Browsing Peabody College by Title
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(2020-12)Postdoctoral (postdoc) positions in mathematics are understood as factors influencing the achievement of mathematics faculty research positions at PhD granting institutions. This capstone study demonstrates that over the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-03-31)This paper examines the current research and theories concerning service-learning and its potential as an effective instructional strategy in middle school social studies classrooms. Traditional social studies classrooms ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-03-01)
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(2021-04-28)Sustainable student enrollment is vital to a charter school’s economic and organizational performance. It is a metric that drives countless decisions. Charter schools use various techniques to recruit and retain students. ...
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(2023-08)In partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce in Saudi Arabia (AmCham), the goal of this project is to diagnose the drivers of expatriate cultural adaptation in Saudi Arabia, with a particular focus on the contextual ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)The goal of this project is to evaluate the merits of implementing integrated instruction at the elementary level. A particular focus is the use of social studies concepts to organize integrated instruction around significant ...
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(2021-08-09)This quality improvement plan explores the adjunct faculty experience at the McDonough School of Business (MSB) at Georgetown University. At present, adjunct faculty participation is low in anything outside teaching their ...
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(2021-08-08)The Laundromat Project (The LP) is an arts-based non-profit organization that is deeply committed to providing professional development and leadership training opportunities for their staff members. However, leadership ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-04)
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(2020-07)This study sought to understand instructional staff perspectives on professional development that was provided or facilitated by the organization and the ways in which school leaders at the site planned for and managed ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03)For my capstone experience, I designed a project-based learning (PBL) unit for implementation as an after-school enrichment program in an urban, low-income girls’ public school in Karachi, Pakistan, specifically, Government ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)Inequity in achievement and opportunities to learn mathematics among different subpopulations of students permeate every level of the United States education system: national, local, school, and even individual classrooms. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-14)This paper provides the rationale underlying the integrated reading-history unit I have created in fulfillment of my Capstone requirements. I begin by calling for the incorporation of any of the content areas into the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-29)The purpose of this paper is to argue for the implementation of an education program that is effective at preventing mental disorders and promoting mental wellness. This interdisciplinary paper between the fields of ...
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(2022-08)Education Development Center (EDC), headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a non-profit organization founded in 1958 that serves communities both domestically and internationally. The health promotion, practice, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)The purpose of this essay is to identify criteria within curricula that contribute to providing equitable education and to analyze and evaluate one curriculum based on these criteria. I first describe school-based factors ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)This paper explores the issue of tracking and equity in urban schools. Implications for detracking as well as differentiation are given as possible solutions to the growing gap between our highest and lowest performing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07)While many ideas abound in the literature about what effective mathematics instruction entails, procedural instruction still dominates in United States mathematics classrooms. Many math teachers seem to have a natural ...
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(2022-1)This capstone project explores the goals and practices of CAI’s job readiness training (JRT) function within their Austims2Work (A2W) initiative. The primary purpose of this capstone project is to examine the goals of the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-06-01)This paper serves two purpose: First, it explores existing research on queering family engagement, and secondly, it describes two potential resources that have been created as part of a holistic approach to queering family ...