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Talented High School Students' Perceptions On How Their Parents Influence Their Achievement, Michael Fitzgerald
Talented High School Students' Perceptions On How Their Parents Influence Their Achievement, Michael Fitzgerald
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Talented students are an underserved population in American schools today. Despite being identified as talented in a certain domain, many of these students are not developing their potential into outcomes of advanced achievement and skill. Research shows that parents play a critical role in developing their children’s talent. To change the cycle of underachievement, we need to start working with the talented students to get their perspective on what helps them. This is a qualitative case study of four talented high school students to discover their perspective on how their parents influence their achievement and motivation to learn. Multiple interviews …
How Two High School Teachers Conceive Of Student Voice, Value It, And Foster It, Katherine Mary Mccleary
How Two High School Teachers Conceive Of Student Voice, Value It, And Foster It, Katherine Mary Mccleary
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this qualitative, exploratory study was to examine two high school English teachers’ experience as they worked together to purposefully implement increased student voice in their classrooms. The study focused on how a convenience sample of teachers designed, implemented, and reflected upon classroom assignments and lessons with the intention to increase student voice and ownership in the classroom. Teachers each participated in four individual interviews, four partnership observations and three classroom observations as they related to student voice implementation.
Data from the interviews, partnership observations and classroom observations were analyzed using qualitative methods and through the lenses of …