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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"All Girls"”.
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Effective Practices in Science Instruction in an All Girls School
<p>Girls can be successful in science education depending on their learning environment. This paper studies factors such as curriculum and instructional strategies that facilitate student success in learning science. The problem is that as girls get older, they shy away from science instruction. …
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Understanding student engagement: Insights from an all-girls urban neighborhood public high school
… what student engagement looks like at an all-girls urban neighborhood public high school that is non-selective and where the proacademic choice of students is not a factor. With new federal policy measures advocating innovation in public education, single-sex schools - historically …
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A study of technology integration in an all girls' school: the role of attitudes and beliefs of teachers
… technology rich school environment and potentially suggesting “why or why not” the different levels are observed. Teachers in general nationwide have increased their technology integration and adoption over the past five years, although they still do not have access to technology they need to …
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Cariño, Standards, and the Reinforcement Loop: How Mathematics and Science Teachers Integrate Engineering-Based Learning in the Borderlands at an All-Girls STEAM School
… This comprehensive approach to care was a hallmark of Cariño in education. This study's limitations include its focus on a single STEAM-centric school with ideal conditions for integrating engineering into core subjects, limiting generalizability to schools with different resources, larger …
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Handsome Devil: an exploration of contemporary South African girlhood/s through playwriting
The play is set in an all-girls academy in contemporary South Africa.
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Achievement of boys and girls in single-gender kindergarten classrooms at one elementary school in western Michigan
… in different classroom compositions including all-girls, all-boys, and mixed gender classes.</p> <p>Literacy skills were measured by subtests of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS). Those tests included Letter Naming Fluency, Initial Sound Fluency, Phoneme …
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Developing the Girl as a Leader
… young women who are engaged, active leaders. Girls receive differential treatment in combined-sex education environments. Girls often do not receive the encouragement or instruction to assume leadership. I want to identify the elements of single-sex education that foster female leadership and …
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Understanding Girls' Absence from School in Madhya Pradesh, India: An Investigation
This thesis investigates why all girls of school-going age in rural Madhya Pradesh, India are not in school. Official documents and data from India give the impression that girls' participation in school has improved tremendously in the past decades and India is heading towards achieving the …
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“I Want Them to Feel Nervous”: A Case Study of Embodiment, Affect, and Emotion in Latin Dance Instruction
… her teaching practices within an out-of-school, all-girls Latin dance team. Anchored in the theoretical framework of affect theory, this study investigates how an instructor’s affective presence and embodied knowledge create spaces for emotional exploration, cultural connection, and empowerment …
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A Survey of Senior Girls’ Attitudes Toward the Home Economics Program at Mark Morris Senior High School in Longview, Washington
All girls in the State of Washington are required to take one year of homemaking as ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth graders for high school graduation. As a general rule, students take ninth grade homemaking to get the requirement out of the way. This attitude on the part of students is of …
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Impact Of Single Gender Programs On Achievement, Attendance, Discipline, And Character: A Program Evaluation Project
… permitting public schools to separate boys and girls for academic purposes. The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of single gender education to promote gains in student academic achievement, increase attendance levels, support character development, and decrease student …
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The Integration of Architecture, Site, and Wellbeing: Design Study of a Fitness and Wellness Center at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD
… heightened during the COVID pandemic, challenged the way we think about what it means to be healthy. While many people in recent years have researched well-being as the intersection of physical and mental health, few have explored the role of architecture in spaces with these programs. …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
… popular press. These constructions frame smart girls as being either Losers, Have-It-All Girls, or Imposters. By conducting semi-structured group interviews with six self-identified smart girls, I explore the question of how smart girls perform their smart girl identities in their current …
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Who, What and Why... Subject Choices for Senior Cycle in a Second Level School
… and interviews. The students are from an all girls secondary school, which eliminates gender as a variable in this study. However gender is discussed as a factor in shaping the academic self-image of the student. Similarly, as the school is in a middle class suburb and the students come …
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The effect of alternative assessments in natural science on attitudes towards science in grade 8 girls in South Africa
… interventions would encourage students, especially girls, to continue in the sciences. This study focused on the implementation of an alternative assessment in Natural Science in Grade 8 at an all-girls independent school. Students were given an open-ended questionnaire at the beginning and end …
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College Readiness of Urban High School Students in the United States: The role of Technology in Preparing All Students for College
… for higher education and careers, and how small changes in one urban high school classroom impacted the learning of the students.</p> <p>The subjects of the study were students in a private, all girls’ urban high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. These students participated the initial …
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The role of teacher efficacy and administrative support in teacher retention.
… support, and teacher retention in a small, all-girls Catholic high school. This study examined how a teacher’s individual and collective confidence and administrative instruction support combined to keep teachers from leaving the school. Quantitative data were collected from a sample of …
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Perspectives of physical education from teachers, staff and students in a juvenile justice setting
… experience of teaching physical education in an all girls' juvenile detention center. The use of autoethnography guided this descriptive study through the lived experiences of the physical educator. The data indicated that physical education was often met with roadblocks and detours to …
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An investigation into the integration of digital technology in teacher development for enhanced inclusion
… to enhance inclusion within a South African all-girls school. It explores the intersection of digital tools, inclusive education practices, and teacher agency, employing Margaret Archer's theory of social realism. This study is significant in the context of growing demands for inclusive, …
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Longitudinal study of pubertal peak height velocity and related morphological and functional components in Brazilian children
… group of Brazilian children. The children (18 girls and 26 boys) were from a longitudinal study in Ilhabela, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Measurements, taken twice a year, included anthropometric parameters: weight, height, sitting height, seven skinfold thicknesses $(\Sigma$ of 7 skf), bone diameters …
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