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Charlotte Schlamp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
State assessment test scores in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics had continued to decline in a southern state in the United States over the last few years. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the difference in middle school ELA and mathematics test scores between students receiving instruction in virtual and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students
Bethany I. McCabe – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the connection between the English Language Arts Professional Learning Community, data analysis, and research-based instructional strategies to improve students reading levels, as measured by the Pennsylvania Literature Keystone Exam at an Urban High School. It is a mixed-method study. Data were collected from 9th -12th…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Teachers, Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes
Marta Anderton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined English Language Arts teachers' reading engagement and reading motivation and how these correlated with student achievement scores on the 2023 Georgia Milestones. The researcher used the Adult Motivation to Read Scale (Schutte & Malouff, 2007) to obtain teacher-provided data on questions pertaining to teachers' reading…
Descriptors: Students, Reading Teachers, Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement
Katie F. Whitley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In schools, literacy is often positioned as a fixed set of reading and writing skills. This can limit what counts as an academically acceptable literacy practice despite the complex and nuanced ways people communicate in their personal and social contexts. With this tension around conceptions of literacy in mind, I wondered how teachers thought…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, English Instruction, Language Arts
Anne Elizabeth Petersen-Carnell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to determine the extent to which a statistically significant difference existed in eighth-grade English-language arts (ELA) and mathematics achievement between groups of students of low socioeconomic status (SES) who participated in a Washington school district's one-to-one laptop…
Descriptors: Achievement, Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Kimberly LaBoard – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative, descriptive, comparative study was to investigate the effect of teacher retention on the academic assessment of 8th-grade middle school students. The South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Assessments (SC READY) examination measured students' English/Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics academic performance. This…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Teacher Persistence, Academic Achievement
Pass, Brandy Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research that looks at the nuances of teaching English language arts in rural secondary classrooms is a growing field. Yet, there are limited studies focusing on rural secondary classrooms in the Southeastern United States, Georgia specifically. The primary goal of this project is to understand what it looks like to teach English in rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, English Instruction, Language Arts, Secondary School Teachers
Melinda McCarty – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Student learning is substantially impacted by the choice of curriculum, and a significant predictor of achievement gain is the level of implementation. The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to explore implementation experiences of primary and middle school teachers of English Language Arts (ELAR) curriculum at a rural school…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Implementation, Elementary School Teachers
Karen M. Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the impact of implementing Open Educational Resources (OER) course materials on student engagement and achievement in a 10th grade English Language Arts (ELA) classroom at a high-poverty, rural school district. Research suggests that the implementation of OER materials in a K-12 setting can positively impact student…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Language Arts, English Instruction, Grade 10
Lori Ann Barber – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher retention and shortages have long been an issue with this profession. This is not a new topic, but after the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm in March of 2020, education has not been the same and our students are paying the price with the shortage of high-quality teachers in our nation's classrooms. Teachers have left the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Language Arts, Reading Teachers, Faculty Mobility
Alissa M. Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While America is becoming increasingly diverse, educational stakeholders seek programs that address varied language and cultural needs, which is reflected by the growing popularity of dual language immersion (DLI) programs in recent decades. The problem is an extensively persistent academic achievement gap between students with native English and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
Faith L. Roberts-Graham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The phenomenon of interest in this study was veteran K-5 English language arts (ELA) teachers' perceptions of blended learning as an educational innovation setting and how they perceived the implementation of blended learning into their instructional routine. Blended learning is normally used in higher-level education but is now also used in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation
Madelyn Jane Stephens – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative study highlights the practices of current secondary English language arts teachers who graduated from the teacher education program at George Mason University to address the following research questions: (1) To what extent and in what ways do English language arts teachers who graduated from one teacher education program that…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Secondary School Teachers, Instruction, Teacher Education
Susan K. Porter-Voss – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this action research study was to evaluate the effect of a robotics-based intervention on empathy for students enrolled in secondary English and literature courses. Empathy, as a concept, is an integral component of reading comprehension and student motivation. A decline in reported individual levels of empathy among young adults…
Descriptors: Robotics, Intervention, Empathy, Language Arts
Jennie M. Baumann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Knowledge development, application, and refinement are essential parts of students' reading. One way to observe how students use their knowledge as they read is through talk. Studies routinely indicate that though reading is a social endeavor, teachers spend most of the allotted instructional time talking or using discourse patterns that do not…
Descriptors: Discussion, Text Structure, Intersectionality, Knowledge Level
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