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Belcher, Nathan Tillman – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This action research study used data from multiple assessments in Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism to determine the viability of Modeling Instruction as a pedagogy for students in AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism. Modeling Instruction is a guided-inquiry approach to teaching science in which students progress through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Advanced Placement Programs, Mechanics (Physics)
Scott, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the present action research study is to describe a hands-on activity model, named the Constructed Scaffold Model (CSM), used in an Advanced Placement Calculus class in a southeastern United States suburban high school. Data were collected over an 8-week period during the spring 2017 semester. The teacher-researcher developed a…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Models, Program Implementation, Hands on Science
Saa'd AlDin, Kawther – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In 2010, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization mandated that all its schools, including Diploma (DP) schools, adhere to the collaborative planning and reflection requirements, which emphasized the importance of integrating its theory of knowledge (TOK) core component into all disciplines. Many schools officials and educations in Amman…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Planning, Reflection, Knowledge Level
Hughes, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
It is unknown how the school can best influence the variables that determine pursuance of science study and career choice to bring about greater opportunity to learn challenging science curriculum for all students and promote Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Student decisions regarding the type of science class to…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, STEM Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Curriculum Development
Frost, Denise Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The problem is that some secondary schools use the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program to service gifted students even though it was not developed as a gifted model. The purpose of the study is to determine if gifted identified students benefit more or less academically than students not identified as gifted as a result of their…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Tests
Jarva, Carly Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
"I think what I learned in the IB [International Baccalaureate] program...well, in a way I felt like--have you read Great Expectations? When Pip gets the stipend from the mysterious person and he's walking out and the clouds are lifting up and he can see all the possibilities--that's how I felt with the IB program." -Student reflection…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, State Standards
Redmond, M. William, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study is to develop a preadmission predictive model of student success for prospective first-time African American college applicants at a predominately White four-year public institution within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. This model will use two types of variables. They are (a) cognitive variables (i.e.,…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Bound Students, White Students, State Universities