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Critical Components of Exit Transition Services to Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities in Southwest Virginia
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Lee, Gerald Dale, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students with disabilities face the challenges of transitioning from secondary school to higher education with the added difficulties associated with specific physical, emotional, or learning disabilities. In this qualitative study, this researcher (a) observed practices that transition service professionals used during exit transition meetings…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Transitional Programs, Qualitative Research, High Schools
Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary Content Area Classrooms: Teacher Use of and Attitudes towards Reading Comprehension Instruction
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Ness, Molly K. – Reading Horizons, 2009
The purpose of this mixed methodology study was to identify the frequency of reading comprehension instruction in middle and high school social studies and science classrooms. An additional purpose was to explore teachers' perceptions of and beliefs about the need for reading comprehension instruction. In 2,400 minutes of direct classroom…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Teacher Attitudes
Supporting Secondary Readers: When Teachers Provide the "What," Not the "How"
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Ness, Molly K. – American Secondary Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore and understand the instructional strategies that middle and high school teachers used to support struggling readers. Data from 2,400 minutes of direct classroom observation and interviews of secondary content-area teachers revealed that explicit reading comprehension instruction was not a significant way in…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Observation, Heterogeneous Grouping