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Jack Hiram Kyle Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The affective domain is listed within Bloom's taxonomy as critical in human education, development, and healthy human behaviors (Durlak et al., 2011). This study examines empathy within the context of forgiveness to resolve lingering and painful emotions which could engender detrimental behaviors. Previous studies have shown that the act of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Christianity, Altruism, Conflict Resolution
Blaire Hodge-Woodring – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Many students enter postsecondary institutions looking to further their educational endeavors. These students enter at various levels of preparedness, which can affect their learning experiences, with not all first-semester college students entering postsecondary education prepared to face the challenges of college-level work. Students come to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, World Literature
Lofquist, Leslie Crews – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project sought to revise the Pastoral Theology program at Shepherds Theological Seminary in Cary, North Carolina. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Shepherds Theological Seminary and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of three passages of Scripture (1 Tim 3:1-7; 1 Tim 4:6-16; 2 Tim 2:1-6) to show that…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Educational History, Program Descriptions, Classification
John Funchess Ott Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to implement and evaluate the impact of a virtual reality book club on the social presence of students. This research examined participants using virtual reality headsets to study the works of William Shakespeare. This study examined two research questions: (1) How does the implementation of a virtual…
Descriptors: Books, Clubs, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Lena Renee' Roodzant – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research indicates that Response to Intervention (RTI) increases student achievement and significantly improves student academic and behavioral outcomes. RTI has demonstrated significant student gains in the elementary setting and research tends to be more heavily centered at the elementary level; however, RTI is expanding to being applied in the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Response to Intervention, Secondary Education, Middle Schools
Catherine Armstrong Asher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Intervention research in education investigates whether and how particular educational programs help students learn. Treatment effect heterogeneity, or variation in a program's impact, makes this effort more complicated, because it means more work must be done to understand what works, for whom, and in what contexts. This dissertation consists of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Reading Attitudes, Summer Programs
Andre T. Melvin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The aim of this dissertation was to evaluate the effect of the Columbia International University Prison Initiative program on the spirituality of male inmates incarcerated within South Carolina's Department of Corrections. The Prison Initiative program is an accredited two-year associate's degree in Biblical studies offered to SCDC inmates.…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Males, Spiritual Development
Willard, Blake Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This project was designed to develop a Bible curriculum that trains parents to be primary disciple-makers of their children at Covenant Preparatory School in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Chapter 1 explains the purpose, goals, context, and rationale for the project. Chapter 2 provides a biblical and theological basis why parents are to be the…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Parent Education, Discipline, Parent Role
Reagan Urbanec – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the individual experiences of five Poe High School alumni and to understand how these alumni made sense of their experiences with reading while participating in the Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) program. This study employed the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) methodology to…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Alumni, Silent Reading, Attitudes
Houston, Raymond Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The main purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of developmental mathematics courses at a suburban community college. A review of current literature provided a number of appropriate and commonly used measures of effectiveness, such as size and scope of the program, as well as completion rates and success rates of students in the…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Developmental Studies Programs, Suburban Schools, Community Colleges
Takacs, Natalie B. McPhail – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research study was to determine differences between teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of professional development related to the integration of technology into the curriculum with respect to teachers' years in education, highest degree level earned, and self-assessed technology usage level. Technology integration is a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Technology Integration
Hall Pistorio, Kalynn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Preparing young children for kindergarten is an important task. There are many skills that need to be learned. Simple everyday school and daily living tasks are kindergarten readiness skills that need to be taught. Many preschool students struggle to learn these skills unless taught directly. There are a sufficient number of interventions that…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Intervention, Skill Development
Greeley-Bennett, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a literacy-based intervention on the conventional pretend play skills of preschool children who are visually impaired. The intervention involved experience books, real objects, story-reading, and role-play, which are common strategies used to teach children with visual impairments. A…
Descriptors: Literacy, Intervention, Imagination, Play
Reynoso, Elsa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This three article dissertation focuses on the teachers' perceptions regarding STEM education. Article 1 consists of a literature review that includes an overview of the type of STEM education that takes place at the secondary level. The review explores what the literature says about after-school STEM programs, diverse students and their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, STEM Education, Literature Reviews, Secondary Education
Fogelsong, Donna Fortune – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study was designed to investigate teachers' perceptions about instructing listening in second-grade classrooms. Children's literature that included specific listening content was used to explore how the teachers' perceptions influenced planning read alouds for explicitly teaching listening skills. Investigations included: (1) What were…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Teacher Attitudes, Grade 2, Elementary School Teachers
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