Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Learning, Teaching & Diversity"
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(2020-08-18)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAlthough extensive research has focused on young children’s writing and identified the importance of early writing experiences, there is a limited amount of writing occurring in some early childhood classrooms. Furthermore, ...
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(2024-03-06)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn today’s digitally interconnected world, one’s ability to collaboratively create with others and compose multimodal texts is essential. Yet, high-stakes standardized assessments that value individualistic print centric ...
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(2020-07-13)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityMany schools and districts are implementing one-on-one coaching as a strategy for supporting mathematics teachers in improving their instructional practices. While some studies have found that one-on-one coaching can support ...
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(2020-04-15)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAs practice-based teacher education (PBTE) has become more prevalent, debates about its effectiveness have emerged. One side emphasizes the utility of core practices while another suggests that core practices are contrary ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAcross three studies and empirical papers, this dissertation focuses on the ways embodied, choreographic sensemaking practices can expand the means and ends of STEM learning with respect to mathematics and computation. ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityWithin this dissertation, I use design-based research along with discourse and interaction analysis to study classroom groups of mathematical learners to better understand and design for group structures and cultures that ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityArtificial Intelligence (AI) has become an everyday presence in our lives, including in our literacy practices, but is still not the subject of instruction for many students. In this dissertation, I explore using a critical ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityDual Language Immersion (DLI) language education programs are complex spaces that have the potential to support greater educational equity. However, achieving this potential requires DLI teachers who are prepared to disrupt ...
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(2024-03-22)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis is an empirical, ethnographic study about middle school students’ mathematical joy in a formal math classroom. This study is situated in a year-long Research Practice Partnership with 6th grade mathematics teacher and ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education across the country, requiring a quick re-organization of instruction on a large scale and changing the nature of teaching and learning for years to come. In this ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityDual language (DL) programs have become increasingly popular in the US over the last decade, particularly among higher-income, predominantly English-speaking populations. While there is concern that this increased demand ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityEffective language practices are crucial for children's oral language and reading development in early childhood education (ECE), yet they are often underutilized in pre-K classrooms. Published curricula provide a potential ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityPervasive beliefs that mathematics is race-neutral inhibit faculty awareness of and responsiveness to racial issues in postsecondary mathematics departments. However, research inquiries exploring mathematics content and ...
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(2022-05-26)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityFrom a teacher’s perspective, teacher learning happens through a complex web of learning experiences. However, research on teacher professional development (PD) typically focuses on the direct influence of single activities ...
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(2023-01-11)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityFor years, educators have championed numerous strategies for supporting marginalized students in U.S. schools. Recently, researchers have identified racial matching—ensuring teachers of color work with students of similar ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityInstruction that centers and develops students’ agency supports academic and social-emotional success, yet educators increasingly teach in settings that restrict their opportunities to design such instruction. Agency-supportive ...
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(2023-11-14)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityThis three-paper dissertation explores the teaching of dramatic improvisation (“improv”)—either improv itself, or improv integrated with other instructional goals—in three different contexts: in an after-school program at ...
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(2021-10-12)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityIn recent years, education scholars have argued that we should be working to expand students' experiences of what counts in and as disciplinary knowledge building. Much of this work in schools focuses on the knowledge ...
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(2020-10-29)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityOver the past decade, teachers in the United States have felt an increase in the linguistic demands of the classroom due to three fundamental shifts: the curricular, the demographic, and the critical. The language demands ...
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(2020-03-05)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityWord knowledge is crucial for the comprehension of oral language and written text. Consequently, children’s word knowledge at school entry affects later reading and academic success (Catts, Hogan, & Fey, 2003; Dickinson, ...