rendered to mentally ill persons by analysing individual case folders of rehabilitated clients, and by making a group analysis of...
Asterisk* Comics seeks to provide visual and interactive tools through which young adults can develop their writing skills. The website's primary focus is to serve as a medium for instructional materials and to promote writing by...
The current study evaluated the Merit Scholars program of Bright Futures to determine its effect on student success in postsecondary education, particularly among African American students in the State of Florida by comparing high school...
The low quality of educational services in the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro is well documented (e.g., Abramo, 2003; Alves, Franco & Ribeiro, 2008; Cano, 2012; Cavallieri e Coelho, 2003; Frigotto, 2004; Henriques, 2000; Henrique &...
The authors report on major trends and emerging issues in state education policy-making. Two parts cover, first, the history, status, and future of educational governance and, second, the alternatives open to state leaders in structuring...
The Dynamics of Implementing Continuing Professional Education Legislation: A Case Study of the Vocational Rehabilitation Comprehensive System of Personnel Development
The state/federal Vocational Rehabilitation program assists eligible individuals with disabilities in entering or returning to employment. In 1998, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, was further amended to require vocational...
This dissertation focuses on the effectiveness of integrating communication technology, specifically the Internet, to enhance teaching practices. With the foundation of teacher as researcher, the teacher implemented this study under...
In the frontier days of America, the school and the community supplemented one another. Frontier life as simple and the requirements for existence on the frontier were, more often than not, a strong back rather than a strong mind. The...
The author has made this study of the actual receipts and expenditures in public education for Escambia County, Florida for two main reasons. First, to gain a clearer insight into the financing of education in this county, and to learn...
"It is the purpose of this paper to record some of the activities in Barwick High School during the first three years of participation in a Cooperative Study, to analyze the experience for values derived from the experience for possible...
African and Hispanic American businesses lag behind in the utilization of electronic commerce. As the global market expands, electronic commerce utilization will be important to the survival of these businesses. This research sought to...
The present study further informs theories of EI, resilience, and academic success in youth. A critical review of the literature on EI and resilience addressing the similarities between these constructs and the current state of the...
This mixed-methods study investigated the use of different types of instructional techniques as mediational tools for developing student vocabulary development and retention in the Japanese classroom. The experimental treatment, designed...
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...
In 2018 we continue to live in a divisive society, including divisions across racial and gender boundaries and among those with different sexual orientations. Athletes today, partially as a result of the pervasiveness of social media, ...
Mathematical thinking is in high demand in the global market, but compared to their international peers, U.S. school children fail to meet math performance benchmarks. This is especially problematic, given that early math skills predict...
This study attempted to investigate the effect of a shower intervention on mood following different kinds of distraction from daily activity, such as reading, exercising, or sitting quietly. The Profile of Mood States was used in a pre...
A Longitudinal Comparison of Vocational and Non-Vocational Education Students in Leon County Public Secondary Schools: A Study of May 1999 & May 2000 High School Graduates
The purpose of this study was to compare vocational and non-vocational education students in public secondary schools in Leon County, Florida, to see whether high school graduates who were in vocational education programs in their 9th...
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...
Elizabeth "Lisl" Urbantschitsch writes to Giulia Kortischoner overjoyed and excited to have received a letter from her. Lisl tells Giulia her plan to move to France for a year in order to save money and then fly over to the United States...
For this dissertation, four item purification procedures were implemented onto the generalized linear mixed model for differential item functioning (DIF) analysis, and the performance of these item purification procedures was...
This research linked educational psychology and mathematics education to investigate how a teacher used his knowledge of students in designing and implementing mathematical tasks related to piecewise function and composition of functions...
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...
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