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Jamie Danielle Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study, aimed at supporting the work of assessing college students' spiritual formation in Christian higher education, looked at relevant empirical studies from psychology of religion and higher education student development. The review of the literature allowed the researcher to identify findings about college students' religiousness and…
Descriptors: College Students, Spiritual Development, Christianity, Religious Colleges
Casados, Theresa Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is ample evidence that youth who have supportive relationships with others experience more positive outcomes (Kesselring et al., 2016 ). Positive Youth Development (PYD) emphasizes the promotion of better outcomes for youth by building on their strengths and providing supports and opportunities to foster the achievement of goals and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Charter Schools
Waterman, Bradford H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study describes teachers' experiences of success and failure in teaching through interviews. The analytical framework for this study was based on Activity Theory (Leon'tev, 1978), and the research methods were developed by Herzberg et al. (1959). The inclusion of factors identified by Seligman (2006) and Maslach (1982) allowed for…
Descriptors: Interviews, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Elementary School Teachers
Smith, Darcie D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Eighty-seven 4th, 5th and 6th grade students were administered the "Derivational Relatedness Interview" (DRI) (Templeton, Smith, Moloney, Van Pelt, & Ives, 2009). The purpose of this instrument is to explore students' understanding of derivational morphology. During the same week, the subjects were also administered an Upper…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Schultz, Robert K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The primary purposes of the study are to investigate what teachers experience while using the Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT) and to relate those experiences to the rate of growth in students' mathematics achievement. The CDT contains three components: an online computer adaptive diagnostic test, interactive web-based student reports, and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction
Pummill, Bret L.; Edson, Jerry C.; Loftin, Michelle M.; Robinson, Matthew A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This report describes a problem based learning project focusing on superintendents' knowledge of the characteristics of high quality teachers. Current research findings offer evidence teacher quality is an important school variable related to student achievement. School district leaders are faced with the problem of identifying the characteristics…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Effectiveness