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Abram Estrada – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how end-of-course general education teachers in public high schools (grades 9-12) described cognitive fatigue during the preparation and implementation of standardized testing practices in a Texas urban public school district. Prior to this study, it was not known how Texas public…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Public Schools, High School Teachers, Fatigue (Biology)
Isaiah Lawan Cromwell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to address the lack of student engagement at Northeast High school by addressing the following research questions: (1) What are the current student engagement levels at Northeast High School? and (2) How can the level of student engagement at Northeast High School be improved? For this study, student engagement…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement, Barriers
Cereghini, Christina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This mixed methods study investigates the effect of cultural and sociolinguistic textures of talk on authentic discussion patterns and whether reading comprehension and inferencing are affected in an online booktalk environment with adolescents. The research will also investigate the contextual features of the classroom community to be studied to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Communication, Sociolinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Safwa Abdul-Aziz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students struggle with decoding and implementing feedback given to them on writing assignments. Researchers and instructors have used various technologies and strategies to improve students' uptake of feedback given on written assignments, one of which is a form of video feedback called screencasting. Research has been conducted on students'…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Secondary School Teachers
Cuevas, Joshua A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research sought to add to a body of knowledge that is severely underrepresented in the scientific literature, reading comprehension in secondary students. Chapter 1 examines the current state of literacy in the nation's public schools and the consequences that arise if students leave high school with inadequate reading skills. It discusses…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Textbooks
Strebel Halpern, Carine S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The explicit teaching of reading comprehension strategies has been proposed as a means to better prepare secondary school-aged students for today's information-dense, fast-paced, fast-changing global society, and to improve the academic performance of struggling adolescent readers. This proposition of a direct and positive impact of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests, Standardized Tests