According to Duncan (1971), counselor educators who do not prioritize counseling practice may experience challenges in their teaching. For Duncan (1971), maintaining counseling practice "helps to keep the counselor educator alive to real-life counseling situations" (p. 157) and is beneficial to draw from in their teaching practices.…

This explorative study analysed a selection of school OFSTED reports to answer the research question, 'how are nurture and nurture group practice represented in OFSTED reports?' This study sampled secondary school OFSTED reports over a period of one year and analysed the reports for reference to nurturing and nurture group practice. Findings…

Psycholinguistics is the research of language in the mind: The architecture of storing the different components of language in our memory, and the ways we access that knowledge when processing and producing language. Psycholinguists usually conduct quantitative experimental research in which certain standards of experimental design, data…

Despite the fact that professional learning is the main means for maintaining quality educators and improving school instruction, professional learning does not guarantee teacher implementation of professional learning or increased student achievement. The inconsistency reflects the complexity of implementing professional learning with teachers…

In 2012, Northern Kentucky University began offering a Best Practices in College Teaching (BPCT) course. Prior to this program evaluation, the course had not been assessed in any formal manner. The gap in knowledge lies in understanding the unique aspects that the BPCT course offers. The Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE) developed by Michael…

The empirical research on dialogue-based pedagogies shows that they improve student outcomes and, thus, teachers should make more use of these methods. However, deeper analyses about whether certain modes of dialogue are better than others is under-researched, resulting in little information about which models best help teachers develop effective…

Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have traditionally evaded or been silent on issues of (in)equity and, thus, critiqued for their lack of attention to how social injustices create different outcomes for different groups (The Education Trust, 2020). Furthermore, these efforts have been criticized for placing the burden on individual…

This study contributes to the knowledge and planning that impacts the efforts and staffing of instructional specialists. This investigation contributes to having a better understanding of what an instructional specialist possesses in terms of qualities when interacting with teachers. Further implications can help determine how to shape and develop…

Special education teachers employ a variety of strategies to support the needs of students in their classrooms. This research focused on the beliefs that special education teachers have on the incorporation of dance to support academic, behavioral, physical, sensory, medical, social-emotional, and communication needs. Included in this study was an…

In this dissertation, we propose a computer-supported method, called insightful learning systems, for tracking student progress that yields human actionable insights. We cover our theories, experiments and applications that aim to pave the way for more effective understanding of student progress, in key skills for a course, by looking at students…

Traditional education has a history of examples and experiences of the disconnectedness in the relationship between teacher preparation and standardized achievement scores. The present investigation underscores the intertwined conflict within teacher preparation and its relationship to standardized achievement in the context of special education.…

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,…

In the instructional design field untrained instructional designers are creating educational content. In these instances, the content is created by subject matter experts. This growing subset of experts is known as instructional designers-by-assignment (DBAs). DBAs are prevalent in the equestrian education field. Unfortunately, in equestrian…

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…

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…