This quantitative exploratory study examined the relationships among high school students' school engagement, socioeconomic status (SES), mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics achievement. The study investigated whether school engagement and socioeconomic status contribute to students' mathematics achievement. Furthermore, the study explored…

The purpose of this study was to explore questioning practice in Career and Technical Education classrooms in one Tennessee school district. Four research questions were formulated for this study which investigated relationships between the participant's background, course cluster and level, and quantity, type, function, and cognitive rigor level…

In 2016, Hispanic students comprised 19 percent of all college students in the US, an increase of 11 percent over the last twenty years, representing the fastest-growing demographic in higher education. Latino students are half as likely as white students to gain a bachelor's degree, a gap that has been continuously widening since the 2000s. There…

This research study relationships in social justice and higher education. The study surveyed students to determine if there were relationships between social justice prams and diversity, equality, and feeling included. There were relationships between social justice programs and feelings of inclusiveness and there were relationships between social…

This quantitative correlational study explored the relationship between math anxiety and math self-efficacy among practicing elementary teachers in a midwestern county. The independent and moderating effects of the number of math content courses taken, the complexity of math courses taken and the number of years of teaching experience were also…

It has been established in prior research that parent involvement and school-family partnerships have the potential to positively impact student achievement; however, creating and maintaining positive and productive parent-teacher communication can be difficult. Since teachers function as the link between school and the home, there is an increased…

Academic achievement in elementary science achievement scores throughout Title One schools in metro-Atlanta could be identified through analphabetism and improper vocabulary instruction to accommodate students' learning styles. Teaching words explicitly entails extensive time and patience when exposing new science vocabulary. However, teaching…

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…

This dissertation is a three-piece dissertation, including two empirical research (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2) and a methodological improvement of prior work (Chapter 3), to address issues of the effects of approaches to learning on academic achievement in childhood and power analysis for a three-level model in meta-analysis. Approaches to learning…

Many methods are used to measure interrater reliability for studies where each target receives ratings by a different set of judges. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of hierarchical modeling for estimating interrater reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient. This study provides a description of how the ICC can be…

What is the nature of the relationship between different lower-level numerical skills and their role in developing arithmetic skills? We consider the hypothesis of a reciprocal relationship between the development of symbolic (e.g., Arabic numerals) and nonsymbolic (e.g., arrays of objects) numerical magnitude processing. Evidence for…

In recent years, McNamara, and associates Hambrick and Oswald, conducted and published studies which purportedly showed deliberate practice exerts less powerful main effects than presented and popularized in the press, public discourse, and professional circles. Their central aim seemed to be one of correcting a particular misperception, as they…

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between was to examine dispositional flow state, sensation seeking and ski resort preference of skiing and snowboarding participants. The sample of this study constituted 510 (126 female x-bar = 23.94 ± 5.79 years; 384 male x-bar = 27.33 ± 7.87 years) skiers and snowboarders from varied ski…

This paper revisits the admixture of secular and spiritual aspects in Bildung. It aims at re-examining the intimate relations between the secular, rational and enlightened educational ideals, which were invested in the formation of the Bildung concept at the turn of the eighteenth century, and the religious, and mystical foundations of these…

The research is based on the analysis of interaction of different forms of art: cinema and literature. Cinema is in very close connection with literature since the moment of emergence. In spite of this various discussions about the literature and cinema's interaction continue. There is no consensus about the status of film adaptation, its fidelity…