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How Can Text-Based Debates Increase Empathy In Upper Elementary Students, Melissa M. Ogden
How Can Text-Based Debates Increase Empathy In Upper Elementary Students, Melissa M. Ogden
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The research question addressed in this project was, how can textbased debates increase empathy in upper elementary students? It explores research around critical literacy, socialemotional learning, and debates with a specific focus on alternative perspectives and empathy development. The researcher combines research around different forms of debate, argumentation and collaborative reasoning, to create a textbased debate protocol. The action research studies the impact on students’ empathy development for characters found in read aloud texts through participation in weekly textbased debates and written reflections. Students debated two opposing perspectives regarding a character’s personality and wrote reflections in which they explained both …
The Impact Of Critical Literacy On The Moral Reasoning Of Adolescents, Sierra Mae Gilbertson
The Impact Of Critical Literacy On The Moral Reasoning Of Adolescents, Sierra Mae Gilbertson
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The research question addressed in this study was, in what ways does the implementation of critical literacy impact the moral reasoning of adolescents? It documents one teacher’s use of action research to create a unit that integrated critical literacy methods based on the research of McLaughlin & DeVoogd with moral education methods based on research by Kohlberg. The author documents details of the unit and uses related research literature to construct meaning and validate the study. She describes the effectiveness of each critical literacy activity in terms of the impact it had on the moral reasoning of her students and …
Increasing Autonomous Academic Motivation In Intermediate Elementary Students By Reducing Fear Of Failure, Whitney Schill Ramirez
Increasing Autonomous Academic Motivation In Intermediate Elementary Students By Reducing Fear Of Failure, Whitney Schill Ramirez
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The research question addressed in this project was, how does a combined approach of attribution retraining and incremental theory of intelligence intervention affect levels of autonomous academic motivation in intermediate elementary students? It documents the effects on autonomous academic motivation of an adapted intervention that taught fifth graders in an inner city, dual immersion program about making controllable attributions and having an incremental theory of intelligence. The intervention was part of a preexperiment that was based on the attribution retraining work of Haynes, Ruthig, Perry, Stupnisky, and Hall (2006), as well as the incremental theory of intelligence work of Blackwell, …