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Decisions Based On Perception: Perceptions Of Stem Teacher Leader Job Satisfaction In Rural, High Poverty Schools, Jodi G. Zeis

Theses and Dissertations

High poverty rural schools face teacher turnover at a rate higher than average schools. Perceptions drive decisions. Workplace circumstance affect what drives the leadership of STEM teacher leaders in high poverty rural schools. Therefore, when STEM teacher leaders leave, they take their unique skill sets with them. Research shows that engagement and self-efficacy, along with professional appreciation lead to a higher retention rate of teachers. Often that is achieved through distributed leadership. This study aimed to determine how leadership experiences shape the professional perceptions of STEM teacher leaders in high poverty, rural schools. Building on previous research this study asked: …

Teacher Perceptions Of How Attire Affects Student Behavior And Academic Performance: A Case Study, Gwendolyn Ivery

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

This qualitative single case study sought to examine middle school teachers’ perceptions about how their attire impacts student behavior and academic performance. The study took place in a school district located in Texas, with the target population being middle school teachers at a Title I school. Twelve certified teachers with varying degrees of experience and expertise within a particular content area contributed to this study. After using a semistructured interview process as well as teacher observations, data were coded and analyzed with the aim of allowing general themes to emerge. The results of this study align with the conceptual framework …

Facing The Ruler, Facing The Village: On The Roads To Complicity Following Mengzi And Benda, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, “Facing the Ruler, Facing the Village,” Zvi Ben-Dor Benite seeks to broaden the boundaries of the discussion about complicity by taking it away from late 20th-century and contemporary debates about it. At the same time, he wishes to highlight the many faces that the problem of complicity could have in different historical moments. Following Czesław Miłosz, this article understands that there are many roads to complicity that have been articulated in different ways across time and space. This article is, therefore, an integrated meditation on complicity bringing together two radically distant approaches to the question. Reading the …

Homelessness And Hospitality On The Ground, A Methodological Proposal For Catholic Social Teaching, Daniel Pilario

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

What resources, perspectives and experiences can we draw from formal Catholic Social Teaching and broader Catholic social thought to help us understand and interpret street homelessness in a global context? This article is intended to be an invitation to share narratives of hospitality on the ground vis-à-vis the problem of homelessness in the global world. Unlike top-down approaches, there are no clear principles to be applied; only concrete stories with all their frictions, ambiguities and difficulties hoping that God’s inspiration can reveal itself on the rough grounds where people walk in fidelity to the Gospel.

Determining The Success Of Collegiate Student Athletes, Cadie Annett

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Learning In The Light Of Freedom: The Mississippi Freedom Schools Of 1964, Emma E. Appleton

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This paper investigates the “freedom schools” of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. It argues through a combination of a powerfully designed curriculum, the implementation of student-centered pedagogy, and a focus on relationship building and personal efficacy, freedom school students were given the skills and confidence needed to become young leaders in their communities and bring change to Mississippi. Through this paper, I hope to encourage current educators apply freedom school principles and practices in their own classrooms to inspire our students in the same way.

School Of Education Hooding Ceremony & Reception Program, May 2019, Lindenwood University

College of Education: Hooding Ceremony

School of Education Hooding Ceremony & Reception Program, May 2019.

The Human Element: An Interview With Professor Lorelle Semley, Brynn A. Cotter, Joshua Whitcomb

Of Life and History

No abstract provided.

Virtual Exchange Pedagogy: A Digital Humanities Approach, Courtney Dorroll, Kimberly Hall, Cate Blouke, Emily Witsell

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Perspectives Of First-Year African American Students And The Impact Of A Trio Living Learning Community At A Historically Black College And University, Dorothy M. Pearce-Brady

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Dorothy M. Pearce-Brady on April 15, 2019.

Music As A Cultural Gateway: A Short-Term Folk Music Program In Albania, Catherine Pierattini

Capstone Collection

Folk songs have been described as a musical representation of a society’s entire culture. The field of ethnomusicology combines aspects of music and anthropology, and the study of folk music can give considerable insight into worldviews, histories, and traditions. Yet there are few study abroad program providers using this discipline as an approach to cultural analysis and exploration.

The proposed Middlebury Music Studies in Albania program would introduce diverse folk music traditions in three distinct cities, giving students the chance to learn the basics of the Albanian language, understand the historical, geographical, and social influences on the music in the …

Book Review: Forced Confrontation: The Politics Of Dead Bodies In Germany At The End Of World War Ii, Christiane K. Alsop

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction, Kimberly M. Jones-Goods

Journal of Research Initiatives

This qualitative study examined the incorporation of culturally responsive literacy instruction. The purpose was to explore teachers’ perception of effective culturally responsive literacy and instruction and ways in which the participants implemented culturally responsive literacy instruction. This study identified and explored three themes affecting three ways in which the participants incorporated culturally responsive literacy into their classrooms. The findings of this qualitative study align with literature on culturally responsive literacy instruction.

