Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Teaching and Learning"
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(2013-09-30)Department: Teaching and LearningIn this dissertation, I drew on analytical frames found in genre theory to examine digital storytelling as a cultural practice with historically developed genre features, practices, and structures. A central concern was ...
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(2007-12-27)Department: Teaching and LearningTEACHING AND LEARNING ACCOUTING FOR AGENCY IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS: UNDERSTANDING TEACHERS’ USE OF REFORM CURRICULUM ERIK WILLIAM BOWEN Thesis under the direction of Professor Kay McClain This study provides analysis ...
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(2007-07-31)Department: Teaching and LearningThe purpose of this study was to assess the effects of three instructional media on learning among adults in developing countries. Participants included 90 women from Central and South America randomly assigned to one of ...
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(2005-07-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study analyzes the development of statistical reasoning during several mathematics classes of an intact fourth-grade classroom. The teacher and her students were members of a multi-year teacher-researcher collaborative ...
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(2005-07-24)Department: Teaching and LearningThe purpose of this dissertation was to document the development of a professional teaching community and the means of supporting its emergence and concurrent learning as situated in the institutional context of the school ...
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(2005-07-18)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study explores the complex relationship between teachers’ understandings of mathematics and their classroom practices. The study details students’ engagement in a segment of a university course designed to position ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningAbstract This dissertation study focuses on children’s development of causal mechanistic reasoning (Machamer, Darden, & Craver, 2000; Russ, Scherr, Hammer, & Mikeska, 2009; Shultz, 1982) in the area of simple mechanics. ...
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(2009-07-08)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation represents an attempt to uncover, understand, and unmake the structure of racism and its place in Master Narratives of education. This dissertation presents a counter-narrative to Master Narratives of ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation presents the first iteration of a design study that investigates an instructional setting that I call Walking Scale Geometry (WSG). WSG tasks are geometry problems that are meant to be solved at very large ...
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(2008-04-22)Department: Teaching and LearningThis micro-ethnographic research project examines discussions of "race" among African American secondary students. More specifically, this project focuses on how "race" is constituted in school settings, and the ways in ...
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(2012-04-16)Department: Teaching and LearningBased on a synthesis of prior research, this study proposes a three dimensional framework to describe the cognitive achievements important for understanding area measurement in upper elementary school years (grade 4-6). ...
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(2012-12-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis dissertation presents the results of a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of peer-mediated learning for English Language Learners(ELLs). The sample included 44 independent studies reporting five distinct outcome types, ...
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Enactive Modeling as a Catalyst for Conceptual Understanding: An Example with a Circuit Simulation (2006-07-27)Department: Teaching and LearningThis research explored how allowing students to actively control an electrical circuit simulation in real-time helps them better understand the complex behavior of electrical circuits. Many students, even at the college ...
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(2012-09-25)Department: Teaching and LearningActor Network Theory (ANT) is invoked in order to characterize the performance of objects in demonstrations around representational forms, examples of which include tables, equations, graphs, and embodied, “narrative ...
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(2010-09-17)Department: Teaching and LearningIn this dissertation, I report an analysis of the relationship between student outcomes and fidelity of implementation of Math Recovery, an unscripted, pullout, tutoring program intended to increase the mathematics achievement ...
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(2012-04-16)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study aimed to investigate the influences that impact in-service teachers of ELLs’ professional development decisions. In this dissertation, I followed the work of four in-service ELL teachers in two different school ...
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(2012-07-24)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study described instructional and emotional classroom environments, as well as the learning engagement of children involved in various classroom tasks, and explored whether variability in children’s classroom experiences ...
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(2004-07-26)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study explores the reasoning that emerged among eight high school juniors and seniors as they participated in a classroom teaching experiment addressing stochastic conceptions of sampling and statistical inference. ...
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(2014-06-20)Department: Teaching and LearningTeaching, Learning, and Diversity Language as an Identification Resource in Secondary English Teacher Preparation: An Analysis of Discourses Frank Blake Tenore Dissertation under the direction of Professors Kevin M. ...
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(2003-11-25)Department: Teaching and LearningAlthough prior research as shown that generating explanations encourages students to learn new content with deeper understanding and to monitor their own comprehension more effectively, helping students learn how to explain ...