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Morrison, Tomasine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study sought to determine if participation in a home education learning program would impact the perceived levels of parental self-efficacy of parents/caregivers who participate in the completion of home-learning assignments and increase their levels of home-learning involvement practices. Also, the study examined the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Parent Student Relationship, Parents as Teachers, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation
Barbara A. Zaborowski – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The intent of this exploratory study is to identify the information-seeking behaviors used by community college students when using information resources to complete a writing assignment, the expectations that faculty have in regard to that writing assignment and the role librarians can play in that process through information literacy…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Student Behavior, Expectation, Academic Libraries
St. George, Carol Yerger – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Parental involvement (broadly defined as including both natural parents and other significant adults) has been consistently shown to produce positive results in students' literacy achievement, and there is widespread agreement among parents and school personnel about the value of parental involvement in education. However, educators do not…
Descriptors: Action Research, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, School Personnel
Fessinger, Rosemary Kubiak – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study presents the results of a fifteen-month research project conducted with a group of Latina (Mexicana) immigrant mothers who took part in an after-school family literacy program that was grounded in a participatory approach to education. This family literacy program emphasized a "strengths" perspective by acknowledging the rich resources…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mothers, Family Literacy, Social Networks
Eakes, Kevin – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether differences exist with regard to music achievement, music self-concept, or student course satisfaction among students enrolled in four different sections of an undergraduate music appreciation course taught from chronological or sociocultural approaches in online or face-to-face formats.…
Descriptors: Music Appreciation, Music Education, Conventional Instruction, Synchronous Communication
Castro, Antonio Jamie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Given the growing cultural and economic diversity of today's students, this qualitative case study investigates how 4 social studies preservice teachers taught for critical multicultural citizenship during their student teaching semester. The tenets of critical citizenship emerge out of the intersection of critical pedagogy and multicultural…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Social Studies, Citizenship, Cultural Pluralism
Maietta, Heather N. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Career development is relevant for employees and employers, as well as a vital discipline for connecting school-to-work as educators struggle to facilitate the transition into employment for millions of students (Hoyt & Lester, 1995). The landscape of the world-of-work is ever changing, both in terms of economic stability and instability, and…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Graduates, Vocational Maturity, Self Efficacy
Rivas, Rodolfo R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This exploratory study centered its investigation in the participants' responses provided in 2 different instructional teaching delivery methods (traditional and online) that utilized active-like teaching learning techniques (case studies, group projects, threaded discussions, class discussions, office hours, lectures, computerized assignments,…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction, Online Courses
Anderson, Susan Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The merits and shortcomings of formalized assessments of student writing have been debated by critics who maintain they are not valid measures of writing proficiency, often result in a narrowing effect on the local school curriculum and elicit predictable or formulaic writing by students and by proponents who argue they help to inform teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Scoring
Starling, Tina T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This comparative study examined discourse and opportunities for interaction in two mathematics education methods classes, one face-to-face and one synchronous, online. Due to the content taught in the course, this study also sought to determine prospective mathematics teachers' understanding of variability and the role of discourse in each…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Assignments, Video Technology, Comparative Analysis
Hohenthal, K. Darcy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The Bolman and Deal (2003) Four-Frame Model was adapted in this qualitative phenomenological research study to describe how stakeholders experience student service-learning. The study presents how students perceive the positive benefits and critical challenges encountered in their service-learning experience; how professors perceive the positive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Assignments, Student Attitudes, Service Learning
Swanson, Lauren Honeycutt – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Science classrooms in the United States have become more diverse with respect to the variety of languages spoken by students. This qualitative study used ethnographic methods to investigate the discourse and practices of two ninth grade science classrooms. Approximately 44% of students included in the study were designated as English learners. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Feedback (Response), Assignments, Class Activities
Kidwai, Khusro – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research study had two purposes, (a) to design and develop a Web-based learning environment that supports the use of a set of reading strategies, and (b) to investigate the impact of this Web-based learning environment on readers' "memory" and "understanding" of an instructional unit on the human heart (Dwyer &…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Processes
Dunn, Sandra Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation examines the content of a required classroom management course to determine how preservice teachers are prepared for managing problem behaviors. Qualitative content analysis of interviews with four adjunct classroom management course instructors, their course syllabi, textbooks, assignments and projects, ancillary course…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Schmidt Moore, Michele – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Students are entering a workforce that demands competency in writing both for explicit communication through e-mail as well as in products in the company's day-to-day dealings. Strategies for teaching students to communicate in writing have been evaluated extensively in a face-to-face environment. Many of those successful strategies have been…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Writing Assignments, Self Efficacy, Syntax