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Owens-Kristenson, Jodi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Despite Minnesota's investment in professional development in content area literacy, secondary students are not showing expected literacy gains. A lack of literacy proficiency limits future options for students. The purpose of this study was to examine content-area literacy strategy inclusion and its relationship to professional development in the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Instructional Design, Faculty Development, Correlation
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Pugh, Kevin J.; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa; Koskey, Kristin L. K.; Stewart, Victoria C.; Manzey, Christine – Science Education, 2010
This study investigated the prevalence of transformative experiences, antecedents of transformative experience, and the relation between transformative experience and deep-level learning (conceptual change and transfer) for high school biology students (N = 166). Results suggested that the high school students in our sample typically engaged in…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Biology, Dialogs (Language), Science Instruction