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Digging Into Your Passion: A School Improvement Plan, Isaac Ryan Heard
Digging Into Your Passion: A School Improvement Plan, Isaac Ryan Heard
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
To help bring choice into a student's learning environment, educators need to find ways to add time into school's daily and weekly schedule. Genius Hour and passion clubs are two ways that allow for students to ask questions and seek answers through project-based learning while utilizing the core skills in each content area. The problem is that the option for having choices is missing from the middle school curriculum. The purpose of this school improvement plan is to create a hybrid of in-school and after-school clubs that provide students an opportunity to dig into their passions while expanding upon their …
Tier Ii Interventions: Utilizing An Interventionist At The Secondary Level, Sarah Ham
Tier Ii Interventions: Utilizing An Interventionist At The Secondary Level, Sarah Ham
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
The purpose of this action research was to determine the impact of an interventionist conducting Tier II interventions on student achievement. The research setting was a high school English language arts classroom in Iowa where the participants included 58 ninth-grade students. In previous years, interventions were taught by the ELA teacher in the classroom; this action research dictated that an interventionist teach the Tier II intervention lesson to non-proficient students during class. Quantitative data from these participants was collected to assess the impact of an interventionist on student achievement in two reading skills: identifying the main idea and summarizing. Assessment …
The Effect Of Interleaved Practice In A High School Chemistry Class, Alex Herrington
The Effect Of Interleaved Practice In A High School Chemistry Class, Alex Herrington
Master's Theses & Capstone Projects
Determining practices to produce optimal learning outcomes is a foundational objective for educators. Recent publications have identified the importance of practice sequencing structures (blocked vs interleaved) on learning. While this information has significant value for education, few studies have been conducted in authentic educational environments. This action research involved high school chemistry students (n=25) completing a practice assignment covering mole-mass conversions. One group practiced these problems in a blocked organization while the other was interleaved. Immediately following this assignment, students noted their completion time and rated their perceived difficulty. Three days later, students were given an unannounced interleaved assessment of …