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Segui, Nomara I. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Vocational high school students are not passing state tests and are not meeting adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements in Puerto Rico. Limited qualitative research has been conducted to examine the experiences of vocational high school students regarding mandated standardized tests. Using a qualitative case study, the experiences of Puerto…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, High School Students, Student Experience, Standardized Tests
Bahadorani, Homeira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Language instructors play a decisive role in adult language learners' learning and retention of vocabulary through planning, selection, and teaching of vocabulary and strategies. However, some professional language schools lack extensive teacher-training programs that prepare instructors with the skills required to select and teach vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
Toms, Marcia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to discover and describe the self-regulated learning (SRL) of a group of first-semester college students. Using Zimmerman's model of self-regulated learning, this study considered two major research questions: (a) how and why do first-semester college students decide to self-regulate? and (b) how do first-semester…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
Smock, Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research has begun to address the use of social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, for supplementing and enhancing classroom-based learning. However, the use of social media platforms for less formal learning has received little attention. Study One of this dissertation presents the results from semi-structured interviews with twenty-one…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Informal Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Ahamba-Anuforom, Harriet U. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of underprepared students regarding the effectiveness of two teaching strategies: cooperative learning and mastery learning, and the strategy the students perceive to be more beneficial than the other. Specific questions that guided the study are: How do underprepared students perceive the…
Descriptors: College Students, College Preparation, Educational Strategies, Cooperative Learning
Hull, Michael Malvern – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the 1980's and 1990's, results from flurries of standardized exams (particularly in 4th and 8th grade mathematics and science) reached the attention of ever-growing numbers of Americans with an alarming message: our children are not even close to keeping up with those in China, Japan, and Korea. As a step towards improving American classrooms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Context
Kara, Melike – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The aims of this study were to investigate how upper-elementary-grade students compare the volume of rectangular prisms of equal volume (specifically, students' noticing and reasoning for invariance of volume and coordination of the three linear dimensions of rectangular prisms) and how students' levels of sophistication in volume measurement…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 4
Clements, Diane K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Over the past decade there have been several national reform movements focused on increasing the completion rates of community college students, yet those rates have remained at about 38%. If community colleges are to be reformed, much of this reform must focus on the faculty, their classroom practices, their perspectives on teaching and learning,…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Teaching Methods
Lewis, Amy L. Micklos – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Statistics have shown that individuals with disabilities are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This work focused on exploring how three students with blindness enrolled in a full-inclusion high-school chemistry class experienced and conceptualized content in order to inform educators,…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Blindness, High School Students
Miller, Amanda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation reports the results of a qualitative research project on area measurement. The study utilized structured, task-based interviews with students to (a) investigate the ways students enumerate and structure two-dimensional space with a variety of area units; (b) identify conceptual, procedural, and intuitive aspects of area…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Measurement, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Samruayruen, Buncha – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to identify the existing level of self-regulated learning (SRL) among Thai online learners, to examine the relationship between SRL and academic achievement based on a) course completion and b) course grades, and to investigate differences in SRL as they correlate to demographic factors. A mixed-methods research…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
Flores, Emma M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite the growing body of research on doctoral education, little is known about how doctoral students learn to do research across the disciplines. Even though there is a lack of empirical research on the pedagogy of research in doctoral education, much of the literature anecdotally and metaphorically attributes students' learning to traditional…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Apprenticeships, Researchers, Adult Learning
Chen, Ying-Chih – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine students' understanding of argumentation when talk and writing were provided as learning tools, as well as to explore how talk and writing can best support students' construction of scientific knowledge. Most current studies have examined discourse patterns over a short interval of only a few class periods…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Scientific Literacy, Active Learning
Thachil, Shoba Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined factors that relate to the persistence of first-generation undergraduate students in a 4-year public university in the Southeastern United States. Results were analyzed from a 2011 two-part survey: CARES-I (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering Students-Intent) and CARES-A (College Assessment of Readiness for Entering…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Semi Structured Interviews