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The past three decades have witnessed a rapid growth in the number of international teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. colleges and universities. Since the early 1980s, the dominant line of ITA research has focused on ITAs’ instructional...
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...
This study used contemporary children's literature as a vehicle for exploring students' understanding of sensitive issues as reflected in interactions during book discussions and written work. Research has shown that ". . . children's...
There have been recent pushes for more active learning in mathematics classrooms, especially at the undergraduate level. To incorporate more active learning, there is a need for tasks that explicitly support this type of instruction, ...
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...
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...
Every year we join in on the celebration of high school students all over the country graduating and preparing for the next phase of their adult life, whether starting their careers or entering college. Some students who choose to...
The recent reforms in science education envision engaging students in authentic practices of science and habits of mind (NRC, 2012); in other words, engaging students in doing science. Science is a multidimensional endeavor (Davidson, ...
Reading comprehension is an essential skill for success in school and post-school life. However, despite the importance of this skill, a considerable number of students in the U.S. have shown difficulties in reading comprehension....
Evolutionary theory is considered by many to be an important cornerstone to the entire discipline to biology. Despite its recognized importance by biologists, public understanding of evolution is considered to be woefully lacking. There...
Contributing Factors of Second Language Pronunciation Goals: The Influence of Second Language Testing, Speaking Goals, and Speaking Beliefs of English Language Learners at Intensive English Programs
Before entering American university graduate programs, many international students must attend Intensive English Programs (IEPs) to improve their English proficiency (Redden, 2018). Their English proficiency is tested via the Test of...
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...
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...
The number of children living in poverty in the United States rose 14.4% from 2019 to 2020 (U.S. Census Bureau). In Florida, nearly one out of every four children live at or below the poverty threshold Koball and Jaing (2018). The...
National recommendations for undergraduate biology education call for orchestrating opportunities for students to "figure out" scientific explanations in the classroom setting by engaging in similar disciplinary practices and discourses...
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...
In two studies, I explored the relationships among regulatory focus and L2 self-guides (which are qualitative differences in motivation), L2 oral task emotions, and L2 oral performance. In Study 1, 133 second-year high school students in...
This study used data collected for the Individualizing Student Instruction (ISI) randomized control field trial to examine the nature and variability of writing instruction in third grade classrooms. Writing instruction was coded from...
Federal and state mandates require all high school students to select a high school major area of interest. This includes students with disabilities, regardless of the type of diploma they are seeking or what is being taught in the...
The current prevalence of childhood obesity is becoming a critical social problem and cannot be solved effectively by any single solution. An underlying problem of interventions trying to prevent childhood obesity neglects children's own...
Environmentally conscious science education is of great importance due to dramatic anthropogenic effects on the environment. The World Health Organization reports 25% of children deaths, ages five and under, are the direct result of...
This study examined kindergarten teachers’ developmentally appropriate beliefs, developmentally appropriate practices, and their opinions about the current state of the kindergarten curriculum through the lens of teachers’ beliefs. A...
The Relations Among Degrees of Economic Advantage, Reform Oriented Mathematics Principles, and Fourth-Grade Public School Student Mathematics Achievement
This quantitative study examined the mathematics achievement gap between students who were economically disadvantaged and economically advantaged. The influence of instructional practices aligned with reform-oriented mathematics...
To address the need for reform in undergraduate science education a new instructional model called Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) was developed and then implemented in a undergraduate chemistry course at a community college in the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate what pre-service teachers focus on when reflecting on their mathematics instruction with the use of video clubs. Video clubs are groups where teachers meet and watch videos of their lessons...
Teachers' interactions with children represent an important source of influence in children's learning and development. Classroom organization, or the way the teacher manages the physical and behavioral aspects of the classroom...
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores the relationship between six pre-service teachers' attitudes and beliefs about writing, writing instruction, and responding to student writing, and the strategies they chose to employ in providing...
Reading and Vocabulary Value-Added Scores and Literacy Teaching Quality Investigating the Relationship Between 2nd Grade Teachers' Value-Added Scores and Teaching Quality
Teacher quality has emerged as a key factor influencing the success of students, both academically, and beyond. The national discussion of teacher quality focuses on determining which teachers are effective and how best to determine...
This study explores the critical issue of teacher preparation in university-based English education programs in the state of Florida. Numerous training programs and certification avenues currently exist in response to the growing...
Much research has been conducted about the philosophy and mathematical writings of René Descartes, but that which focuses on pedagogy does so in a holistic manner. The present study uses a systematic approach to identify pedagogical...
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of international-student English language learners (ELLs), situated on a language learning plateau (L2P), who have been exposed to a Growth Mindset Pedagogy with Deliberate Practice....
Teacher learning has become a topic of increasing interest in the field of second language teacher education, while the development of L2 teacher identity has been viewed as a central process and practice in language teachers’...
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a six-week parent education video program followed by reflective writing on maternal efficacy and examine the components of mothers' reflective writings. The study was guided by a...
My goal in this study was to investigate the role of primary source projects (PSPs) on instructor growth regarding the post-secondary mathematics teaching. A PSP is a curricular material that aims to guide students reading of primary...
This quasi-experimental, concurrent mixed methods study investigated whether less-proficient readers in seventh-grade language arts classes using the Reading VITALS supplemental curricular intervention exhibited improved reading...
This research addressed the early reading instruction of students with cognitive impairments included in general education kindergarten classrooms. Research from 2002 to 2011 on early reading instruction for students with mental...
This study examined how preservice English Language Arts teachers learn to teach and use their knowledge of content, pedagogy, and technology during an English education course focused on technology. Seeking to address a gap in the...
This study focuses on how instructors at the English Language Institute, ELI, at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, perceive the programs of professional development programs and how do they perceive those programs' value on their...
Although many investigations suggest that reading for understanding specifically in the narrative text is difficult for children with ASD, research on how to effectively teach skills associated with reading comprehension is limited and...
This multiple probe across participants design evaluated the effectiveness of teaching early number sense skills (ENS) to young children (age 4) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using Number Talks with supports. Following...
African Americans have suffered many negative consequences as a result of racism. African Americans are currently underperforming their White counterparts in the field of Mathematics. Several examples have indicated that the appropriate...
Second language (L2) researchers have investigated the role of language learners’ motivation in relation to the learners’ L2 self-guides (e.g., Dörnyei, 2009; Papi, Bondarenko, Mansouri, Feng, Jiang, 2019a) and their feedback-seeking...
This study examined the transgenerational relationship between the prevalence of maternal childhood traumas for justice-involved adolescent mothers and her baby's social and emotional risk by the age of 24 months. Two separate variables...
High-quality school based learning practices are believed to have lasting effects on young children’s achievement. These practices include early mathematics instruction that now extend to promoting geometric and spatial sense in young...
The Relationship Between Early Childhood Teachers' Credentials and Beliefs About Child-Rearing and Young Children's Social Development in Preschool Settings
This investigation examined the relationship between teachers' credentials and teachers' child-rearing beliefs and preschoolers' social development at Jordan/ Amman private preschool settings. The participants were 946 (474 boys and 474...
Some second language acquisition (SLA) scholars have characterized the astronomic rise in usership of language learning applications as a “revolution” of language learning (p. 25). Alongside this rise in usership is also a small but...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend the literature base for teaching students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) mathematics and self-determination skills using an evidence-based practice called modified...
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the research on Black students in higher education situated in the foreign language context and understanding low enrollment of Black students in foreign language courses. This study...
This study examined the impact of different types of text on student achievement in elementary school science. Gender was also examined to see if the type of text passage read had any differential effect on boys' and girls' achievement....
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