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Krystal Dawn Grieger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been a growing emphasis on integrating green and sustainable chemistry (GSC) into the curriculum. Unfortunately, there is yet to be a nationwide, uniform decision of which aspects should be included or how, leaving individual instructors or institutions to decide whether--and how--to address GSC knowledge. Furthermore, faculty nationwide…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Organic Chemistry
Medjy Pierre-Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School systems across the United States increasingly use performance-based assessments (PBAs) as alternatives to traditional standardized tests, like the SAT, to make post-secondary and workforce readiness (PWR) determinations. However, very little research has been conducted to validate such alternative assessments as valid indicators of a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Rural Schools, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
Bradley Carter – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Higher education in post-independence Africa remains trapped in foreign knowledge systems, despite decades of strong cries to replace them with Afrocentric systems. The purpose of this dissertation-in-practice was to evaluate the Africanization of an undergraduate program at a college in Southern Africa. Using the CIPP Model of evaluation, a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Theological Education, African Culture, Educational Policy
Bond, John Kenneth – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This non-experimental, descriptive study examined the effect(s), if any, that professional learning communities have had on the professional practices of secondary (grades 9-12) mathematics teachers in Boone, Clay, Putnam, and Kanawha counties in West Virginia. Also investigated were the potential differences in instructional-practice change(s)…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Secondary School Mathematics, Curriculum Development, Secondary School Teachers
Nicole C. Kymissis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis study was to understand the perspectives of Massachusetts biology teachers and discover if the 2016 changes to the Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering (STE) Curriculum Frameworks impacted their instructional practices and pedagogy. Concentrating on the consequences of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Educational Policy, Science Teachers
Gregory Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to explore and understand the impact of standardized testing on educational practice in an urban, Title I school community, and to determine solutions to improve the utility of standardized testing in supporting student learning and achievement. The specific areas of focus are diagnosing…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, Urban Schools
Minter, Christopher Joel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research presented in this dissertation looks at how students in general chemistry reason about atomic emission spectroscopy. Situated within the context of a transformed general chemistry curriculum called "Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything" (CLUE), the goal of this study was to (1) characterize the various ways in which…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Chemistry, Spectroscopy, College Science
Phone Thit Noe – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this case study was to explore teachers' pedagogical beliefs about student learning and achievement in mathematics. The participants included three classroom teachers who taught mathematics from one public charter school in Southern California. Data collection included two sets of interviews, field notes, samples of lesson plans,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Learning Processes
Gerald Fussell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to assess whether the use of student self-assessment of non-cognitive skills is accurate and reliable by comparing them to the assessment of student development provided by their teachers of these same skills. For this study non-cognitive skills refer to skills including communication, collaboration, creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Core Competencies
Wegrzecka-Kowalewski, Eva – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines how critical thinking skills are addressed in university-level intensive language programs for international students in the United States. The theoretical framework for this study was built upon Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. Three research questions inquired about language instructors' ability to conceptualize…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Immersion Programs, Foreign Students, Universities
Abitabile, Antonio W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Small City School Districts across New York State are becoming increasingly fearful of losing newly hired, highly talented teachers. In the United States, 8% of teachers leave the profession annually and greater than 50% quit teaching before reaching retirement age (Sutcher, 2016). A study done on teacher retention decisions in New York City…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Administrator Role, Principals
Sack, Carl M. Lemke Oliver – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation explores how to teach web mapping. Web mapping skillsets are in demand by employers, yet a minority of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) programs include web mapping in their curricula. The dissertation seeks to promote web mapping education by addressing the barriers to teaching web mapping and instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Cartography, Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction
Outcomes of Math Faculty Engagement in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment in the Two-Year Colleges
Bruley, Marie N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study utilizes a mixed methods exploratory design to examine the nature of math faculty engagement in the student learning outcomes assessment cycle. The focus of the study is on the types of changes that math faculty are implementing as a result of assessment outcomes and the institutional environmental factors that impact faculty engagement…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Student Evaluation
Kirksy, Mylon J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study analyzed how three award-winning divisions of Student Affairs are using assessment to show evidence of student learning and development at their institutions. There is a movement in U.S. higher education toward increased accountability through outcomes assessment. Institutions are called upon to demonstrate effectiveness in their…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Bachman, Karen S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is the result of research which examined the implementation of professional learning communities in a primary school. Professional learning communities or PLCs are groups of educators coming together collaboratively in a process of inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. While there were…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Scientific Research, Action Research
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