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Kevin Cunningham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Current paradigms for curriculum and instruction have yet to address methods for encouraging intrinsic motivation using educational and psychological principles in a constructivist framework. This research examined the perceptions regarding the potential efficacy and effects of implementing a new paradigm, the Self Sculptor Model, that uses…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Curriculum Implementation, Psychological Patterns
Andrea Marquardt Donovan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Learning mathematics involves abstract thinking and the use of symbols. To be successful in a mathematics classroom, students must master what symbols mean and how they work. Much prior work has focused on the nature of the external representations used in mathematics instruction, including manipulatives and symbolic representations. In this work,…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Elementary School Mathematics
Jamie Condon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The following study addressed the raising of racial consciousness of White teachers within predominantly White settings given prior research indicating limited racial consciousness and the tendency for learning within predominantly White spaces to be someone ineffective and limited. The purpose of this research was to study how a White teachers…
Descriptors: White Teachers, Racial Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Teacher Attitudes
Shawn Kaplan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This non-experimental, correlational, quantitative study sought to identify possible relationships between educators' beliefs in neuromyths - misconceptions or misunderstandings about how people learn - and the frequency in which instructional practices are used in the classroom. The prevalence and pervasiveness of neuromyth beliefs are well…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Misconceptions, Teaching Methods
Von Donyal Locklear – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Developmental education is critical in the future of higher education and for the large numbers of college and university students entering higher education. Developmental education sometimes carries a negative connotation, one that is misappropriated to developmental education itself, the students, and the colleges or universities they attend.…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Remedial Instruction, Community College Students, English Instruction
Qi, Shaoyan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Touted as the future of language teaching, task-based pedagogy is grounded in current Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories, and is in line with the trend of learner-centeredness in general education. However, the method has yet to be fully embraced by the language teaching community due to the lack of 1) clear delineation of pedagogical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
Charrai Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem that this action research study addressed was the ineffective facilitation strategies used in professional development for teachers. The purpose of the study was to determine whether reflective practices impact teachers' instructional decisions. The study used Cognitive Coaching, a reflective coaching model, as its intervention. To…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, English Teachers, Cognitive Processes, Coaching (Performance)
Matthew B. Selba – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In recent decades, a movement in mathematics education has emphasized active learning, real-world connections, and conceptual understanding. Despite this, students often struggle to relate mathematical concepts to real-world scenarios, leading to concerns about their ability to apply knowledge outside the classroom. Moreover, national and local…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Transfer of Training, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Christopher A. Rozeville – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Leading-to-Calculus Framework (LTCF) is a collection of math courses meant to prepare students for calculus. From its inception, however, scholars have marked out a number of problems with its approach, particularly for students of color: its content and activities are often too broad, its structure is too rigid, and it fails to regularly…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Intelligence, Student Characteristics
Tabbetha Harrison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative, non-experimental study was to determine if there is a difference in reading self-efficacy and perceived learning among fourth- and fifth-grade inner city students who participated in experiential learning and those that did not participate in experiential learning. Experiential learning is…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Self Efficacy, Literacy, Elementary School Students
Christensen, Julia Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the Next Generation Science Standards have called on teachers to shift from having students "learn about" science topics to having students engage in a process of "figuring out" how and why natural phenomena occur. These reform documents push teachers away from a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Guojing Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In interactive e-learning environments such as Intelligent Tutoring Systems, there are pedagogical decisions to make at two main levels of granularity: whole problems and single steps. Here, we focus on making the problem-level decisions of worked example (WE) vs. problem solving (PS) and the step-level decisions of elicit vs. tell. More…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Problem Solving, Learning Processes, Competence
Nicholas J. D'Angelo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Studio art education is lauded as a vehicle to establish critical and creative thought in higher education, yet there is no one method of assessment that can establish its effectiveness. Therefore, it is essential that studio art educators in higher education understand how students perceive their studio art assessment. The critique is widely…
Descriptors: Art Education, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Criticism
Jacquelyn Ann Koenig – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to determine if there was a significant difference in university students' learning motivation as measured by attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction, before and after augmented reality (AR) enhanced instruction, as measured by the instructional materials motivation survey…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Motivation, Learning Processes, Technology Uses in Education
Leah Ann Bryars – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The ability to communicate well through writing has never been more critical. Writing is a necessary skill to make a living and a "life." Even before beginning school, children try to make themselves known by writing. Graves (1983) writes that a child's marks on paper-or a wall-say to the world, "I am" (p. 3). Children are…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Writing Apprehension, Student Motivation
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