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Difference In Reading Fluency Among Fifth Grade Students Attending Traditional, Stem-Related, Or Dli Programs During Soft School Closures, Patricia Daun Blanton Nov 2021

Difference In Reading Fluency Among Fifth Grade Students Attending Traditional, Stem-Related, Or Dli Programs During Soft School Closures, Patricia Daun Blanton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to raise awareness of the effects of soft school closures on student reading fluency in traditional, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-related, or Dual Language Immersion (DLI) schools. There is little research on which type of school, whether traditional, (STEM)-related, or (DLI) program is the most effective at helping students retain or improve upon their reading fluency once those students have been in an extended soft school closure. The study used Acadience reading fluency scores from the students' fourth grade mid-year scores as the covariate and their fifth grade mid-year scores as …


E-Steam-Ed Individuals: The Significance Of Art In Ste(A)M, Kristen Feigel May 2021

E-Steam-Ed Individuals: The Significance Of Art In Ste(A)M, Kristen Feigel

Goal 4: Intrapersonal Intelligence Narrative

Purpose: To expose students gifted with academic and/or STEM proficiency to the benefits of Art in their education and daily lives. To offer students opportunities to try different types of art to encourage creativity and different ways of thinking.