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Alvarez, Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Young students' genre knowledge and learning have been of interest to literacy researchers for some time. How students learn and recognize genres, how they deploy them, how they learn the circumstances under which to deploy particular genres are key concerns for literacy educators and researchers. While the field of Composition Studies has long…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Writing (Composition)
Davidson, Yonaton Sahar – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Recent research supports the benefit of students' construction of relevance through writing about the connection of content to their life. However, most such research defines relevance narrowly as utility value--perceived instrumentality of the content to the student's career goals. Furthermore, the scope of phenomenological and conceptual…
Descriptors: Biology, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Phenomenology
Flynn, Gayle L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative research study, applying aspects of van Manen's framework for hermeneutic phenomenological research, was conducted to investigate the narratives of relationally aggressive girls of color. The study focused on nine adolescent girls of color who were ages 14-17 years old and exhibited aggressive/bullying behaviors representing the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Aggression, Interpersonal Relationship
Krieger, Courtney M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A trend among adolescent readers is the practice of fake-reading. Fake-reading occurs when students who can read choose not to, and develop strategies to fake their way through school-assigned texts to earn good grades. This study examines four resistive readers, or fake-readers, assigned to read Neal Shusterman's "Unwind" (2007)…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Reading, Reading Assignments, Deception
Stoll, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The "college readiness" movement of the past decade coupled with the widespread adoption of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has generated pressure on content area teachers to develop disciplinary thinking skills while also providing more opportunities for student writing. The purpose of this three-article dissertation is to understand…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Intellectual Disciplines
Songkhao, Rujira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the writing results from an existing data set of 36 students who performed braille writing dictation through the repeated writing activity in the braille writing app. The data was the writing results of students between the first and the sixth grade levels. Results were categorized into types of errors, the most common…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Braille, Writing Assignments
Maxlow, James Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study investigated the potential development and use of historical empathy in sixth-grade students while using the colonial-era historical education game "Mission US" and its associated learning activities. A collective case study was developed to describe and interpret students' experiences. The gathered data included the students'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, History Instruction, Empathy
Gomes da Silva, Mirella – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Computer-mediated collaborative writing has drawn attention from second language researchers and instructors for a few decades, and due to recent developments in Web 2.0 technologies, the possibilities of wikis for collaborative writing have increased enormously. However, few studies have explored the nature of wiki collaboration and interaction,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Second Language Learning
Han, Jining – ProQuest LLC, 2019
With the rapid development of Web 2.0 in the field of education, which allows users to interact and collaborate with teachers and peers on the web, many researchers have focused on exploring the developments of using Course Manage System (CMS) in service of L2 writing (e.g., Chun, 2011; Warschauer & Grimes, 2007). Simultaneously, participation…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Web 2.0 Technologies, Case Studies, Second Language Learning
Neesemann, Lisa Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In an effort to support preservice science teachers during their concurrent student teaching experiences and masters coursework, I created and implemented a Peer Mentoring Intervention to add an additional layer of support to those most traditionally curated. In this intervention, preservice secondary science teachers were paired into…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Student Teachers, Masters Programs
Linkhauer, Lorraine D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative case study focused on the perception of Creative Arts (CA) students on creativity and innovation stimulators and barriers in higher learning situations, and, the observation and comparison of the fluency and flexibility exhibited within the results of the 30-circle exercise to determine the degree of development for creativity and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Art Education, Creativity, Innovation
Leggins, Shanell – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to obtain insights into how creativity is (a) demonstrated in coursework and assignments, (b) addressed and fostered in the classroom, (c) affected by standardized testing, and (d) impacted by culture. These purposes were achieved by gathering qualitative data from a sample of 8 teachers and 8…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Advanced Placement Programs, International Education, Creativity
Square-Miller, Rhoshanda – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of a writing intervention on the writing and reading achievement of middle school students. Specifically, this study was concerned with 6th grade students who were exposed to a writing intervention and those 6th grade students who were not exposed to a writing intervention with regards to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Achievement, Reading Achievement, Intervention
Drobisz, Jack – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research examined how four different animated pedagogical agent implementations, which focus on perceptual and inquiry arousal conditions of attention as defined in Keller's ARCS model of motivational design (Keller, 2009), impact English language learners' situational interest, cognitive load, and reading comprehension in online readings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Animation
Malone, Jo Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Access to the Internet and technology skills are essential to the success of college students. Electronic textbooks are replacing paper textbooks. Laptops are replacing pens, pencils, and paper. Electronic forms found on school websites are replacing long registration lines. Hyperlinks are replacing handouts, and face-to-face interaction with…
Descriptors: College Students, Case Studies, Visual Impairments, Barriers