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Fostering a Social and Cultural Literacy Classroom through an Administrator-Teacher Relationship
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Khary Fletcher – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the social and cultural instructional process on independent reading. In addition, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the administrator-teacher relationship on educational practices in a lab site classroom. Using an action research design, data was collected through…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Grade 9, English Teachers, Teacher Researchers
The Quantification of the Concept of Engagement in Physical Education
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Stringfellow, Andy F., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the first study was to develop and validate a new self-report survey used to determine the level of agentic, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement of eighth and ninth grade boys and girls in physical education. Much of the development was driven by work completed by Reeve and Tseng (2011), and by Reeve (2013). Two hundred…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Learner Engagement, Factor Analysis, Grade 8
Co-Teacher Perceptions of Lesson Planning in the Online Scripted Math Curriculum Inclusion Classroom
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Pollock, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative single case embedded exploratory case study was to investigate high school inclusion co-teachers' perceptions of the shared planning process when developing lesson plans for "Agile Mind" (2015) and to determine how teachers work to do this within the constructs of the online scripted curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
The Impact of Using Technology on Student Achievement: Teaching Functions with the TI-Nspire to 9th Grade Algebra Students
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Buckner, Barbara Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of TI-Nspire graphing calculator use on student achievement and on teacher behavior variables of planning, teaching, and assessing. This study investigated the teaching of functions by teachers using the TI-Nspire graphing calculator versus teachers using a non-graphing scientific calculator. …
Descriptors: Video Technology, Control Groups, Teacher Behavior, Lesson Plans
A Formative Evaluation of Components of Mississippi's 21st Century Redesign Initiative for Grades 7, 8, and 9
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Boone, Adriane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This applied dissertation was designed to provide a formative evaluation of junior high and high school curriculum reform as part of a state initiated pilot program in a rural school district in southwest Mississippi. The purpose of the program was to address and respond to the 8th-grade technology literacy requirements of the No Child Left Behind…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Federal Legislation, Dropout Rate
Investigating Science Discourse in a High School Science Classroom
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Swanson, Lauren Honeycutt – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Science classrooms in the United States have become more diverse with respect to the variety of languages spoken by students. This qualitative study used ethnographic methods to investigate the discourse and practices of two ninth grade science classrooms. Approximately 44% of students included in the study were designated as English learners. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Feedback (Response), Assignments, Class Activities