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Jelderks, Christopher Jeffery – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Understanding the merits and demerits of new technology and how it may or may not work within traditional pedagogical methods is important. This study, therefore, examined the effects of traditional versus digital peer-editing to understand how digital peer-editing affects student writing achievement in a rural public middle school environment. It…
Descriptors: Editing, Collaborative Writing, Writing Achievement, Electronic Publishing
Murphy, Hope Helene – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to advance educators' understanding of the role of teachers' culture on students' discipline. A key issue in education is disproportionate disciplinary representation of Black male students for cultural behaviors. National and Commonwealth of Virginia discipline data indicate that Black male students are most…
Descriptors: Teacher Background, Teacher Attitudes, Racial Bias, Misconceptions
Ikeda, Miyako – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study identifies the major characteristics of "effective" primary schools in isolated areas in Vietnam. It suggests areas in which the implementation of beneficial changes can occur. Pupils in isolated areas of Vietnam are, in many respects, educationally disadvantaged. Usually, these pupils are in schools that have fewer…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality