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Davidson, Leavery Y. Jefferson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Federal mandates require technology use in the classroom, but not all English language arts (ELA) teachers have implemented technology as an integral part of teaching. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate why ELA teachers in 2 local high schools rarely or never use technology as an instructional tool. The study was…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Language Arts
Gouin, Rhoda D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to address the problem of poor student achievement and high discipline referrals in a rural middle school in the southeastern United States. The theoretical foundations for this study were Bandura's social cognitive theory of self-efficacy and Glasser's choice theory. Research questions involved understanding the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Low Achievement, Discipline Problems, Student Behavior
Bean, Kristen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African American students are one of the historically disadvantaged groups by the public education system. Related to this phenomenon is the overrepresentation of African American children in special education due to disability diagnoses, which has been referred to as disproportionality. It has been hypothesized that disproportionality is due to…
Descriptors: Special Education, African American Students, Outcomes of Education, Child Behavior
Wright, Johnnie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Social promotion is defined as the practice of allowing students who failed to meet performance standards and academic requirements the opportunity to pass on to the next grade with their peers. Although the A+ Educational Reform Act abolished the use of the practice, social promotion continues to occur in numerous school districts across one…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Student Placement, Academic Failure
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Guerra, Cecília; Moreira, António; Vieira, Rui Marques – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
One of the challenges higher education institutions face is to effectively endow science primary teachers with competences on "how", "where", "when" and "whether" to use technological resources (software and hardware) in teaching contexts. Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) requires…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Teacher Competencies, Science Teachers, Teacher Education
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Hwang, Stephen; Cai, Jinfa; Shih, Jeffrey; Moyer, John C.; Wang, Ning; Nie, Bikai – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
This paper explores how curriculum and classroom conceptual and procedural emphases affect the learning of algebra for students of color. Using data from a longitudinal study of the Connected Mathematics Program (CMP), we apply cross-sectional HLM to lend explanatory power to the longitudinal analysis afforded by Growth Curve Modeling that we have…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Algebra, Equal Education, Mathematics Curriculum
Brown, Tamala P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many studies have been conducted to address childhood behavior problems, but much remains unknown regarding the causes and factors that affect internalizing and externalizing problems in children. The purpose of the current research study was to examine the relationships between children's internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and (a)…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Behavior Problems, Children, Family Structure
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Fauville, Géraldine; Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Säljö, Roger – Research-publishing.net, 2012
Environmental education (EE) is now clearly specified in educational standards in many parts of the world, and at the same time the view of language learning is moving towards a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) strategy, to make English lessons more relevant and attractive for students (Eurydice, 2006). In this respect,…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Social Media, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Spencer, David; Riddle, Matthew; Knewstubb, Bernadette – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
Graduate capabilities are an essential aspect of undergraduate development in higher education. Accordingly, La Trobe University's "Design for learning" has identified particular university-wide graduate capabilities and required all faculties to explicitly embed these in their curricula. The Faculty of Law and Management developed an approach to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Tucker, Virginia M. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance writing programs still struggle with assessment strategies that can evaluate student writing as well as their ability to communicate about that writing with peers at a distance. This article uses Kim, Smith and Maeng's 2008 distance education program assessment scheme to evaluate a single distance writing program at Old Dominion…
Descriptors: Tests, Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Distance Education
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Turk, Janelle – Art Education, 2012
Making the visual arts program meaningful in public education can be a challenge when one considers how little instructional time is devoted to the visual arts. A challenge for art educators is to seek opportunities outside the classroom for real-life inquiry-based projects. This form of systematic inquiry done by teachers for themselves is called…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Action Research, Art Education, Visual Arts
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de Villiers, Rian – Perspectives in Education, 2012
Vivisection (live animal experimentation) is a controversial issue for many people. The purpose of this case study is to examine the attitudes of prospective teachers toward vivisection in education and research, to determine if gender has an influence on these attitudes, and to discuss the implications of these attitudes with regard to teaching…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Scientific Research, Animals, Foreign Countries
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Keddie, Amanda – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2012
In this paper Nancy Fraser's conceptual tools are drawn on to theorise issues of justice in a culturally diverse primary school in Australia where approximately 30% of the student population are immigrant/refugees. The paper examines justice issues of cultural recognition in relation to refugee student identity, behaviour and assessment. Drawing…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Migrant Children
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Porter, Theodore M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Ruscio et al. (Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, & Mahalchik, this issue) write of a thing with which scientists and scholars are all too familiar, the assessment of published research and of its authors. The author was startled to discover how little the agenda of the paper seems to engage with factors one relies on for salary and promotion…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Data Analysis, Evaluative Thinking, Bias
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Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
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