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Elementary Teachers' Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of Coteaching, Geeta Gupta Kadakia

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In response to the low passing rate of its students with disabilities, administrators at a small urban elementary school in south Texas implemented coteaching. Guided by Nonaka and Takeuchi's collaborative learning framework, this qualitative instrumental case study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of collaborative teaching in the elementary education setting. Data collection consisted of a group interview and classroom observations with a purposeful sample of 4 general education teachers and 2 special education teachers of Grades 3-5 math and language arts who were coteaching at the time of the study. Teachers' perceptions regarding the effects of their professional relationship …

The Impact Of Project-Based Learning On Critical Thinking In A United States History Classroom, Craig E. Cash

Theses and Dissertations

This present quantitative action research study compared the test scores of one group of students who experienced a project-based instruction United States history unit with one group of students who experienced a traditional lecture style United States history unit at a suburban high school in South Carolina. The problem of practice that guided this study arose from the lack of critical thinking that the essentialist curriculum and teach-to-the-test instructional strategy foster in this school and the social studies classroom. The identification of the problem of practice led to the development of a research focus examining the impact of project-based instruction …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Teacher Performance Evaluation System Ratings And Student Achievement, Lisa Hilberg

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This study was guided by the question: Is there a statistically significant relationship between the teacher evaluation tool (using the summative ratings of teacher evaluations from the 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 school years for teachers of Grades K-5 using the Danielson Framework for Teaching model, 2007) and student achievement (as measured using the Northwest Evaluation System (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) in that same period of time) in a selected Michigan school district?

Quantitative methods and a Spearman correlation were utilized to determine if there was a positive, negative, or no relationship between the independent variable, teacher evaluation ratings, and …