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Showing 1 to 20 of 5109 for “"Engaged"”.
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Community-engaged Theatre Audiences
Community-Engaged Theatre Audiences is an intervention into the reception of politically motivated, community-centered plays. This thesis aims to understand how individuals make meaning or sense out of these complicated sites of performance. It asks “what can scholars and artists learn about …
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Engaged Time in Two Kinds of Classrooms
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Engaged Reading in Third Grade: A Magical Kingdom
… study was to investigate how children become engaged readers in a third grade classroom. The study focused on what a teacher did to encourage children to read and environmental factors in the classroom helped create readers. The study was holistic in nature, including profiles of three …
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St. Catherine of Siena: Vocation as Engaged Scholarship
… "How is St. Catherine of Siena an exemplar of engaged communication scholarship?" This project covers five essential facets of communicative inquiry into a deeper understanding of St. Catherine of Siena and her embodiment of engaged communication scholarship. The five areas trace her life from …
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How Instructional Strategies Engaged Fourth Graders In Math Learning
<p>The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experiences of fourth-grade learners in a math classroom, how fourth graders express their interest and desire to learn math, and how different instructional strategies influence that interest and desire. The participants for this study …
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Literacy-Related Activities Of Young Siblings Engaged In Play
… and their interactions with each other as they engaged in literacy-related play activities in the home. The mothers of four sets of siblings collected the initial data in their rural home settings. The fieldwork took place over a period of eight weeks and included written observational notes of …
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Conversations: the socially engaged artist as environmental change agent
Conversations: The socially engaged artist as environmental change agent Janey Hunt - University of Plymouth 2005- 2011 I use my art practice in conjunction with environmental behaviour research and Michel de Certeau’s practice of the everyday, to enable a re-examination of socially engaged art and …
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Student-Engaged Assessment-A Meta-Analysis of EL Assessment Practices
… a balanced assessment program focused on student-engaged assessment, assessment for learning strategies, and effective use of both formative and summative assessment data. The current study captures the collection, analysis, and synthesis of professional materials regarding each of the Core …
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Engaged scholarship at land-grant institutions: Factors affecting faculty participation
… partners to address important societal issues, engaged scholarship has become an important movement in higher education. This research examines the perceptions of tenured and tenure-eligible faculty members at land-grant institutions and describes how disciplinary differences influence faculty …
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Registration, attendance, and reality: African-Americans engaged in SAT preparation
There is limited research into the persistence, participation, and efforts of African American students in their preparation for college admission exams (SAT, ACT). Registration, attendance, and the experienced reality of African American students who voluntarily enrolled in an SAT prep program as …
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Retention of construction teachers engaged in Missouri's secondary school system
The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons construction teachers were leaving their profession in their first five years of service, or if they stayed, what were the dominant factors that caused them to consider leaving the profession and what were the factors that were causing them …
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Uncovering Typologies of Civically Engaged Latinx/a/o College Graduates
… five typologies, or classes, of civically engaged Latinx/a/o college graduates: Activistas, Mentores, Politicos, Votantes, and Indiferentes. This study sought to address analytical and methodological shortcomings in the existing literature on Latinx/a/os and how college graduates engage …
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Exploring How Program Community Members Are Engaged in Evaluation Projects
… who, when, and how program community members are engaged in the evaluation process, as well as the competencies, challenges, and strategies that evaluators associate with the engagement. It utilized a mixed-methods design, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to gain a comprehensive …
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On the Horizon: Toward a Revisioning of Environmentally-Engaged Arts Practices
This research-creation thesis explores the intersecting themes of art and environmental crisis. It attempts to underscore the imbalances of power and agency throughout both the human and non-human worlds, which have driven the phenomenon that has been termed the Anthropocene. I begin with a …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
… a critical analysis of contemporary politically engaged art projects that claim to challenge dominant models of world-building and present alternative forms of living through the use of decolonial methodologies and political ecology approaches. In particular, I examine ‘alter-institutional …
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LONG-TERM SUSPENSIONS: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED IN SCHOOLING
… for keeping long-term suspended students engaged in learning. As school districts struggle with best practices to reduce dropouts and increase graduation rates, they look to ensure that suspended students remain focused on education. A Q-Sort methodology was employed that allowed 40 …
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Investigating learning in secondary science students engaged in project-based learning
… explores the nature of learning in students engaged in project-based learning (PBL) projects based in secondary science subjects. The literature review first establishes a working definition of learning, and then goes on the characterise project-based learning both in terms of its aims and …
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