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Stringham, Rhonda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Assessment and testing have become accepted practices in US schools today, to the point where teachers, parents, and students consider it excessive at the expense of instructional time in the classroom. Formative assessment programs have been implemented to improve academic performance for well over a decade. The problem that was examined by this…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Rural Schools, Case Studies
Bounds, Sharon L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative multiple case study was undertaken to answer the following question: How did ReadingĀ® (RR) teachers and former Reading Recovery teachers in a mid-sized rural school system in the southeastern United States describe the influences of their Reading Recovery training as it related to their current professional lives? Additional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Reading Programs, Reading Teachers, Program Effectiveness
McKnight, Douglas; Chandler, Prentice – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2009
The social studies profession has always been at its weakest in dealing with the analysis of racism and class (Ladson-Billings, 2003; Marshall, 2001), and the new technocratic atmosphere and discourse generated by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) will serve to make such analysis completely absent, despite the rhetoric of the National Council of the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Resistance (Psychology), Controversial Issues (Course Content), Case Studies
Norman, Lashaunda Renea – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative case study investigated the teaching strategies that improve science learning of African American students. This research study further sought the extent the identified teaching strategies that are used to improve African American science learning reflect culturally responsive teaching. Best teaching strategies and culturally…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, African American Students, Science Instruction
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2009
The "International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. It contains the following papers: (1) Teacher Perceptions of Authentic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Professional Development in an African American High School's…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Conferences (Gatherings), Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies