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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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
This study originally proposed a multitreatment (ABACAC) study design. This design was altered to an ABAB reversal design when both participants showed an increase in correct responding to science comprehension questions when just visual...
The aim of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to examine differences in teachers’ perceptions of cooperative learning and factors influencing their implementation in the classroom. In order to assess teacher perceptions and...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect, among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. The purpose of this dissertation study was to examine dialect use in various language contexts and to...
Impact of Explicit Phonological Awareness Instruction on Spelling Knowledge, Orthographic Processing Skills, and Reading Speed and Accuracy of Adult Arab ESL Learners
ABSTRACT This quantitative study investigated potential effects of providing explicit phonological instruction on international students' spelling knowledge, orthographic processing skills, and reading speed and comprehension. In...
The importance of early literacy has been supported by research for many years. Children that are English language learners are at particular risk for literacy difficulties. Phonemic awareness, particularly segmentation and blending, is...
This thesis explores how well the curriculum Great Explorations in Math and Science Space Science Curriculum Sequence (GEMS SSCS) for 3rd through 5th graders helps mainstream and nonmainstream students develop an informed level of...
Stability of Special Education Eligibility from Kindergarten to Third Grade: Are There Variables from Fall of Kindergarten That Predict Later Classification Status?
This study examined students' movement in and out of special education and predictors for later special education placement. The sample (N = 556) came from a response to intervention (RTI) study, specifically, a cluster-randomized...
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....
This study examined the relationship between fathers' engagement patterns and children's cognitive development in early childhood. The study specifically examined fathers' home engagement patterns based on their engagement in caregiving, ...
The ever-changing composition of early childhood classrooms brings many challenges as well as chances for teachers to be more responsive to the needs of children from different backgrounds. In order to better prepare early childhood...
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between Turkish preservice early childhood teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their mentor teachers’ mentoring. The study also examined related factors including the mentor...
Learning to read has been a critically important topic in scholastic, academic, and governmental discussion for many decades. Literacy, considered to be the backbone of successful nations, has demonstrated an imperative role in the...
ABSTRACT Service-learning is a pedagogy that challenges students to create important connections between curricular content and their community. Experts in the field of early childhood education enthusiastically support learning...
Undergraduate science education continues to develop new ways of improving the teaching and learning of science. This study describes the efforts of four science faculty members involved in developing and teaching an innovative sequence...
This study fulfils one cycle of design research that seeks to build a didactical model for the instruction of prime numbers and related mathematical ideas in accordance with the theoretical principles of Realistic Mathematics Education....
The personal literacy experiences English Language Arts (ELA) teachers have are an important factor in shaping their pedagogical thinking about literacy. More research is needed, however, on the relationship between literacy experiences...
This thesis presents and examines the relation of word reading to reading comprehension in first and second grades. The relationship between these two skills is explored and an examination of the discrepancy between these skills among...
During the past few decades, there have been significant social changes affecting children and their families. Fathers are assuming a more active role in child rearing, primarily as a result of increases in the numbers of women in the...
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to observe if students' levels of Mathematics Self-Efficacy (MSE) had any effect on how they used resources available to them through an academic intervention and retention program. The...
Annually, about 3.5 million Americans of all ages, ethnicities, and professions experience homelessness (National Coalition for the Homeless [NCH], 2009c). About one-third of the total homeless population is comprised of families, and...
The purpose of this study was to explore the development of second graders' spelling knowledge across the academic year using a researcher developed, word-dictated spelling test administered in fall, winter, and spring of second grade....
The aim of this study was to explore the foreign language reading anxiety among learners of Chinese in colleges in the United States. Early studies on foreign language anxiety had an obvious focus on the language skill of speaking (e.g., ...
Children with visual impairments have unique learning needs because visual impairment impacts a child's ability to learn incidentally though observation (Lowenfeld, 1952, 1973). Literature suggests children with visual impairments do not...
This qualitative study was designed to investigate Puerto Rican Family involvement in the orientation and mobility training of their children with visual impairments. The study examined various aspects of parental participation, namely...
Research investigating the causal effect of cross language transfer of phonological awareness is limited. Using a randomized control trial, this study examined the causal effect of cross-language transfer of phonological awareness using...
Community colleges are increasingly becoming a popular alternative for the first two years of a bachelor's degree. The purpose of the typical American community college is to meet the needs of the community by providing open door access...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of linguistic knowledge in spelling by analyzing spelling errors made by 220 students in the fourth, fifth, and seventh grades. A 25-word researcher-designed spelling test with...
In order to answer in what ways the teaching of reading in Portuguese at an English-Portuguese Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program is supportive of the home language and minority culture in a biliterate community during the very...
DDisciplinary literacy theory has become a prominent subfield in literacy education and research, and, as a result, policy and education reform have called for teachers to expand their literacy instruction from a sole emphasis on generic...
ESOL Endorsed Teacher Candidates' Undergraduate Academic Performance as a Possible Predictor for Their ESOL Performance on the Professional Education (PEd) Test within the Context of Florida
This quantitative research study investigated the ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) academic performance of teacher candidates (n=632) at a large educational institution in Florida, USA, who majored in Elementary Education, ...
This study explored secondary English Language Arts teachers' experiences using digital technologies in their classrooms, as presented in two key journals in the English Education field: the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL...
The Next Generation Science Standards present an integrated approach to science and engineering education in which science is foundational to engineering and engineering contextualizes and reinforces science ideas. The research presented...
The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of the delivery method of teacher feedback on elementary students' writings upon the writing self-efficacy and dispositions of young students. The participants in the study were...
This study was designed to investigate preservice teachers' beliefs and attitudes about teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students. The investigation was designed to analyze the effects on this population of acquiring...
This study investigates the nature of interactions among native and nonnative speakers of English. The research design is qualitative and uses a microgenetic analysis approach to study collaborative dialogue. The research questions focus...
The study investigates the effect of the sound system of Turkish on Turkish adult speakers' English pronunciation of words that also exist in Turkish as loanwords from Indo-European language. More specifically, it examines the sounds...
Researchers in the field agree that there is too little research on the experience of immigrant children and their families in the ECE arena (Adair & Tobin, 2007; Brandon, 2002). Furthermore, despite the presence of Japanese immigrants...
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