Special education -- Spelling ability; Spelling ability -- Remedial teaching
The purpose of this study is to investigate if specific strategies help special education students become effective spellers. The study is guided by three sub-questions: 1) Will teaching word families, onset and rime, and chunking of familiar words...
Multiplication -- Study and teaching (Middle school); Arithmetic -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
The purpose of this study was to determine if numeric fact strategies or a rote-fact rehearsal strategy would increase student recall of multiplication facts for middle level students. An additional goal of this study was to determine if numeric...
Literacy -- Study and teaching (Middle school); Boys -- Education (Middle school) -- Evaluation
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Reciprocal Teaching on literacy achievement of boys. This mixed method, quasi-experimental study was conducted by a teacher researcher in her seventh grade World Geography class. Treatment,...
The purpose of this thesis is to suggest effective data collection strategies that drive individualized and differentiated instruction that meets the Common Core State Standards. Due to high-stakes testing, teachers are expected to use qualitative...
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Discourse analysis; Internet games -- Social aspects
The research presented here attempted to replicate previous work done by Peña and Hancock in 2006 which examined the proportion of socioemotional versus task based utterances used in online, recreational computer mediated communication (CMC). This...
The role of defensive pessimism in memory recall was examined in a comparison of an imagery and non-imagery technique; as compared to an individual’s own best method. Defensive pessimism, an academic motivational strategy used to harness anxiety...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Academic achievement -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements
The use of formative assessment has come to the forefront as a means of enhancing student achievement in mathematics. The hallmarks of formative assessment are questioning, immediate feedback to teachers and students, peer-review, task-focused...
Internet in education -- Jamaica; Education, Primary -- Jamaica
This case study documents Internet use in Grade 6 classrooms in rural and urban, inner-city primary schools in Jamaica. Data sources included field notes, journal entries, interviews, classroom observations, photographs, a video, and Internet...
This project proposes to situate Cooper's Chingachgook and Hetty,Melville's Queequeg, and
Hawthorne's Pearl and Priscilla, as rhetorical characters of what shall be termed the primitive-as-savior
tradition of American fiction. This rhetoric...
Achievement motivation in children; Elementary school teaching -- United States
This qualitative exploratory case study examined teachers' perceptions of student motivation and the possible implications those perceptions might have on their teaching as well as their students' learning. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators are...
Educational equalization; Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Curricula
This qualitative study documented the journey of both teacher and students as they explored a gender-balanced approach to the sixth-grade art curriculum. The study focused on broadening student perspectives, demystifying male and female artists,...
Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Political violence; Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
This research examines the internal and external root causes of terrorism by providing an in depth study of al-Qaeda. After more than ten years of fighting, the war on terror the threat from al-Qaeda still remains. Al-Qaeda cells around the world...
This study examined differences in emotion regulation strategies and happiness among three age groups: young (18 - 35 years), middle-aged (36 – 62 years), and older adults (63 years and older). Also, emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and...
United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; Children with mental disabilities -- Ability testing; Children with mental disabilities -- Education; Deaf -- Ability testing
This study explored instruments for measurement of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for deaf mentally-retarded students under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The study sought to determine if such assessments could measure progress and were also useful...
This study investigated psychological and personality factors related to the onset of cancer. Stressful life events and coping strategies were investigated in a retrospective study of 69 cancer patients from local support groups and their controls....
Today's special education teachers who work with students with difficulties in mathematics will need not only a deeper understanding of mathematics, but a thorough understanding in what the learning disabled student "sees" when approaching...
Motivation in education; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Urban schools in particular need to motivate students to gain higher levels of mathematics achievement and acquisition. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) deemed this problem significant enough to place a motivational domain to...