This study is an extension of Slutsky's (2016) dissertation about technology self-efficacy. The purpose of this study was to extend the generalization of the original study, considering the knowledge of teacher technology self-efficacy as it relates to integrating technology in the classroom. I built on previous research and added related…

This study examined the associations between adult education and training (AET) participation, educational attainment, literacy skills, gender, and race/ethnicity among the U.S. adult population aged 25 to 65 years old (n = 5,450). Given the socioeconomic advancements of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the last few decades, including higher…

Learners have difficulty making sense of and using multiple and diverse texts and applying complex reading strategies to solve problems on the Internet in academic settings. Some research suggests that opportunities for working together may help scaffold learners' learning and develop multilevel comprehension strategies. Despite the potential of…

The DLC concept also allows teachers and researchers to take into account various kinds of impact that multilingualism has on education. One impact of DLC is to illuminate how literacy teaching is to proceed in multilingual classrooms, with learners coming from traditions of literacy that might differ markedly from the official curriculum.…

In this research study, importance and resistance scores representing secondary school principals' attitudes towards financial literacy education in Pennsylvania were investigated. An original questionnaire was developed to measure the importance of ten financial topics as well as the importance given to four possible barriers to adding these…

The problem addressed by this study was that there are limited learning outcomes when electronic textbooks are not used in combination with paper textbooks in higher education. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of nurses regarding the use of digital textbooks in nursing degree programs. A qualitative phenomenological design…

Students entering college may not have the financial knowledge and competency needed to completely understand the loans they are signing up for when committing to student financial aid. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine the level of financial knowledge that first-year college students have when taking out college loans. This…

Critical literacy--which I define briefly here as a lens that assumes no text is neutral and therefore an important goal of reading and writing is to evaluate and critique the power and perspectives that all texts contain--has been continuously well-theorized over the past half-century but is less frequently taught or studied in practice,…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to explore how principals perceived the influence of their leadership style and leadership strategies on student literacy outcomes within a large K-12 urban school district in north Texas. The conceptual frameworks utilized in this study are professional learning communities, shared…

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that targeted technology professional development would have on teachers' technological self-efficacy, perceptions and beliefs, and frequency of integrating technology into the classroom. The researcher used a mixed method approach to measure the results of three professional development sessions…

Because of the inconsistencies in the current literature on literacy instructional approaches, there remains uncertainty about how to implement guided reading instruction most effectively. This research study explored and examined how teachers perceived the Next Step guided reading approach impacted their literacy instructional practices through a…

America's public secondary educational system has long included vocational education in its curriculum (Castellano, Stringfield, & Stone, 2009; Kantor, 1986; Kantor & Lowe, 2004), but increasingly ties its markers of career and college readiness to the availability of Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses, as research has shown…

The purpose of this quantitative, pretest-posttest causal-comparative with control condition study was to examine if there was a difference in misconduct, as measured by reduction in occurrences of disciplinary infractions while incarcerated. General strain theory of criminal behavior provided the theoretical context for this study. The Arizona…

McMaster University's Health Sciences Library (HSL) began to transition to a new liaison service model in early 2018. One of its librarians sought to understand how an academic health sciences library can optimise its support for academic undergraduate programmes. This scoping review of the literature was pursued with the aim to submit an informed…

In the 1930s, the Soviet government undertook great efforts to promote literacy and awareness in the countryside. Workers at cultural and educational institutions were entrusted with carrying out this task. The article analyzes the condition and historical development of "izby-chital'ny" [known in English as village "reading…