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Dzubaty, Dolores R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Disparities exist in healthcare related to language barriers and lack of cultural understanding between caregivers and recipients. Increasing the linguistic and cultural diversity of caregivers may decrease the healthcare disparities observed. The research study described in this manuscript was conducted to explore the undergraduate student…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Keenan, James M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teachers of standards based, College Prep English classes regularly face resistant and struggling readers who fail to engage, persevere, and comprehend curricular texts. As a result, these readers do not share in class discussions. Therefore, a class discourse was formulated upon Gee's (1996) Social Discourse theory and Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Resistance (Psychology), Writing Assignments, Imagery
Tarabochia, Sandra Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In this dissertation, I use qualitative research methods to study relationships between compositionists and faculty in other disciplines in the context of cross-curricular literacy (CCL) work. Drawing on a two-year CCL project in the biology department, for which I was a participant observer, I argue that compositionists need to attend more…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Writing Across the Curriculum, Participant Observation
Lawrence, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study infused key elements of creativity into the process of counselor education, exposing students in a counseling skills and techniques course to a curriculum designed to promote tolerance for ambiguity, appropriate risk-taking behaviors, and improvisational skills. Employing a phenomenological strategy of inquiry, the researcher sought to…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Creativity, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Objectives
Fowler, Janis C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine advanced coursework completion rates, Advanced Placement (AP)/International Baccalaureate (IB) testing rates, AP/IB exam passage rates, and the percentage of AP/IB exam scores at or above the criterion that may exist among Texas public high school students from 2001 to 2012 to ascertain (a) the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Advanced Placement Programs, Ethnicity, Racial Differences
Vinogradov, Patricia Egan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this case study of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) educators, the researcher facilitated a six-week professional development activity around the topic of early literacy instruction. The four participants in the study circle were all LESLLA (low-educated second language and literacy acquisition) teachers whose students are adult…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Kindergarten
Darragh, Janine Julianna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This intervention study examined the impact of reading young adult novels that portray people with disabilities on the attitudes of 229 eighth grade students. Students' beliefs and intentions to interact with peers with disabilities were measured on three occasions utilizing the Shared Activities Questionnaire (Morgan, Walker, Bieberich &…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Disabilities, Grade 8, Novels
Baker, Julie Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In adolescent literacy research, there is a gap in literature relating to adolescent constructions of reading. It is not possible to gather significant research on the topic without hearing from the adolescents themselves. The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover what the adolescent participants consider to be "reading" and…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Textbooks, Reading Motivation, Adolescents
Lutkewitte, Claire – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation identifies if and how graduate teaching assistants and instructors working in the field of rhetoric and composition teach multimodal assignments in first-year composition (FYC) courses. The research questions for this study were as follows: (1) In what ways do graduate teaching assistants and faculty teach multimodal assignments…
Descriptors: Assignments, Writing (Composition), Research Methodology, Teaching Assistants
Martin, Vance Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is an action research study examining the use of technology to encourage critical thinking and digital literacy in a community college history class. The students are responsible for researching course material and teaching the class. They then use a wiki to contribute to and edit an interactive, online textbook that has been…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Action Research, Democracy, Critical Thinking
Carr, John David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Geospatial tools and technologies have become core competencies for natural resource professionals due to the monitoring, modeling, and mapping capabilities they provide. To prepare students with needed background, geospatial instructional activities were integrated across Forest Management; Natural Resources; Fisheries, Wildlife, &…
Descriptors: Forestry Occupations, Environmental Education, Spatial Ability, Geographic Information Systems
Lu, Minhui – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored how the learners-as-ethnographers (LAE) approach facilitated intercultural learning among American students learning Chinese as a foreign language. Two research questions addressed the effectiveness of the LAE approach and students' learning experiences in a non-immersion context. I designed six ethnographic tasks for the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
O'Neill, Errol Marinus – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Online translation (OT) sites such as Free Translation and Babel Fish are freely available to the general public and purport to convert inputted text, from single words to entire paragraphs, instantly from one language to another. Discussion in the literature about OT for second-language (L2) acquisition has generally focused either on the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Translation, Computational Linguistics
Higgins, Patrick D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Effective communication skills are a vital component of student academic achievement and success, yet students often struggle with them. This study utilized an organizational writing graphic organizer based on a critical thinking model to determine the impact of its use on the persuasive writing scores of 9th-grade students. A sample of…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Critical Thinking, Program Effectiveness, Grade 9
Rachelson, Anouchka – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of community college professors regarding education for sustainable development (ESD). In-depth interviews with 14 professors from different disciplines were conducted. The participants taught at Miami Dade College, Florida, a Talloires Declaration signatory since 2006,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teacher Role, Holistic Approach, Sustainable Development