Browsing by Author "Viruru, Radhika"
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Berthold, David Arthur (2018-11-05)This one-group pretest-posttest action research study of 2017–2018 eighth-grade students at a Pre-K through 12th grade independent school in Houston, Texas, will present information related to student anxiety during the ...
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Ates, Burcu (2010-01-16)The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the perceptions of preservice teachers toward native and nonnative English speaking (NES and NNES) graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in English as a second language ...
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Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Among Latinx Students Al Aqra, Maram H. (2023-07-20)My purpose of this dissertation was to study and document how we could increase the interest and involvement of Underrepresented Minority (URM) students in STEM fields. I conducted three research studies. The purpose of ...
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Garza, Metari S. (2022-04-13)There is a lack of understanding of how implicit bias in VHA healthcare providers affects the delivery of healthcare services to African American Veterans thus leading to health disparities in this population. Specifically, ...
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Shin, Jee Young (2012-07-16)The purpose of this research was to examine the ways in which Korean families of English Language Learners (ELLs) and teachers supported literacy in young children, as well as the kinds of interactions between families and ...
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Davis, Sarah Lynne (2015-12-07)This study examined the relationship between administrators and parents at a high-performing elementary school in Virginia over the course of an academic year. The school has a population of parents who expect and require ...
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Goldbaum, Elana Rebecca (2022-07-27)Difficult knowledge refers to information with the potential to stir a range of emotional reactions and can include racism, genocide, social hatreds, as well as learning about traumatic events in history. Educators need ...
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Zimmer, Wendi Kamman (2019-01-09)In this study, I hypothesize that various factors impact teachers’ digital learning identity (DLI). Such factors include; (1) instruction, (2) experience, and/or (3) application. As learning identity relates to perception ...
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Persky, Julia Christine (2018-11-21)Children in early childhood and elementary classrooms are often marginalized due to a variety of identity markers, which create borders within learning spaces and limit access to social and academic success. Students who ...
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Davenport, Jacklyn C (2022-11-28)Many students across the US, specifically in Texas, struggle with writing on grade level. On the last National Assessment of Educational Progress (2012), 70% of eighth- and twelfth-grade students were not writing on grade ...
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Evans, Russell Thomas (2020-03-10)This study will seek to investigate learned levels of student social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies, improvements made to overall school climate as measured through teacher behavior responses and ensuring that the ...
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Chen, Xi (2011-08-08)The purpose of this study is to examine prospective mathematics teachers' knowledge development and beliefs changes for teaching fraction division through the undergraduate mathematics method course to the field practice. ...
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Ashmeade, Lisa Ann (2016-11-30)This record of study examines the relationship between certified staff personnel perception of digital citizenship and the impact upon professional development. Quantitative and qualitative data was used to examine responses ...
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Hogan, Kathy Marie (2014-05-07)This multiple-article dissertation examined secondary data collected by an educational service center in a large area of southeast Texas to analyze the similarities and differences in writing practices of prekindergarten ...
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Salinas, John Eric (2020-05-14)Teachers are influential when it comes to improving students’ academic success, and teacher leadership is the foundation of these efforts as it is based on the ability to communicate meaningful information and build ...
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The teacher's body: discourse, power and discipline in the history of the feminization of teaching Saavedra, Cinthya Michelle (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Historical studies of the feminization of teaching have provided important additions to feminist understandings of teaching and education in general. However, most historical accounts of the feminization of teaching have ...
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Flores, Penelope Wyma (2021-06-22)This Record of Study evaluated teachers’ perceptions of the impact Social Emotional Learning (SEL) can have on student behaviors and how teachers’ belief systems relate to their implementation of SEL within their classrooms. ...
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Jackson, Sharon Rodgers (2019-12-10)The purpose of this study was to observe Head Start classrooms in public schools to examine differences among instructional practices by teaching staff and whether these practices were related to student outcomes in their ...
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Powers, Scott Kenneth (2014-07-11)Project-based learning (PBL) is a constructivist approach to instruction in which students are challenged to address a problem without sufficient knowledge at the outset to solve the problem. PBL models generally include ...
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Ditoro, Timothy Paul (2020-05-29)Foreign language courses that are delivered at a distance using synchronous video tend to be more instructor centered than learner centered. Based on literature indicating that foreign language learning occurs when learners ...