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The Effect Of Integrating Explicit Instruction Of Literacy And Numeracy In Cte Technology Business Education On Student Achievement, Lori Canty
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractCareer and Technology Education (CTE) high school students often exhibit difficulty reaching academic proficiency in English Language Arts (ELA) and math. To address this problem, one local school district developed and implemented an integrated curriculum using explicit instruction of literacy and numeracy in CTE business education courses. Guided by Archer and Hughes’s theory of explicit instruction, the purpose of this ex post facto quasi-experimental study was to determine the difference in ELA and math High School Assessment Program (HSAP) standardized test scores between 10th grade CTE business education students who participated in integrated curriculum business courses and students who had …
Lebanese Elementary Teachers' Perceptions About Metacognitive Skills For Students With Learning Disabilities, Tassoula Semaan Bassous
Lebanese Elementary Teachers' Perceptions About Metacognitive Skills For Students With Learning Disabilities, Tassoula Semaan Bassous
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Teachers in Lebanese schools are still using outdated traditional strategies for instructing students with learning disabilities (LD). The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to understand Lebanese elementary teachers' perceived barriers to providing effective metacognition skills instruction and increase the understanding of how teachers are supporting students with LD to use metacognitive strategies to enhance their own learning. The conceptual framework used to ground the study was Flavell's metacognitive theory. The purposeful sample included 12 elementary special and regular education teachers selected from 6 different Lebanese schools in 5 areas in Lebanon. Each teacher participated in a semistructed …