Browsing by Department "Learning, Teaching and Diversity"
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(2013-09-30)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAccumulating evidence from research indicates that input from teachers, measured at the utterance level, may positively impact children’s language and vocabulary growth. To date, few studies have investigated teachers’ ...
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(2017-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAs efforts are made in pre-kindergarten settings to design and model high quality programs, there is a growing need to attend to the aspects of the local context that may influence the ways that teachers and staff make ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityIn recent years, the field of science education has called for classroom instruction to be organized around engaging students in scientific practices, such as modeling. However, model-based instruction is often hindered ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityScience education is increasingly organized around engaging students in scientific practices, positioning them as makers of knowledge. However, there is significant uncertainty both about how to initiate students into these ...
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(2018-04-10)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe three papers in this dissertation contribute to research that seeks to characterize the complex and multi-dimensional relation between the physical environment and human learning. The first paper outlines a new approach ...
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(2013-09-04)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study investigated the teaching and learning of the interpretation and production of thematic maps and map argument performances with young people. Research was conducted across three phases: (a) collection and analysis ...
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Investigating and Improving Designs for Supporting Professional Development Facilitators’ Learning (2015-07-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation reports on a retrospective analysis of a design study conducted in partnership between researchers and the leaders of a large U.S. urban district to investigate and support the development of professional ...
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(2014-08-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityRecently, the field of science education has advocated for systematic explorations of the affordances of an integrated STEM education. Accordingly, in this three-paper dissertation I investigate how students build conceptual ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversitySeveral studies have identified positive relationships between strong principal instructional leadership and improved student outcomes. However, few researchers have examined how principals influence the nature of ...
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(2016-07-28)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityFor the past decade science education has increasingly advocated for student participation in the practice of science. However, current representations of scientific practice often under-represent and under-theorize the ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis research examines the digital communication and composing practices of a group of preschoolers with touchscreen tablets. Four year-old children were invited to take on the role of digital composer as they used an ...
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(2019-07-19)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityOur current understanding of mathematical engagement lacks nuance as it is built primarily out of what we see in schools and neglects the mathematics of mathematicians and of children in out-of-school mathematics spaces. ...
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(2010-08-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe following multi-paper dissertation addresses issues of effectiveness and implementation inherent in preschool curriculum interventions. This document consists of an overview of challenges faced by educational researchers ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAlthough making digital media involves movements of bodies, materials, and, often, mobile technologies, most literacy research on adolescents’ experiences with digital media relies on screened and sedentary perspectives ...
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(2015-05-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation describes the design of an informal, a media-rich learning space for youth in a public library. It details how youth transformed—or made—that space into a place for themselves. As such, this dissertation ...
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(2013-12-04)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe study was designed using a multiple case study approach in which four middle school teachers engaged in a form of coaching based on Habermas' and Mezirow’s learning theories. Each participant examined their vision of ...
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Students’ framing of a digital physics videogame as seen in student discourse and post-gameplay data (2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityA qualitative and quantitative study that give insight into students’ framing of digital physics video game environments is presented in this thesis. A qualitative pilot study is explained followed by a follow-up interview ...
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(2016-07-24)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityGiven the difficulty in learning teaching that aims for the ambitious student learning goals prescribed in current standards documents, supports are needed in order to develop and sustain teachers’ enactment of ambitious ...
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(2019-10-07)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityEarly narrative proficiency is of central importance to literacy and academic achievement. Book reading and play are widely considered to be rich narrative learning experiences, however, the mechanisms by which adult-supported ...
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(2017-10-16)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThough researchers and policymakers have called for an increase in text complexity in reading instruction, little research exists on whether scaffolding can support students reading complex texts, and almost no research ...