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The Effectivness Of Advisory Pograms With Teachers And Learning Disabled African-American Students In Urban High Schools, Camelia Ramona Gligor
The Effectivness Of Advisory Pograms With Teachers And Learning Disabled African-American Students In Urban High Schools, Camelia Ramona Gligor
Wayne State University Dissertations
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVISORY PROGRAMS WITH TEACHERS AND LEARNING DISABLED AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN URBAN HIGH SCHOOLS
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Camelia Ramona Gligor
ABSTRACT
This is a study that investigated the effects of Advisory program on African American high school students with specific learning disabilities. In this qualitative study the advisory program is examined through the lenses of teachers and students from a Mid East Metropolitan Area (MEMA).
Three research questions guided this dissertation: (1) How do secondary school teachers perceive inclusive advisory in urban schools; (2) How do African-American SLD students value their experiences in advisory; (3) What are the secondary teachers’ …
Dropping Out In Southeast Kansas: Why Students Leave School Early, Garon Kent Wire
Dropping Out In Southeast Kansas: Why Students Leave School Early, Garon Kent Wire
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This qualitative study takes a deeper look into the lived experiences of students in southeast Kansas who have dropped out of high school. As a result, school and community leaders are better informed to create effective strategy, policy, and practice in dropout prevention.
Framed as a phenomenology, data was collected by conducting in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 12 participants and a focus-group interview with four participants. The researcher administered a survey/questionnaire to an additional 15 participants. Utilizing the Streamlined Codes-To-Theory Model (Saldana, 2009); organizational, structural, and elaborative coding techniques were implemented to reduce the data into categories, which led to the …
A Cad/Cam/Cnc Curriculum For High School Students, Cory Patrick Torppa
A Cad/Cam/Cnc Curriculum For High School Students, Cory Patrick Torppa
All Graduate Projects
The need for CAD/CAM/CNC curriculum for Washington State was researched. Based on research a resource workbook for CAD/CAM/CNC was in demand. In order to meet the demand for CAD/CAM/CNC curriculum and bridge the gap between the state standards, drafting frameworks, STEM curriculum, increased focus on implementation within multiple disciplines, providing a starting point for teachers who want to use CNC machinery in their program, and prepare students for quality jobs and careers related to CAD/CAM/CNC, a workbook was created. The workbook includes 27 hands-on lessons and projects, student handouts, applied STEM problems and activities, tutorials, drafting standards, state math standards, …
Administrator And Teacher Perceptions Of The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Online Courses In Urban/Suburban New Jersey Public High Schools, Heather Carr
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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The Academic Impact Of Service-Learning On New Jersey Public High Schools, Andrea Lynne Dinan
The Academic Impact Of Service-Learning On New Jersey Public High Schools, Andrea Lynne Dinan
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Collective Efficacy And Collaborative Climate In Maine High Schools, Sarah Mackenzie
Collective Efficacy And Collaborative Climate In Maine High Schools, Sarah Mackenzie
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
School reformers contend that a collaborative climate is conducive to effective schools. Collective efficacy is logically connected to collaborative climate and has the potential to enhance understanding of the psychosocial aspects of schools as organizations. This study's purpose was to examine the relationships among teacher efficacy, collective efficacy, and collaborative climate and to determine how, if at all, these three indicators of teacher and school effectiveness were statistically linked. I The study involved surveying 21 high schools. Teachers (n = 384) responded to a 40-item instrument consisting of variables related to their individual and collective efficacy, sense of collegiality, beliefs …
Block Scheduling: From Possibility To Reality?, Frederic M. Muse
Block Scheduling: From Possibility To Reality?, Frederic M. Muse
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study examines teacher practices and student learning as perceived by teachers within public high schools that have implemented block scheduling. Comparisons are made between the possibilities advanced by block scheduling advocates and the actual results as interpreted from the data gathered. Comparisons are made between teaching and learning with the traditional schedule and the manner in which it takes place with block scheduling. Open-ended questionnaires were developed for use with voluntary participants who had worked with traditional scheduling and now taught with some form of block scheduling. Participants recorded observations based solely upon personal perceptions of experiences with students …
An Analysis Of Secondary School Alternative Programs In Relationship To The Needs Of Tumwater High School, Kathy Fryar-Odegaard
An Analysis Of Secondary School Alternative Programs In Relationship To The Needs Of Tumwater High School, Kathy Fryar-Odegaard
All Graduate Projects
This project report presents the development of an alternative education program for Tumwater School District, Tumwater, Washington. The program was examined in four parts: the existent conditions as the program began, the initial organization of the program, development and implementation, and the reorganization and closure of the program. The recommendations included additional research on the effect of alternative education program's on student achievement.
A Survey Of Family Life And Sex Education Programs In Washington Secondary Schools, James Bernard Darcy
A Survey Of Family Life And Sex Education Programs In Washington Secondary Schools, James Bernard Darcy
All Master's Theses
The purpose of this project was to measure the incidence of family life and sex education in Washington secondary schools; to discover what departments or academic areas include such education in the curriculum; who the teachers are, and the nature of their preparation; to gain a definitive description of what kind of education is attempted under this heading; and to evaluate needs and opportunities for expanded and improved family life and sex education in the State of Washington.
The Development And Progress Of Advanced Placement Mathematics In Utah High Schools, Marvin C. Golightly
The Development And Progress Of Advanced Placement Mathematics In Utah High Schools, Marvin C. Golightly
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Since the beginning of public schools, the bright, gifted students have plagued both teachers and administrators alike. The question of what to do with these bright students has caused much concern, and in this time of concern, many varied and different programs have begun. From some of these experimental stages. This is the Advanced Placement Program, as outlined by the College Entrance Examination Board.