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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...
"The principal of Woodrow Wilson Junior High School selected a tentative home room committee of teachers during the post school planning period. This group discussed the problem at hand, the purpose of the home room and the home room...
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...
"The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of an activity program which was started in Tomlin Junior High School during the 1949-50 term. It is not an analysis based on statistics, nor is it an attempt to present an ideal...
The purpose of this text is to bring together a series of historical/cultural/political strands which, when integrated, provide the raison d'etre of a teacher education program which maintained its identity and purpose since 1947. At...
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 study explores in-service elementary and secondary science teachers' conceptions of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry and the influence participation in two different Research Experience for Teacher (RET) had on these conceptions....
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 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...
During the past two decades, the United States has witnessed a constant growth in academic research about group piano at the collegiate level of education. This topic has been the focus of attention in piano pedagogy journals and...
Abstract: (Florida, Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Teachers, 2013) This thesis was designed to determine middle school teachers' perceptions of their state of readiness to enact the Common Core Standards in mathematics in the...
The purpose of this study was to observe time use and instructional focus in the middle school beginning band and advanced band settings. The analysis included the systematic recording of teacher behavior and student performance...
The aim of the present study was to complete a scoping review of current research on adolescent vocabulary intervention across settings in order to develop a nascent conceptual framework for oral and written, expressive and receptive...
Despite increasing attention given to STEM education in the United States, little focus is given on how adolescent African American females make sense of STEM education in a middle grades' context. Framed within the situated cognition...
The purpose of this study is to follow one teacher's evolution toward effective teaching. The autobiographical case study with self-reflective analysis follows the teacher's progress from his first experiences as a student through...
It is argued that teachers must experience inquiry in order to be able to translate it to their classrooms. The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Research Experiences for Teachers (RETs) offer promising programs, yet scant empirical...
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