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Carlos Adalberto Rios – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study focuses on female executives at two-year and four-year public Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the U.S. Southwest Border States by examining their lived experiences and career paths that helped them become successful senior administrators. Although most college students are female, women in leadership positions in academia are…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Employed Women, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Chi Dat Lam – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In everyday life, humans rely on working memory (WM) processes to make sense of relationships between linguistic elements that are not linearly adjacent. For example, to understand the sentence "The dog that the cat chased is cute," we encode the referent "the dog" into WM, maintain and retrieve it after reading the verb…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
Paula Lyn Larsen Mamani – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A high-quality, foundational education offers lifelong benefits for young children. The problem is that working memory in pre-school-aged children is declining and could be impaired by the extraneous cognitive load imposed during engagement with screen media apps and/or preschool programs. Although the pedagogical practices associated with…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Montessori Schools, Computer Use, Short Term Memory
Tiffany Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Most military-connected students (MCS) with active-duty parents attend public schools in the United States. Due to the highly mobile military lifestyles of MCS, some are at risk for academic, emotional, and social challenges. School counselors are often charged with supporting and advocating for MCS; therefore, it is vital to understand elementary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Education, School Counselors, Counselor Attitudes
Sen Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
An experimental study was conducted to examine the effects of shared book reading and video viewing on preschoolers' vocabulary and knowledge acquisition in informational text. The study included 60 preschool children who were randomly assigned to three experimental groups --shared book reading group, video viewing group, and shared book reading…
Descriptors: Books, Reading, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
Stephenie Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Active learning is critical to the development of lifelong learners. This study employed a mixed-methods approach to determine the extent to which teachers incorporate rigor and engagement in their classrooms. Both of these elements are required to create active learning environments for students. This evaluation study investigated the knowledge,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Quality, Difficulty Level, Academic Standards
Sharon Lee Head – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In this study, I used a case-based narrative inquiry to investigate the literacy narratives and the thinking about instructional practices of four teachers of students with complex support needs (CSN) from a small, rural school district in the Southwestern United States. I conducted initial and follow-up interviews and facilitated two focus groups…
Descriptors: Teachers, Students, Special Needs Students, Difficulty Level
William Thomas Smith IV – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Schools are under tremendous pressure to close achievement gaps and increase students' college and career readiness. Research has shown that students' interactions with rigorous curriculum and instructional practices positively impact their postsecondary outcomes (e.g. Adelman, 2006; Oakes and Saunders, 2007). With an established standard of rigor…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Grade 9, History Instruction, High School Students
Martin, Melissa Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Latinx students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE; ages 18-20), not enrolled in school, often do not fully employ mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) strategies to acquire English and may experience barriers to using MALL strategies. The purpose of this study was to explore what MALL strategies Latinx SLIFE (ages 18-20), not…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Weaver, Joanna P. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study tested the hypothesis that exploratory learning, with and without analogous problems, would improve students' ability to make connections between conceptually-related topics. In this randomized experiment, undergraduates in introductory physics (N = 171) studied a new topic under three different instructional conditions. Order and type…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, College Science, Physics