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The Hom-School, Malik Benjamin

Open Access Theses

During the second half of the 20th century, there was an epic deterioration of the urban fabric of the typical American neighborhood. Starting with the fleeing of city dwellers into the outskirts of suburbia in the 1950s and the exodus of commercial institutions in the 1970s, neighborhood sprawl hit its stride with the elimination of the neighborhood school in the 1980s. With this community-defining component being replaced by giant, remote educational facilities, the American neighborhood was finally a shell of its former self. If the neighborhood represents the cell, then the home represents the nucleus. In 2003, 1.1 million children …

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test. Section 5: 1939-1953 World War Ii And The Rise Of The Cold War, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from section 5 of the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers World War II and the rise of the Cold War from 1939-1953. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

Encouraging And Evaluating The First Year Experience, Kevin Griffin

Other resources

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Manipulative And Visual Model Based Activities For The Algebra One Curriculum, Sara Valancy

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Algebra One can be a very abstract subject that often consists solely of lecture and formulas, and fails to address multiple learning styles. As a result, many students become confused as to when and why to perform a certain operation or apply a formula. Manipulatives and visual models provide a way for algebra to become more approachable to all learning styles and offer a concrete representation of an abstract concept. They give meaning as to why to perform an operation and what the intention of a formula is. The curriculum that was created and compiled for this project was prepared …

Bitter Knowledge: Socrates And Teaching By Disillusionment Appendix C - The Theaetetus, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

It was been suggested (and here I am thinking in particular of comments made by Professor William Prior) that my book, Bitter Knowledge, would benefit from a more comprehensive attention to the argumentative details of the dialogues studied there. Professor Prior specifically suggests that, if we were to be given more of their argumentation, we might better appreciate the motivation or the disposition of the speakers in the dialogues under study.

The book as designed, as submitted in typescript, and as accepted for publication, included three appendices. These appendices comprised detailed outlines of the speakers and events portrayed in, respectively, …

A Preliminary Comparison Of Student Outcomes Between Distanceeducation Modalities And Traditional Campus-Basededucation, Andreas M. Kummerow

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A comparison of student outcomes between a distanceEducation and campus-based is presented. Although there is dynamic growth in distanceEducation, there is little to no data available on learning outcomes aimed specifically at licensed practical nursing/licensed vocational nursing (LPN/LVN) students working toward baccalaureate degrees and registered nursing (RN) licensure. Learning outcomes were evaluated using results from a commercially developed content mastery test taken by students having completed a sophomore level mental health course. Admission criteria required students enrolled in the distanceEducation program to have a current LPN/LVN license while the students used for comparison in a classroom setting did not have …

Identity & Learning : A Zine Project, Dorrie Coman

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Current educational practices and policies erode and ignore student's racial, cultural, socioeconomic, and gender identities forcing students to leave their unique characteristics at the classroom door in order to become socially acceptable. This erosion has many negative implications for students, including lack of motivation and interest in learning, failing, and dropping out. In the project, students created Zines, self-published self-distributed texts that include a variety of formats, mediums, and topics, with the goal of exploring and expressing their identity while meeting content standards. The objectives were to use what students bring into the classroom to motivate them to learn, to …

Fighting Health Issues Through Nutrition Education For Mentally Disabled Adults, Kristin Bean

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Because mentally disabled adults have the ability to make their own choices about food without having adequate knowledge of healthy nutritional habits, many have a high risk of becoming obese or suffering from malnourishment. My capstone addresses the need for nutrition education for mentally disabled adults through a detailed curriculum implemented over a six week period. The curriculum focuses on the Food Pyramid guidelines, understanding food labels, preparing food at home, eating at restaurants, and taking control of one's health through healthy nutritional habits. The components of the curriculum include lesson plans, helpful resource materials, worksheets, discussion topics, handouts, and …

Educators! : Physically Challenged Students Want To Have Fun, Juan Gonzales-Medina

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This project focuses on bringing awareness among educators on the issues concerning schooling elementary (k- 5) students with physical disabilities. This is achieved through the creation of a friendly workshop, where educators are presented with information on understanding their students' unique needs and how to help them succeed inside the classroom. The workshop contains five different components: a presentation, informative video, instructional activities, and discussions, along with two surveys. Furthermore, each aspect of the workshop inserts other educators' opinions throughout the entire presentation. In other words, educators are able to learn from each other rather than just listening to the …

Bitter Knowledge: Socrates And Teaching By Disillusionment Appendix B - The Meno, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

It was been suggested (and here I am thinking in particular of comments made by Professor William Prior) that my book, Bitter Knowledge, would benefit from a more comprehensive attention to the argumentative details of the dialogues studied there. Professor Prior specifically suggests that, if we were to be given more of their argumentation, we might better appreciate the motivation or the disposition of the speakers in the dialogues under study.

