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Direct linkLarmel Dimatulac Madrilejos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study examines the perspectives of using the Desmos calculator of Algebra I students' conceptual understanding and procedural fluency to write, graph, and solve linear equations in Algebra I STAAR. While the students have continuously used technology for mathematics assessment, emergent bilingual students in South Texas still need help passing…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Equations (Mathematics), Causal Models, Concept Formation
Timothy D. Ellis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Transformative learning pedagogy in higher education leads to increased student engagement. The problem with transformative learning in higher education is deficiencies in research on increased student engagement obtained with transformative learning pedagogy. This research study addressed unanswered questions in the literature by exploring…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Natalie Sarah Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The current study examined the impact of experiencing either a guided play or direct instruction learning environment on causal learning, curiosity, and divergent thinking. Forty-three children (age 4- to 6-years) participated in an online experiment in which they completed a causal learning task in either guided play or direct instruction…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Play, Game Based Learning
Walker, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Traditional mathematics education focuses on teaching rote procedures to solve problems, though these procedures are not usually motivated by goals. As a result, students have trouble flexibly using procedures and generalizing their knowledge to solve novel problems that differ from the problems they practice during instruction. In the following…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Valdez, Angela L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The number of English language learners (ELLs) within the school system in one Western U.S. state continues to rise; writing scores of ELLs lag well behind those of their English speaking peers. The purpose of this ex post facto quantitative causal comparative study was to examine the writing achievement of fourth grade ELLs instructed within a…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Writing Evaluation
Estep, Steven A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this exploratory case study was to identify, investigate, and describe factors that contributed to the academic success of Phelps High School, a rural, isolated, Appalachian high school in Pike County Kentucky. The academic index of the school in 2000 was 48% and in a six year period the academic index of the school improved to 94%.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rural Schools, High Schools, Case Studies
