Experiential outdoor learning is a teaching strategy that provides students with hands-on experiences and real-life examples to reinforce science content being taught in the classroom. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the perceptions that middle school teachers ascribe to their experiences of facilitating outdoor learning…

A full description of how a STEM protocol model can be an effective and comprehensive implementation of a complete initiative program. A discussion of the factors affecting student comprehension, progress, and cognitive development is made. A historical discussion of STEM policy and programs is included, as is an assessment program in the context…

The teaching of English Learners, one of the fastest-growing subgroups in American Public schools, is a task American classroom teachers are ill-equipped to handle. As students from a variety of language backgrounds move from metropolitan areas of the country to more rural locales educational leaders must equip teachers to integrate language…

Low mathematics achievement in the United States has led to a push to increase the quality of mathematics instruction. Policy efforts in mathematics have typically focused on increasing teachers' mathematical content knowledge (MCK), with the goal of increasing teacher quality, and in turn increasing student mathematics learning. While research…

This study examined the impact of mathematical practices and beliefs on teaching and learning, school accountability, and school demographics in Mississippi school districts. The study also examined the effect of effective mathematical practices, beliefs, and perceptions of teachers. Grades kindergarten through twelfth grade were included in the…

The prevalence rate of autism spectrum disorders among students with visual impairments is significantly higher than that of their sighted peers. Even with such a notable rate, there continues to be minimal research on the classroom strategy needs to support these students. While research may focus on each disability separately, it is necessary to…

Since the enactment of Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2016, K-12 schools in the U.S. have responded to the challenge with various instructional reform initiatives. School climate, teaching practices, and teacher self-efficacy are important aspects of research as they affect students' learning. The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to…

College students are frequently unprepared for the rigor involved in reading college-level materials. The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to analyze students' reading performance in contextualized and decontextualized reading courses over the period of one semester in a community college setting to determine the impact…

The purpose of this study was to examine elementary teacher perceptions of explicit phonics instruction as a tool to teach English Language Learners English as a Second Language. Of particular interest was if the teachers perceived consistent phonics instruction aided in the learning of a second language. This study used a basic qualitative…

The goal in this quantitative, comparative study was to examine differences in students' achievement depending on type of pedagogy--productive failure (PF) versus NPF--and gender (female vs. male) in the final content unit of an undergraduate general education mathematics course taught at a university in the Southwest U.S. The study was based on…

Pedagogical agents, virtual avatars that are often included in online training or educational modules, have been studied in a variety of disciplines to determine the extent to which their inclusion in online or multimedia learning environments may influence both cognitive and affective outcomes in learners. The present study examined the effect of…

Tax education, a subset of accounting education formed in the early 1900s, was largely ignored as a discipline until the 1970s. Over time, tax became a more prevalent part of accounting practice and the CPA examination. In 1996, the AICPA developed the Model Tax Curriculum (MTC) to give a practitioner's perspective on how taxation should be taught…

This exploratory case study examines the phenomenon of "carino" from teachers, students and parents in the DL classroom. Data collected involved 8 Latino/a Dual Language teachers, 143 Dual Language students and 141 parents of Dual Language children. The study uncovers how through "amor" (love), "afecto" (affection)…

There has been a long, historical debate around the relevance of grammar instruction on writing development. The grammar wars continue to contest literacy experts (Andrews, et al., 2006; Myhill & Watson, 2014), and a best instructional approach for teaching grammar remains unspecified. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate…

Teacher evaluation practices are often "pro forma" processes that offer those evaluated little opportunity for professional growth and development. Using a participatory action research (PAR) design, I engaged teachers and instructional leaders in a process to revamp evaluation procedures for English language teachers in an international…