The book as designed, as submitted in typescript, and as accepted for publication, included three appendices. These appendices comprised detailed outlines of the speakers and events portrayed in, respectively, …

Bitter Knowledge: Socrates And Teaching By Disillusionment Appendix A - The Protagoras, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

It was been suggested (and here I am thinking in particular of comments made by Professor William Prior) that my book, Bitter Knowledge, would benefit from a more comprehensive attention to the argumentative details of the dialogues studied there. Professor Prior specifically suggests that, if we were to be given more of their argumentation, we might better appreciate the motivation or the disposition of the speakers in the dialogues under study.

The book as designed, as submitted in typescript, and as accepted for publication, included three appendices. These appendices comprised detailed outlines of the speakers and events portrayed in, respectively, …

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers topics in American history from the Enlightenment to the Modern Era, 1700-2009. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test. Section 2: 1890-1920 Industrialization And Imperialism, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from section 2 of the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers Industrialization and Imperialism from 1890-1920. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

Creating A Warm And Inclusive Classroom Environment: Planning For All Children To Feel Welcome, Jessica L. Bucholz Ed.D., Julie L. Sheffler

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

The type of classroom environment that a teacher creates and encourages can either increase or decrease a student's ability to learn and feel comfortable as a member of the class. The classroom environment should do as much to foster cooperation and acceptance as the teaching methods that the teacher uses. This article describes a number of methods to help teachers plan for and create a classroom that welcomes and supports all children.

Language Module, April Dixon

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

A study of children with learning disabilities and of children without provides a clear picture of the acquisition of language development of children. Language skills are generally typical of children at different age levels who do not have diagnosed learning disabilities. Language skills of the learning disabled are generally atypical due to constraints placed on the child during critical learning periods by the disability. Analyzation of the data in this study shows a correlation between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and language development in young children. Strategies can be implemented by classroom teachers to enhance the acquisition of language.

Teacher Perception Of The Critical Elements Of Effective Professional Development In Marion County, Indiana, Matthew Joseph Prusiecki

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the field ofEducation, the function of professional development is to improve the quality of teaching. Through many different strategies, methods and practices, teachers, administrators and school corporations have used professional development as a means to an end—to improve student learning. Whether that is achieved on a short-term basis, long term basis, or not at all, millions of dollars and countless hours are dedicated on an annual basis for the training of teachers. How to improve or ensure effective professional development has historically been a topic of debate. Asking the actual practitioners of the field, teachers themselves, what they feel …

Novel Word Learning Of Children With Hearing Impairment And Children With Typical Hearing, Matthew R. Clark

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Children with hearing impairment may be at risk for reading difficulty due, in part, to delayed vocabulary development. However, advances in amplification technology, most notably cochlear implant technology, make it possible for children with profound hearing loss to acquire oral language. This study asked if novel word learning differed between children with typical hearing and those with severe to profound hearing loss who either wore hearing aids or had cochlear implants. Children learned nonsense words as names for Beanie Babies during a play scenario and were later asked to identify and name each Beanie Baby using its correct nonsense word …

The Bride Is Keeping Her Name: A 35-Year Retrospective Analysis Of Trends And Correlates, Richard E. Kopelman, Rita Shea-Van Fossen, Eletherios Paraskevas, Leanna Lawter, David J. Prottas

HCBE Faculty Articles

We used data obtained from wedding announcements in the New York Times newspaper from 1971 through 2005 (N = 2,400) to test 9 hypotheses related to brides’ decisions to change or retain their maiden names upon marriage. As predicted, a trend was found in brides keeping their surname, and correlates included the bride’s occupation, education, age, and the type of ceremony (religious versus nonsectarian). Partial support was found for the following correlates: officiants representing different religions, brides with one or both parents deceased, and brides whose parents had divorced or separated. There was mixed support for the hypothesis that a …

Development Of The Curriculum For The Introduction To Computer Science Course, Nancy Major

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This project proposes to reformat the curriculum for an Introduction to Computer Science course for high school students, currently taught as a one semester course. Several issues with the current course are addressed with recommendations for changes intended for the benefit of students at their school. In the past five years, enrollment in the school's Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science course has decreased from 50 students to 25 students despite no significant change in overall enrollment or student demographics. For the portion of those students enrolled in the course who have taken the Advanced Placement exam during the past four …

Catholic Schools And Student Academic Performance;Does The Urban Catholic School Experience Mitigate Ethnoracial Disparity?, Lanny K. (Lanny Keith) Hollis