Assessing History Students’ Historical Skills In The Cape Coast Metropolis Of Ghana, Charles Adabo Oppong

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This study assesses history students’ historical skills in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana. The specific skills assessed were document literacy and evaluative skills. In assessing these skills, two instruments were employed: the use of a test and a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) guide. Students were tested to examine their skills in using historical documents under sourcing, contextualisation and corroboration. FGD was used to investigate how students evaluate historical evidence. The data analysis of the students’ test consisted of three stages. The first stage involved marking the responses while making notes on them, the second stage included writing a single …

Interview With Bill Lemman (2019), Bill Lemman, Clarence Hein

Portland State University Oral Histories

In this interview, former Oregon University System Vice-Chancellor and Portland State University administrator Bill Lemman discusses his career in higher education in Oregon with Clarence Hein.

This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library.

W.T. “Bill” Lemman has been affiliated with Portland State from its inception. As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. After earning his degree in Business Administration at the University of Oregon in 1949, he returned to Vanport in 1950 as Assistant Business Manager. He returned again in 1959, eventually …

Schools' Mission Statements, Local Education Agencies' Strategic Plans, And School Accountability, Amber Holomshek

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

This study examined the role alignment between a school’s mission statement and its LEA’s strategic plan had on their students’ overall academic performance in achieving any of the seven distinctions and a met standard rating on the 2016-2017 Texas Education Agency’s school accountability system. Data were used to determine if there was a higher rate of alignment between Title I or non-Title I schools’ mission statements and LEA’s strategic plan. The conceptual framework of this multiple case study was grounded in Tyler’s model of objectives-based evaluation, utilizing critical incident technique as an organizational tool, which called for three pieces of …

Full Issue Spring 2019

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

1913 - Guide To Materials For The History Of The United States In The Principal Archives Of Mexico; Herbert Eugene Bolton

Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports

This preliminary report about the materials pertaining to the United States located in the Mexican archives was based upon what was actually found, prepared wholly for utilitarian purposes, and not a definitive treatise on the Mexican archives. It should be regarded as a compilation of notes, taken by one primarily interested in knowing and recording the whereabouts and nature of materials for United States history, and put in the most convenient form consonant with that purpose. There was included in the report, necessarily, many references to characters and events of Mexican history proper, especially those which have had close connection …

Yay Or Neigh? Frederic Remington’S Bronco Buster, Public Art, And Socially-Engaged Art History Pedagogy, Jennifer Borland, Louise Siddons

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

This article outlines a collaborative, community-based project developed for two undergraduate art history courses at a large state university. The exercise focused on Frederic Remington’s 1894-95 sculpture, the Bronco Buster, a large bronze image of a cowboy whipping a bucking bronco with the goal of taming it. An enlarged replica of Remington’s sculpture was installed recently in the downtown district of this university town, raising questions about how it was selected and funded, as well as what message the sculpture sent about the town to its visitors. As we discussed our frustration with both the iconography and the selection …

Editors' Notes To Volume 3, Virginia Spivey, Renee Mcgarry

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

No abstract provided.

Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone : Ethics, Pedagogy, And Effecting Change In Field-Based Courses, Agnieszka Paczyńska, Susan F. Hirsch

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses—which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education—have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict? In Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone, editors Agnieszka Paczyńska and Susan F. Hirsch highlight new approaches to field-based learning in conflict zones worldwide. As the contributors demonstrate, instructors must leave the comfort zone of traditional pedagogy to meet the challenges of field-based education.

Drawing on case studies in the United States and abroad, the contributors address the ethical considerations …

A Grounded Theory Exploration Of Teacher Grading Practices, Ingrid Rockhead

Education Dissertations and Projects

An examination of the history of grading reveals that many of the problems associated with current traditional grading practices are not new. Despite impassioned pleas from researchers and grading experts, practices such as assigning zeros on a percentage grading scale, assigning grades for practice such as homework and classwork while students are still learning, using the mean to report on students’ overall grades, and not allowing reassessments continue to occur. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and report on Title I teachers’ grading practices and explain using grounded theory methods, the influences on those practices. This study …

A Review Of Literature: Identifying Barriers To Academic Success Among Students With Disabilities Attending College In Rural Regions, Kaycee Lynn Bills

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

College students who have disabilities are an oppressed population that faces many challenges related to accessibility barriers in higher education located in rural environments. The number of adults with disabilities attending college has been steadily increasing over the past decade. As the number of college students with disabilities continues to rise, it is essential for researchers to identify the barriers education attainment barriers they face in rural college settings. This study is a systematic review of literature that analyze past studies in order identify the challenges students with disabilities face in higher education settings located in rural regions. It also …

Graduate Scholar 2019: Journal Of Scholarship And Recognition, Graduate School Of Eastern Illinois University

Graduate Scholar

No abstract provided.

