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Rasori, Tina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teacher leadership takes different forms and serves various important functions in bringing about and sustaining educational change. However, prior research suggests such leadership is difficult to cultivate. Most efforts to develop teachers' leadership abilities take place when teachers are already in the classroom. Teacher education…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Leadership, Teacher Education Programs, Research Universities
Robinette, Laurie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
English spatial term assignment can involve some level of ambiguity, in that a single preposition may map onto a different area of space depending upon contextual issues involved in the assignment. For example, a located object can be said to be "above" a reference object in different ways: (1) according to properties of the environment, (2)…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Assignments, Linguistics
Havlin, Patricia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Writing assessments have taken two primary forms in the past two decades: direct and indirect. Irrespective of type, either form needs to be anchored to making decisions in the classroom and predicting performance on high-stakes tests, particularly in a high-stakes environment with serious consequences. In this study, 11th-grade students were…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Grade 11, High School Students, Writing Assignments
Canfield, Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There are a large number of students entering college underprepared for college-level mathematics (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2011). While this problem is not new, it has become the focus of national attention because of the impact it has on college completion and workforce development. There is much written in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Phenomenology, Academic Persistence, Two Year College Students
Conant, Darcy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Stochastic understanding of probability distribution undergirds development of conceptual connections between probability and statistics and supports development of a principled understanding of statistical inference. This study investigated the impact of an instructional course intervention designed to support development of stochastic…
Descriptors: Statistics, Probability, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Inference
Wester, Jason Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the lived experiences of first-year college students who kept personal and private journals in an English composition course. The purpose of this study was to provide a description of the lived experiences of keeping those journals from the point-of-view of the journal writers themselves. Forty-eight students were involved…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Student Journals, Language Arts, English Instruction
Nicolas, Corinne E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Concerns about the poor quality of students' use of sources in undergraduate research writing have typically led to investigations either of students' information-seeking strategies or of their composing practices. I argue that an either/or approach provides an incomplete picture of students' research writing processes, and that an exploration of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Seeking, Student Research, Writing Assignments
Chamcharatsri, Pisarn Bee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This empirical study examined the perceptions and experiences of nine Thai college student writers' expression of emotions in poetry, narrative, and opinionated writing written in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages: Thai and English. The study focused on the participants' perspectives in order to gain more understanding of the phenomenon…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Poetry
Northrup, Christian Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the use of writing in a statistics classroom to learn if writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes of students as they solved problems. Through analysis of 329 written samples provided by students, it was determined that writing provided a rich description of problem-solving processes and enabled…
Descriptors: Statistics, Problem Solving, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods
Bennis, Candace L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research has shown that students with learning disabilities often do not complete or submit their homework, which may lead to failing grades. The intent of this research was to examine the perceptions of elementary special teachers on assigning appropriate homework for these students. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Homework
Bell, Donna W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to provide information that may improve or design technology professional development for family and consumer sciences teachers to integrate technology into student assignments. This study was designed to investigate (a) the extent to which Alabama family and consumer sciences teachers are requiring students to…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
Voegele, Janelle DeCarrico – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of hybrid learning (a blend of face-to-face and distance learning) is rapidly increasing in higher education. However, educational leaders have raised concerns about the proliferation of hybrid programming as an efficiency measure without appropriate attention to learning. This study examined the relationship between social, teaching and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Best Practices, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Design
Simon, Kelly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The development of preservice teacher beliefs is a complicated, non-linear process. It has been suggested that preservice teacher beliefs are highly impacted by their past histories as students, and that these beliefs act as a filter for interpreting the coursework and ideas in their teacher education programs. Understanding the way preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes
Chapman, Debra Laier – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Advances in technology and changes in educational strategies have resulted in the integration of technology into the classroom. Multimedia instructional tools (MMIT) have been identified as a way to provide student-centered active-learning instructional material to students. MMITs are common in introductory computer applications courses based on…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Introductory Courses
Ryan, Rachel Syring – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Institutions of higher education are feeling the pressure to offer a greater number of courses through alternative methods of instructional delivery including hybrid and online courses in an attempt to meet the needs of their students. Among institutions of higher education, community colleges have become a forerunner in online education, in many…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Online Courses, Blended Learning
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