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Technology With Differentiated Instruction For Advanced Middle School Students' Reading Achievement, Clarissa Haymon
Technology With Differentiated Instruction For Advanced Middle School Students' Reading Achievement, Clarissa Haymon
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Educators offer rich learning experiences to all students, including advanced learners. A school district experienced a decrease in improvement percentiles on annual state reading achievement tests for advanced middle school students between 2012 and 2015. Guided by the theory of differentiated instruction, this quantitative study evaluated the effectiveness of Achieve 3000, a technology-enhanced program for differentiating reading instruction in a middle school that has a large percentage of advanced learners. The program was fully implemented for advanced 6th through 8th grade students beginning in the 2017-18 school year. Using a causal-comparative design, the archived reading scores of 120 advanced 6th …
Teacher Clarity Strategies Of Highly Effective Teachers, Megan Olivia Hall
Teacher Clarity Strategies Of Highly Effective Teachers, Megan Olivia Hall
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Teacher clarity supports both cognitive and affective learning for all learners. The scholarly literature lacks research related to teacher clarity in nonlecture learning environments. The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover teacher clarity strategies that effectively promote student learning, particularly in nonlecture learning environments. The conceptual framework involved cognitive load theory and constructivism. The research questions explored how highly effective teachers experience clarity to promote student learning in nonlecture learning environments and what innovative strategies highly effective teachers practice to ensure clarity in nonlecture learning environments. For this in-depth qualitative interview study, data were collected through virtual synchronous …