Programs And Courses Catalog 2019-2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

This catalog is published for students and other persons who want to know more about the University of Northern Iowa. Its purpose is to communicate as objectively and completely as possible what the university is and what it does. The catalog is presented in sections to give a general view of the university as well as the detailed information required for informed decision making.

Ho Chi Minh And The Vietnamese Struggle For Independence: A Historiographical And Instructional Capstone Project, Nicholas Johnson

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay…………………………....3

II. Bibliography………………………………..27

III. Primary Documents and Headnotes…...28

IV. Textbook Critique…………………………35

V. New Textbook Entry……………………….41

ผลการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ที่มีต่อความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์และผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย, ปรารถนา เสือกลั่น

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงทดลองศึกษาความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ และผลของการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ที่มีต่อความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์และผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียน ดำเนินการวิจัยออกเป็น 2 ระยะ คือ ระยะที่ 1 มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ของนักเรียนใช้วิธีการเก็บข้อมูลเชิงคุณภาพ โดยเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่แบบวัดความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ที่มีค่าความเที่ยง 0.89 การวิจัยระยะที่ 2 เป็นการทดลองเบื้องต้นมีวัตถุประสงค์ (1) เพื่อเปรียบเทียบความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ของนักเรียนระหว่างก่อนและหลังได้รับการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ และ (2) เพื่อเปรียบเทียบผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีของนักเรียนหลังได้รับการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์กับเกณฑ์ กลุ่มเป้าหมายในการวิจัยคือ นักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 5 สังกัดสำนักงานคณะกรรมการส่งเสริมการศึกษาเอกชน เขตบางรัก กรุงเทพมหานคร กำลังศึกษาในภาคเรียนที่ 1 ปีการศึกษา 2563 จำนวน 30 คน เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่ (1) แบบวัดความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ที่มีค่าความเที่ยง 0.89 และ(2) แบบวัดผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมี เรื่อง กฎของแก๊ส ที่มีค่าความเที่ยงเท่ากับ 0.95 วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยค่าเฉลี่ยเลขคณิต ส่วนเบี่ยงมาตรฐาน สถิติทดสอบที (t-test) และกำหนดเกณฑ์ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีโดยใช้คะแนนจุดตัด (Cut-off score) ซึ่งพิจารณาจากสัมประสิทธิ์ฟี (Phi coefficient) ผลการวิจัยสรุปได้ดังนี้ 1. นักเรียนมีคะแนนเฉลี่ยความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์ร้อยละ 27.34 นักเรียนที่มีความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์อยู่ในระดับซับซ้อนบางส่วนสามารถระบุตัวแปรอิสระได้ถูกต้องแต่ยังตั้งคำถามเชิงสาเหตุและตั้งสมมติฐานได้แบบไม่สมบูรณ์ ในขณะที่นักเรียนที่มีความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์อยู่ในระดับซับซ้อนน้อยระบุตัวแปรอิสระไม่ได้ ตั้งคำถามเชิงสาเหตุแบบไม่สมบูรณ์ และตั้งสมมติฐานด้วยประโยคคำถาม 2. หลังเรียนด้วยการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ส่งผลให้นักเรียนมีคะแนนความสามารถในการให้เหตุผลเชิงวิทยาศาสตร์สูงกว่าคะแนนก่อนเรียน อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 3. หลังเรียนด้วยการจัดการเรียนรู้ตามแนวคิดเชิงประวัติศาสตร์ส่งผลให้นักเรียนมีคะแนนผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนเคมีหลังเรียนสูงกว่าเกณฑ์ อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05

Twin Text In The Secondary Social Studies And English Classroom, Sarah Booth Quong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-method study explores the implementation of Twin Text and its effectiveness in the U.S. History and English classrooms with regard to: mastery of the objectives laid out within the course curriculum, perpetuation of deeper learning, and fostering empathy and civic engagement through the use of Twin Text involving tenth and eleventh grade students and United States History and English teachers. The study answers the following questions: (1) What are the experiences of students in a Twin Text setting classroom environment? Three sub questions emerged: (A) In what ways does cross-curriculum teaching with an English Language Arts instructor affect student …

Investigating Nonstandard Southern American English In Written Sources: A Historical Sociolinguistic Approach To The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires, Juliana Norton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe vernacular speech in East Tennessee during the nineteenth-century. This study combines strategies and methodologies from both historical and sociolinguistics to examine dialect in written sources. Specifically, this study utilizes phonological and grammatical data from the Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires supplemented with data from other written sources to describe East Tennessee vernacular speech. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the geographic and social distributions of nonstandard past tense verbs to be and do are analyzed. The findings from this study suggest that nineteenth-century East Tennessee vernacular speech of white men …