Browsing by Department "Learning, Teaching and Diversity"
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(2014-12-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityIn program evaluation research, measures of realized classroom instruction are often referred to as fidelity measures. Although there is a wide consensus that fidelity measures should be grounded in the program theories ...
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(2010-06-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study synthesizes what is known about strategic reading pedagogy through a meta-analysis of research on multiple comprehension strategies instruction (MCSI) for young adolescents in grades 4-8. The average effect of ...
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(2018-07-16)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityModeling is the central representational and epistemic practice of science (Giere, 1984; Nersessian, 2008) and likewise an essential practice for K12 science learners (Lehrer, 2009; NRC, 2007, 2012). However, images of ...
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(2017-11-22)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThe recent public availability of large-scale datasets, also known as big data, and digital visualization tools has ushered in new ways of telling stories about the social world. The three papers that comprise this ...
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(2017-11-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study explores the necessity and validity of including cultural competence as a dimension of the construct of quality teaching and classroom community. Through an analysis of existing measures, cultural competence ...
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(2017-09-21)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityMy research questions pertain to (1) how Black undergraduate students—who were interested in STEM at college entrance—perceive influences on their choice of a STEM or non-STEM major and (2) to how students’ lived experiences ...
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(2016-01-26)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityLearning theory and educational data analytics can be said to coevolve, that is, to refine and improve each other reciprocally, each aspect providing a necessary element for the growth and advancement of the other. In this ...
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(2015-05-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAn emerging body of research has demonstrated that multimodal composing is a complicated and multifaceted process which involves the coordination of semiotic, material, and interactional resources. This qualitative study ...
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(2014-04-19)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAlthough a large body of research has examined the processes of writing, much less is known about how adolescents compose with multiple modes in digital environments. This qualitative study explores how students collaboratively ...
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(2017-01-09)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityIn recent years, leading educational scholars have argued for computational thinking to be an essential focus of K12 curriculum. Although now incorporated as an essential concept for STEM education, research has shown that ...
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(2015-06-15)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis work contributes to an ongoing conversation about how practice-based teacher education might be designed to support preservice teachers’ professional judgment, particularly in the area of writing instruction. By ...
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(2013-07-02)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation is a grounded theoretical analysis and design study of adults and youth counter-mapping their neighborhoods. Counter-mapping involves residents making claims to resources for the future by leveraging the ...
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(2018-09-18)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityDespite the strong evidence supporting discussion in the classroom, observational studies show that discussion is not a regular part of classroom instruction. This paper examined the changes in the quality of classroom ...
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(2018-03-28)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversitySince the enactment of No Child Left Behind, U.S. education has been dominated by test-based accountability policies and subsequent calls for data-driven decision-making (DDDM). DDDM is often framed as a method for making ...
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(2015-08-18)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study focuses on the learning of preteen children who must repeatedly spend periods of several days or weeks in a hospital setting because they require treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease. Hospitalized ...
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(2016-03-15)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityClinical simulations are a promising approach to preparing preservice teachers for culturally responsive teaching. These simulations use actors to portray the role of students, parents, and coworkers in common problems of ...
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(2014-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis research examines a teacher’s design of a classroom system of multimedia composition, in the form of collaborative video essays, and students’ responses to the teacher’s design. The teacher designed a project in which ...
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(2017-04-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation examines how teachers learn to implement translingual pedagogy in a language arts classroom. I analyze data from a five-week professional development study in which three middle school teachers learned ...
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(2016-07-25)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityPrior research on teacher learning in the context of large-scale instructional reform suggests that it is important to attend to both school and district factors and teacher-level factors when trying to understand variation ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityNew initiatives in computing education call for the integration of computational thinking (CT) across subjects in K-12 schools. At the same time, researchers do not have a strong consensus about what CT is and how it is ...