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An Ecological View Of Urban Kindergarten Reading Instructional Practices, Deborah Ann Clark
An Ecological View Of Urban Kindergarten Reading Instructional Practices, Deborah Ann Clark
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Kindergarten students who are identified as at risk in reading often enter school with deficiencies in early reading skills. Little research exists for this vulnerable population on reading instruction in large, urban, school systems. The purpose of this multiple case study, which was guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of human development, was to describe urban kindergarten teachers' beliefs about the environmental factors that contribute to students' at-risk reading status, instructional practices employed to remediate reading, and teacher reports about systems in place to support student reading development. The multiple case study design included (a) structured interviews, (b) observations of kindergarten …
Instructional Strategies Within A Blended Learning Model For At-Risk Students, Kim Marette Zeydel
Instructional Strategies Within A Blended Learning Model For At-Risk Students, Kim Marette Zeydel
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many at-risk students attending an alternative high school in a northwestern state were not graduating on-time even after a learner-centered blended learning model was implemented. The administration and teachers sought to understand why the change to a learner-centered program was only slightly increasing the graduation rate each year. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how the learner-centered instructional strategies used within a blended learning model were being implemented and supporting at-risk students. Weimer's learner-centered framework was used to ground the study and guide the research questions which examined teacher and student perspectives about the learner-centered instructional …
Aleks Constructs As Predictors Of High School Mathematics Achievement For Struggling Students, Nadine Mills
Aleks Constructs As Predictors Of High School Mathematics Achievement For Struggling Students, Nadine Mills
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Educators in the United States (U.S.) are increasingly turning to intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) to provide differentiated math instruction to high school students. However, many struggling high school learners do not perform well on these platforms, which reinforces the need for more awareness about effective supports that influence the achievement of learners in these milieus. The purpose of this study was to determine what factors of the Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS), an ITS, are predictive of struggling learners' performance in a blended-learning Algebra 1 course at an inner city technical high school located in the northeastern U.S. …