This qualitative, exploratory, single-case study explored multiple teachers' perception while engaging their students in a blended learning classroom at one urban elementary and one urban middle school to improve teaching and learning. Specifically, the study included an exploration of a teacher's use of face-to-face engagement of their students…

Adolescent literacy, or adolescents' ability to read, write, and communicate about the variety of texts they encounter in and out of school, has remained inordinately, and consistently, low for the past 20 years (NCES, 2010). Self-efficacy is a widely-used construct for measuring and predicting student achievement (Pajares, Johnson, & Usher,…

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine continuing education students' perceptions of adult education instructional practices at an urban community college. The continuing education students recently graduated from programs of law enforcement, truck driving, and health occupations. Perception analysis was based on the six principles…