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Teacher-Student Relationships And How They Encourage Mathematics Achievement Among Black Males, Makeba C. Butler
Teacher-Student Relationships And How They Encourage Mathematics Achievement Among Black Males, Makeba C. Butler
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
This research study focuses on positive teacher-student relationships and how these relationships influence the mathematics achievement of African American elementary male students. It identifies some of the characteristics relevant to the establishment and cultivation of the teacher-student relationship and sheds useful insights into how African American male students respond to the interactions with their teachers. Extant literature has increasingly shown that positive-teacher student relationships significantly shape academic progress in Black students. Through teacher surveys and teacher interviews, this dissertation offers a synopsis of how teachers facilitate relationships with their African American male students as well as gives a detailed account …
The Experiences Of At-Risk African American Males In An Online Credit Recovery Program, Marcus H. Scott
The Experiences Of At-Risk African American Males In An Online Credit Recovery Program, Marcus H. Scott
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to capture the essence of experience as at-risk African American males engaged in online credit recovery coursework. In specific, the research questions reviewed what supports were needed and what strategies were employed by research participants in order to be successful in the alternative learning environment. The ultimate goal was course completion. The reader is afforded the opportunity to view these experiences through the lens of the microsystem and macrosystem. These systems were a part of Bronfenbrenner’s (1989) Ecological Systems Theory. Critical Race Theory (Delgado & Stefancic, 2012) and the Self-Regulatory Theory (Zimmerman, 1989) …