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A CASE STUDY OF THE CATHOLIC COLLEGE EXPERIENCE FOR RURAL, FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS
(2021-05-16)<p>Research is needed on rural, first-generation college students and what supports them in attending and persisting at a private Catholic university. Specifically, this dissertation sought to understand participant ... -
A COMPARISON OF PROBLEM-SOLVING CONFIDENCE AND PROBLEM-SOLVING STYLES IN TRADITIONAL AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS
(2020-04-17)<p>For more than 100 years the United States has invested funds into public high schools and career technical centers to support youth workforce development, yet little research is represented in the literature on this ... -
A COMPARISON OF TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE LEADERSHIP STYLES OF MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL CLIMATE
(2008-05-01)<p>The purpose of the research study was to (a) determine how teachers’ perceptions of the leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and passive) of middle school principals and instructional leaders differed; ... -
A STUDY OF THE BARD COLLEGE WRITING MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN AN URBAN HIGH SCHOOL
(2009-05-01)<p>For over twenty years, Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) has been used to teach its incoming freshmen how to use writing as a tool to think more creatively and at a higher conceptual level. Bard ... -
AFRICAN AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR LEARNING, INSTRUCTIONAL, AND RELATIONAL EXPERIENCES
(2011-08-01)<p>This study was conducted to examine African American adolescents’ perceptions of their learning, instructional, and relational experiences to provide additional insight into how to eliminate the achievement gap. Research ... -
AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN AN URBAN HIGH SCHOOL
(2015-04-01)<p>The purpose of the study was to gain a deep understanding of the educational experiences and perceptions of junior and senior African American male secondary school students attending a diverse urban high school in the ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF AN EARLY INTERVENTION READING PROGRAM FOCUSING ON THE PROGRESS MONITORING OF LITERACY SKILLS AND THE READING SELF-CONCEPTS OF STRUGGLING READERS
(2010-05-01)<p>The purpose of this study was to examine progress monitoring, reading self-concept, and the literacy skills of first and second grade struggling readers. Progress monitoring is an instructional process used by teachers ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF ATTITUDES TOWARD MATHEMATICS IN STUDENT AND PARENT SELF-PERCEPTIONS
(2011-05-01)<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes toward mathematics of students in upper elementary school and middle school. Their perceptions were analyzed by grade level, gender, and in comparison to the attitudes ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF HOME, SCHOOL, AND COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES OF HIGH-ACHIEVING DEAF ADULTS
(2017-04-01)<p>This qualitative study investigated the academic, community, and family experiences of adults who are profoundly deaf. The deaf adults were categorized as high-achieving by having attended college post-high school. The ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTORS RELATED TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM TEACHERS' SELF-EFFICACY AND THE IMPACT OF SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS ON TEACHING OUTCOMES IN SCIENCE
(2012-05-01)<p>This study examined kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school teachers’ self-efficacy regarding classroom science teaching and then related these findings to the daily instructional methods that these teachers ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING SKILLS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN AN URBAN DISTRICT
(2012-05-01)<p>A growing body of evidence has suggested that the factors determining academic success are not limited to the cognitive realm alone. Students bring to the classroom their natural talents, as well as all of their previous ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT-DIRECTED AND TEACHER-DIRECTED INQUIRY LEARNING ON CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING, CRITICAL THINKING, AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
(2012-08-15)<p>In this quasi-experimental study, a convenience sample was selected from eighth grade social studies students. There were 28 students who participated in the Student-Directed Inquiry group utilizing problem-based service ... -
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES FOR HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN TRADITIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL SPANISH
(2008-05-01)<p>The national increase of Latinos has resulted in an increase in students who speak Spanish. The major topic in this study was the instructional practices used by Middle School Languages Other Than English (LOTE) Spanish ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND UNDERACHIEVEMENT
(2014-08-01)<p>This study investigated high school students’ and teachers’ perceptions of academic self-perception, environmental perceptions, goal valuation, and motivation/self-regulation as factors affecting students’ academic ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS’ PHILOSOPHY AND PERCEPTIONS ARE INTERRELATED TO THE ACTUAL PRACTICE OF PLAY IN THEIR CLASSROOMS
(2012-05-01)<p>Children have a right to a childhood as well as an education that respects and supports their learning and growth in developmentally appropriate ways. One way to ensure that education is deve<strong>l</strong>opmentally ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF TEACHER AND ADMINISTRATOR PERCEPTIONS OF BLENDED LEARNING: IMPLEMENTATION, STUDENT LEARNING, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(2016-05-01)<p>Blended learning is an instructional approach to teaching that has been part of the education field for several years. While the concept of blended learning has been around for many years, a common definition of this ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE STUDENTS’ LONG TERM APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY SKILLS
(2015-05-08)<p>Schools today are commissioned to provide students with a solid foundation in global citizenship. Future leaders must be knowledgeable problem solvers who can apply those skills to better the world. An awareness of ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF A FACULTY MENTOR PROGRAM AS RELATED TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES, AFFILIATION, AND SELF-EFFICACY
(2009-05-01)<p>Faculty mentor programs and other types of student advisory programs are a popular topic among educational leaders today. What drives their popularity is the need to personalize students’ learning experiences, a particular ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING STYLES OF FIFTH GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR MUSIC COMPOSITION PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS
(2010-05-01)<p>This researcher sought to investigate the relationship between perceptual learning modalities of fifth grade elementary school students and their compositional processes and products. Music composition, at the elementary ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE STUDENT USE OF TACTUAL LEARNING-STYLE PREFERENCE TECHNIQUES AND STUDENT SELF-PERCEPTION
(2015-05-01)<p>Students across the United States are routinely administered state assessments to measure academic progress in the grade level they have been assigned. These tests have become the measure of a district or school's ability ...
