Historic preservation -- Brazil -- João Pessoa (Paraíba); Historic preservation -- Connecticut -- Guilford
The process of historic preservation is complicated by a variety of factors. Given the economic and political exigencies that often exist it is necessary to develop means of effectively managing historic districts. The arguments for historic...
Phonemics; Phonemic awareness; English language -- Phonemics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States; Reading (Kindergarten) -- United States -- Evaluation; Language arts (Kindergarten) -- United States
The purpose of this investigation is to examine how metalevel instruction, dramatic play, and pretend play affect the developmental gain in phonemic awareness skills, including rhyming, segmenting, and blending throughout the kindergarten school...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Connecticut
The purpose of this project is to develop and implement instructional, mathematics programs that are based on the students' individual developmental and cognitive levels of functioning. The goal is to teach students with meaning so that they gain...
The purpose of this study was to compare the stress felt by officers employed by different size departments to identify differences and similarities between small town and urban policing. This study surveyed 104 officers of various ranks from four...
The purpose of this study was to determine if classical music impacts student learning. The goal was to find out if students who listen to classical music in the background would perform better on a written test compared with a group who did not...
The purpose of this study was to document, measure and compare growth in reading performance of four remedial third graders in two selected Jamaican schools. To accomplish this task the researcher designed and piloted FRIP, Foster Reading...
The purpose of this study was to examine the professional growth opportunities for teachers in multicultural education that contribute to improving student achievement. This mixed method was conducted by the researcher in three different urban...
Religion and sociology; Criminology -- Religious aspects
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between criminal thinking and religiosity (beliefs and behaviors) of non-offenders. Parishioners were recruited from a United Methodist Church in an urban area of Hartford, Connecticut. ...
Reading (Kindergarten); Reading comprehension -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the effectiveness of small group literacy instruction on kindergarten students' text comprehension. A comparison study of half-day kindergarten programs in an urban city in Educational...
Sex instruction for people with mental disabilities
The purpose of this study was to improve safe-sex knowledge among seriously mentally
ill clients living in a residential program. Many have recognized that education and
prevention are the most important tools, and that increasing health knowledge...
Vocational school students -- Connecticut; Vocational education -- Connecticut -- Examinations; Achievement tests -- Connecticut; Connecticut Academic Performance Test; National Occupational Competency Test Institute
The purpose of this study was to investigate academic underperformances in Connecticut technical high schools from 1999 to 2003. Gaps existed in students' academic performance between traditional high schools and technical high schools. This ex...
Algebra -- Study and teaching (Middle school); Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids; Manipulatives (Education)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of manipulatives in
supporting algebraic thinking in the middle grades, and reasons why they are misused, or
not used at all. Middle school algebra teachers from both urban and suburban...
The role of the police officer cannot be adequately analyzed without an understanding of their historical and social context. An examination of the role of the police officer in a small town provides an elucidating window showing how social forces...
The study was designed to distinguish if demographic information has any bearing on the amount of food consumed during a lunch period. Gender, ethnicity, lunch status were three demographics compared to the amount of food consumed that was...
Elementary school teachers -- In-service training -- Connecticut; Teacher orientation -- Connecticut
This case study describes and analyzes district-level support for new teacher induction in an urban district. The study was specific to the elementary-level, while a concurrent study was conducted at the middle/high school level (Brachman-Snyder,...
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...
Urban schools -- Connecticut; School principals -- Connecticut; Educational leadership
This case study explored leadership behaviors of urban school principals that develop capacity-building for teaching and learning that supported the school improvement plans of one school district in Connecticut. Six embedded cases were...
This Cities and Urban Land Use curriculum unit is intended to provide high school teachers of Advanced Placement Human Geography with a guide to teaching the broad and complex subject of urban geography. It may also add to the body of qualitative...
Intervention (Administrative procedure); Change (Psychology); Social change; Problem youth
This pre-post single group design study examined the effects of an intervention program on "at risk" middle school students in an urban school district. Ten 7th grade students identified as at risk of not successfully completing their middle school...
Geographic information systems -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Parks-- Connecticut -- New Haven
This project is the first systematic attempt in developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) for applications for city parks in New Haven. Edgewood Park and West River Memorial Park have been chosen for the study. But the framework established...