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Motivational Factors Impacting Youth Participation In West Tennessee 4-H, Crystal Paige Pipkin
Motivational Factors Impacting Youth Participation In West Tennessee 4-H, Crystal Paige Pipkin
Masters Theses
The 4-H Youth Development Program is an organization that is offered through the Cooperative Extension System. 4-H is mandated to provide youth with opportunities for experiential learning in the field of agriculture and home economics. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that motivate high school youth participation in 4-H programs in West Tennessee. The central research question guiding this study was: What motivates high school youth to participate in the 4-H program after 8th grade? The findings of this study can be broken down into three themes (a) Why 4-H members continue participation into high school, (b) …
Getting Ready For The Test: The Impact Of School Restructuring On High School English Teachers, Todd Sloan Cherner
Getting Ready For The Test: The Impact Of School Restructuring On High School English Teachers, Todd Sloan Cherner
Doctoral Dissertations
As debates about how to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) continue, educational stakeholders need to consider the impact that No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) accountability policies put on teachers working in low performing schools. Specifically, schools that annually struggle to achieve adequate yearly progress based on student test scores are narrowing the curriculum they offer students down to only teaching testable skills (Crocco & Costigan, 2007). As such, students who attended a school that taught them a narrowed curriculum only learned how to take high stakes tests and not how to compete in the 21st century …