ETD Archive

This study examined an inner-city Catholic high school to ascertain the possible existence of an achievement gap. Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses examined academic indicators (GPA and Math and Science OGT results) and demographic and school variables. Students (258 Black, 101 White, and 55 Hispanic) completed questionnaires, which were matched with school data and confirmatory alumni focus groups. Analyses revealed no significant differences (ANOVA) among academic indicator means. Correlations were found between academic indicators and length of Catholic education, good behavior, extracurricular participation, high-school-graduation-oriented peers, and teacher caring scores. Regression models found positive student behavior, peers, female gender, extracurricular …

The Case For Participatory Education, Stephen Thornton-Taylor

ETD Archive

Participatory learning or "Participatory Education" as a formal declaration of either ideology or praxis has yet to be written and I would certainly not attempt to write one in the current educational capacity I now find myself in however I have found myself in the unique position of actually being first to something and so have decided to enjoin the relatively scant sketches of, as far as the great blade of written history is concerned, cutting edge economic philosophy with the over-personal, absolutely singular experience of a student-teacher in Cleveland, Ohio. The principles of Participatory Education are adapted from the …

Van Duyn V. Baker School District: A "Material" Improvement In Evaluating A School District's Failure To Implement Individualized Education Programs, David G. King

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

This Case Note of explores the standards courts use when evaluating a school district's failure to implement a student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In , the Ninth Circuit held that only "material" failures to implement constitute a deprivation of Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Note first begins with a discussion of the right to FAPE under the IDEA and how the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of FAPE in . It then examines the many different standards federal courts have used to evaluate implementation failures, including requiring the failure to involve …

Out On A Limb--Forest Canopies Science And Environmental Education Utilizing A Traveling Exhibit, Zachary Evers

Theses & ETDs

Environmental and Science education is of the utmost importance to the health and longevity of our forests and the natural world. This environmental education thesis is on informing the public about science and the environment through the use of the "Out on a Limb -- Forest Canopies" exhibit and analyzing the effectiveness of its impact. "Out on a Limb -- Forest Canopies" is a science education exhibit developed to educate people about the forest canopies and illustrate the challenges of canopy access by scientists. A traveling rain forest diorama, touch screen information kiosk, and mock canopy walkway will circulate venues …

Improving Student Retention Of Future Members Of The Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, And Business Workforce, Samuel L. Rohr

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

ThisDissertation examined the relationship between various admissions selection criteria utilized by a small, Liberal Arts College in the Midwest. More specifically, the study examined if a higher college preparatory GPA, a higher aggregate score on the SAT, attending a larger high school, and beginning college at an older age helped predict the retention of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and business students. Data was gathered using historical enrollment data of 803 students. A logistic regression analysis was utilized to examine the impact of the four variables on retention of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and business students. College preparatory GPA, the aggregate …

Moving Heaven And Earth: Administrative Search And Selection Processes And The Experience Of An African American Woman Senior Administrator, Kim R. Barnett-Johnson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this case/phenomenological study was to examine a collegiate administrative search and selection process and the experience of an African American woman who was selected to the position of chancellor. A case concerning the search process of a regional campus of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana was identified and chosen. In-depth interviews were conducted with three participants in the search and selection process. Each individual played a significant and separate role during various phases of the search and selection process. Results indicated that there were four key themes to emerge from the investigation: diversity issues; the search …

Teach The Children: Education And Knowledge In Recent Children's Fantasy, Elisabeth Rose Gruner

English Faculty Publications

This essay is an investigation into how learning is portrayed in children's books. It starts from two premises: first, that at least one origin of children's literature is in didacticism, and that learning and pedagogy continue to be important in much of the literature we provide for children today. Thus, for example, David Rudd claims that most histories of children's literature on "the tension between instruction and entertainment," and that the genre as we know it develops within, among other things, "an educational system promoting literacy" (29, 34). Seth Lerer's recent Children's Literature: A Reader's History similarly traces the origins …

Pages News, Volume 17, No. 1, January 2009, Julie Brigham-Grette, Ross Powell, Louise Newman

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Change at the Poles: A Paleoscience Perspective -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- PAGES OSM and YSM announcement -- Science Highlights: Open Section -- Data portal for transient paleoclimate simulations covering the last 21 kyr -- Teleconnections during glacial terminations associated with ENSO-like variability -- Accurate dating of Gallipoli Terrace sediments: Historical eruptions and climate -- Special Section: Change at the Poles: A Paleoscience Perspective -- Science Highlights -- 2000 years of climate variability inferred from Arctic lake sediments -- Holocene paleoclimate of the Canadian Arctic Islands: The ACVAST project -- …

Ohio Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program: A Comprehensive Policy Analysis, Andrew J. Hill

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Relationship Between Student Achievement And Use Of Power Videos Digital Educational Videos, Rick Sorrells

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test. Section 4: 1920-1941 The Roaring Twenties And Great Depression, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from section 4 of the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers the roaring twenties and great depression from 1920-1941. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.