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From Assertion To Conversion: Classroom Management For 21st Century Teachers, Benjamin Halbkat
From Assertion To Conversion: Classroom Management For 21st Century Teachers, Benjamin Halbkat
Empowering Research for Educators
The following position paper provides a new teacher's perspective on modern classroom management. Where is there room for improvement? What might the future hold?
Examining Student Achievement And Motivation Using Internet-Based Inquiry In The Classroom, Julie M. Lokie
Examining Student Achievement And Motivation Using Internet-Based Inquiry In The Classroom, Julie M. Lokie
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of the pilot study was to compare middle school Family and Consumer Science student achievement and motivation in a classroom using Internet based inquiry to the achievement and motivation of students without the use of Internet based inquiry. The control group had 37 students and the experimental group had 21 students participate in the study. Each group was taught a two-week lesson on child growth and development. The control group was taught with a conventional, teacher-directed, method using textbooks and worksheets. The experimental group was taught with computers and an Internet based inquiry method. Students in each group …
Identifying Motivations To Encourage Women To Adopt Positive Financial Behaviors, Megan E. Rowley
Identifying Motivations To Encourage Women To Adopt Positive Financial Behaviors, Megan E. Rowley
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Seventeen women between the ages of 25 and 54 who self-identified as having made a positive financial change within the past two years were interviewed in four focus groups. Participants were asked to identify their motivations for financial behavior change.
The analysis of this research data indicated the participants in this study progressed through the stages of change in Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model while making personal financial changes. Factors such as emotion, family influence, and life transition helped many women move from earlier stages (Precontemplation, Contemplation) to later stages (Preparation, Action) of change. Although participants utilized a wide variety of first …