The purpose of this case study is to examine the impact that social emotional learning (SEL) has on students within a partnered learning classroom environment. Most research on social emotional learning focuses on elementary aged students, and lacks data from high school aged adolescents. Research interests include topics such as body language…

This study aimed to investigate the effect of field trips in the Primary stage on developing empathy and English language fluency. The researcher reviewed the literature for EFL fluency related to field trips and then designed a component list as a baseline for a pre-posttest, and a rubric for measuring the students' performance through field…

While art education has been and remains a pioneer in inclusion, there have been few investigations into its potential to improve perceptions of disability. In this study, the art teacher's role in modeling respectful communication and collaboration sparks an investigation into perceptions of disability in the inclusive high school art room. The…

This qualitative research study was conducted to measure how utilizing Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP), Culturally Relevant Teaching (CRT), and Invitational Theory (IT) in curriculum design would increase participants' awareness of their peers' experiences and build belonging among majority and minority students (i.e., students of color,…

The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that affect the diminishing persistence of heterogeneous academic achievers when induced in homogenous class as basis for the development of a support system to address the scenario. Through two-phase interview method the respondents were subjected. After that, the results were analyzed…

The University of Wisconsin--La Crosse offers the first web-based medical dosimetry program in the nation. There is no data to research a program of this type. This research consisted of the evaluation of other distance education programs including health profession programs in addition to face-to-face medical dosimetry programs. There was need to…

An implicit assumption in the majority of literature looking at development of prejudice in children is that race prejudice and sex prejudice are equivalent across groups; that is, sex bias is not conditional on race, and likewise race bias is not conditional on sex bias of the child. However, Warner, Fishbein, Ritchey and Case (2001) found strong…

How students perceive each other in the classroom and how they interact with one another have been variables in teaching which have been relatively ignored. Yet, how students interact with each other affects their learning outcomes and their self-images. To provide additional information and evidence on this variable, a study hypothesized that…

The study examined the manner in which self perceptions of learning disabled (LD) children (1) develop in relation to growing social awareness and (2) differ among groups of LD students who are segregated from normally achieving students for varying amounts of their instructional time. Eighty-seven children (in grades 3 though 8) had been placed…

There is an increasing interest in the practice of teachers staying with a group of students for more than one year. This is referred to as looping in educational practice. The problem of constant uncertainty or change of a new teacher year to year, creates less academic time and student anxiety. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects…

The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of educating students on the negative aspects of enabling their peers. Enabling is any action taken by a concerned person that removes or softens the effect of a harmful consequence. For this study, 24 students (21 females) who were characterized as "Natural Helper" students at a…

A study was conducted which examined records from the Ontario Court of Appeal to investigate the factors contributing to child molestation by teachers in the classroom. Data were analyzed using Finkelhor's model of emotional congruence. For the offenders against prepubescent children, the chain of causation was found to lead outside the classroom.…

Advocacy among primary students and lack of classroom participation was the identified problem area for this action research project report. There were 19 student participants in an afternoon kindergarten at Site A, and 20 student participants in a first grade classroom at Site B. The research team consisted of three teacher researchers. Two of…

This research focused on the undergraduate learners' perceptions of blended learning at the Arab Open University--Bahrain Branch (AOU-BH). It also focused on factors that influence learners' perceptions and examined the relationships between learners' perceptions and their particular demographic characteristics (age, gender, educational level,…

Aspects of the social environment that contribute to the development of a child's self-esteem are the topic of this literature review. Three issues are addressed. Taken up first are the often conflicting theories concerning how self-esteem is developed and maintained. Second is the issue of the influence on self-esteem of significant others. Third…