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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Artifact analysis"”.
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Congruence and Misrecognition: A Case Study of Teaching Assistants' Perceived Commentary Roles and Actual Commentary Practices in First-Year English
… research methods—semi-structured interviews and artifact analysis—to analyze the perceived commentary roles and actual commentary practices of five teaching assistants at my university. My study reveals two categories of TA commentary roles and practices: congruence and misrecognition. Teaching …
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Effective design of online intercultural exchanges among successful EFL teachers in Slovakia
… online survey, semi-structured interviews, and artifact analysis. The key findings of this study demonstrate that Slovak EFL teachers engage in OIEs to develop their learners’ intercultural competence and to collaborate with other European teachers despite the time-consuming nature of the OIEs. …
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Teaching Politics: A Study of High School Government Courses and the 2008 Presidential Election
… formal interviews with teachers and students, artifact analysis, and student surveys. Based on these data sources, I discovered that the inclusion of political events and methods for teaching politics is far from universal and can vary based on the environment in which students receive their …
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HOW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT ONE CULTURAL INSTITUTION AFFECTS PARTICIPANTS’ THINKING ABOUT THE TEACHING OF HISTORY
… participated in the study. Through an artifact analysis, field notes, interviews, dilemma analysis, and lesson plans, the study asks two questions: (1) What characterizes the approaches to professional development at one cultural institution, and how do teachers respond to that …
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A Study of the Ceramics at the Ebert Canebrake Site (1MC25)
… these materials on site is examined through an artifact analysis based upon stratified samples recovered from the 2012 excavation at the site and a 1997 program of auger testing. Sand tempered vessels were made on-site for their full occupational history, while the relative frequency of shell …
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A Qualitative Study of the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals during Formal and Informal School-Based Interactions
… teachers, and key peers, as well as a localized artifact analysis. Findings suggested that the emergent bilinguals unique backgrounds contributed to their variable reflexive positioning, as well as teachers' variable interactional positioning. Additionally, peer positioning and institutional …
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Factors That Shaped Differentiation for Gifted Students in One Elementary Classroom
… short check-ins, email conversations, document/artifact analysis, and member checking. The results of the study showed an overarching theme: The Teacher's Preservice Education Program, and three themes: The Pedagogical Content Factor: Differentiation and Gifted Pedagogy, The Student-Centered …
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Rainbow Promises, Uneven Promises: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education
… were collected through interviews, document and artifact analysis, and observations, with analysis that used a multi-phased coding procedure.</p> <p>Findings revealed that policy implementation is mediated across multiple system levels and shaped by five key themes: policy mediation at the …
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Tomol's and the "carrying of many people": Indigenous control of the sea in the Santa Barbara Channel
… remains of vessels themselves if identified, artifactual remains of tools necessary to build tomol's as well as the tools used in gathering maritime resources, along with historic and ethnographic records of tomol construction and usage. Finally, it is hoped that this thesis will inspire …
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Dynamic Bilingualism Within School Counselors Who Were Former Bilingual Teachers: Language Choices and Language Ideological Stances
… Data was collected through interviews, artifact analysis, member checks, and analytical memos with a total of ten participants. The study revealed the majority of participants, seven out of ten, maintain a dynamic bilingualism ideological stance that is evident in their delivery of the …
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Analysis of artifacts from four Duke Point area sites, near Nanaimo, B.C. : an example of cultural continuity in the southern Gulf of Georgia region
… a large volume of cultural material. Complete artifact analysis, supplemented with partial soils, fauna!, burial, and pollen analyses, and a range of radiocarbon dates, from about 2760 B.C., have suggested the interpretation of three cultural components. Component differences are to be found …
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YOUTH PERCEPTIONS ON LEARNING IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY: DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING ESSENTIAL SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS
… methods for data collection were semi structured artifact analysis, observations, surveys, and interviews. Research activities involved guided exploration of sustainability issues in AltspaceVR, collaborative painting in MultibrushVR, and an artifact contribution to a co-created learning …
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Motivation and Middle School Readers: The nature of motivation among adolescent struggling readers who made notable gains while in middle school.
… gathered through interviews, observations, and artifact analysis. Guthrie's (2001) work identified a list of essential elements for reading engagement: autonomy support, interesting texts, goal orientation, real-world instruction, evaluation, strategy instruction, teacher involvement, …
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Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art
… scales. Through semi-structured interviews, artifact analysis, and creative reflection with eight queer and women-identifying AI artists, this research investigates how marginalized practitioners engage generative AI not as neutral tool but as a technology that accelerates possibility through …
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Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders
… led.</p> <p>Through interviews, document and artifact analysis and observation of social media, this investigation suggests that early fat body consciousness was a formative experience for future advocacy work, and critical consciousness led to a more embodied leadership experience. A …
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High school teachers' stories of experiences with disciplinary literacy in their content area
… interviews, and lesson plan and classroom artifact analysis, this research constructed an understanding of literacy instruction as teachers define and deliver instruction in this urban emergent (Milner, 2012) school district. The problem explored in this study was the potential for …
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Navigating uncertainty as an “Adolescent Organization”: Addressing the needs of LGBTQIAA+ young people in a complex and adaptive service organization
… included narrative stories, focus groups, and artifact analysis, the researcher analyzed the participants’ responses through the lens of the HighScope Educational Research center’s seven developmental needs for youth and adolescents and applied garbage can theory and complex adaptive systems …
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Implementing Student Learning Outcomes: The Link to Accreditation in California Community Colleges
… and insights related to learning outcomes. Artifact analysis was conducted to establish credibility and data triangulation. Findings suggest formidable challenges exist in initiating this movement. Faculty cited fears that outcomes would be linked to tenure evaluations and lead to punitive …
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Domestication of open educational resources by academics in an open distance e-learning institution of South Africa
… and research provision. Information technology artifact was not treated in isolation to user perspective. The study established how academics accept, feel, perceive, and what skills, opportunities, challenges exist to hinder the domestication. The study context had no uniform guidelines or tools …
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Instaman: a case study of male identity expression on Instagram
… collection techniques is explicated including artifact analysis and in-depth interviews. Eight participants were chosen, and each had ten Instagram posts to analyze with a follow-up forty-five-minute interview about their posts and thoughts on masculinity. The results indicate that while the …
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