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Final Ma Portfolio, Lisa Foster Dec 2018

Final Ma Portfolio, Lisa Foster

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This project fulfills my graduation requirement. It contains a research paper as well as three pedagogical papers.


Final Ma Portfolio, Stefanie Lauer May 2018

Final Ma Portfolio, Stefanie Lauer

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This is the final master's portfolio for my degree in English with a specialization in English teaching. It includes four works from my time in my master's courses, ranging from school safety to lesson plans to research on the teaching of English.


Impact Of Literacy On Student Readiness In Math And Science Classroom, Mackenzie Alexandra Rittner Apr 2018

Impact Of Literacy On Student Readiness In Math And Science Classroom, Mackenzie Alexandra Rittner

Honors Projects

Lack of literacy, specifically disciplinary literacy, is an epidemic in education today. Here, I will illustrate how this problem presents itself in our student’s reading every day in every class. Within a literature review, many accounts are detailed about the impact literacy has on a student’s educational career. From the outset, literacy is a key factor in a student’s success in school. A research study was conducted that asked students to give varied definitions of the word ‘volume’ based on prior experience. These results showed that direct instruction in how a word can change based on its context had an …