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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"K-12 students"”.
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Conceptualization of System Structure as a Stepping Stone to Systems Understanding among K-12 Students
A new vision set forth by the Framework for K-12 Science Education (National Research Council, 2012) highlights the importance of developing students’ abilities to think about systems as opposed to isolated facts. However, little evidence exists on how to foster students’ conceptualization of …
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Empowering K-12 Students to Understand and Design Conversational Agents: Concepts, Recommendations and Development Platforms
… presents educational interventions for K-12 students, which aim to encourage healthier understanding and relationships with conversational agents. This includes conversational agent curricula, development platforms and conceptual frameworks. Through studies with children and parents from …
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Instructional Practices for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Lessons for K–12 Students With Disabilities: Perceptions of Teachers From a Virginia Suburban School Division
… engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons for students with disabilities (SWD) based on the perceptions of teachers. Barriers to STEM lessons for SWD were identified, as well as the professional development desired by teachers. SWD can benefit from participation in STEM lessons. STEM is an …
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Developing a learning progression for energy and causal reasoning in socio-ecological systems
This study looks at the way K-12 students display reasoning in their explanations of energy and socio-ecological events using both interview and written assessments.
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A Study of the Programmatic Costs Associated With Educating K--12 Public School Students in Illinois and Their Student Achievement as Measured by the IGAP Standardized Test Scores
… costs associated with educating public K--12 students are an important predictor of student achievement, even when considered within the context of demographic variables. Frequently these programmatic cost variables were the second most significant predictors identified, following only low …
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Capturing Worlds of Play: A Framework for Educational Multiplayer Mixed Reality Simulations
… hands-on lessons to teach systems thinking to K-12 students. However, several challenges obstruct the implementation of these simulations. These simulations require that participating mixed reality devices share a global view of the simulation. Devices must share a robust map of the physical …
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Community Connected Experiential Learning: Change in the K-12 Classroom
… learning. A qualitative study with K–12 educators from a school board in Ontario and grounded theory methodology is used to analyze, code, and identify several theoretical cornerstones. The prominent themes of teacher pedagogy and community connections emerge and offer implications for …
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Multicultural Perceptions of Creativity
… with others. This study revealed that K-12 students need more access to the arts, opportunities to demonstrate learning through multiple representations, access to teachers of color, and identification and programming for creatively gifted students.</p>
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Teaching About Religion in the Public Schools
… of teaching about religious traditions in the K-12 public school curriculum. It concludes that, while there may be difficulties involved, fair and neutral teaching about religion is crucial to the education of our K-12 students. The paper discusses five rationales for including the teaching about …
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QUEERING THE CURRICULUM: ESTABLISHING EQUITY FOR LGBTQIA STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS IN MICHIGAN
… learning and working environment for LGBTQIA K-12 students and educators, explicitly focusing on 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> grade English Language Arts (ELA) standards. In the first chapter, I evaluate the relationship between queer theory and pedagogy and illuminate the need to …
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Technology and its impact on parental involvement in K-12 education
… parent portal has on parent involvement in K-12 education. Parents who participated in the study were asked questions in the fields of special education; social economic status; parent workshops; use of technology, including the parent portal; parent beliefs; parent–teacher relationships; and …
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The State of Teacher Evaluations in California K-12 Public Schools during COVID-19
… was minimal, particularly for California K-12 public schools. This mixed methods non-experimental case study employed a grounded theory research approach to gain an understanding of teacher evaluations during the COVID-19 pandemic. To conduct the study, human resource administrators in …
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Applying a critical race framework towards anti-racist art teacher education
… the disparity in the racial composition of K-12 students enrolled in American public schools in contrast to that of art teachers and art teacher educators. In response to diverse K-12 student populations, art teacher training programs can and should be responsible for producing teachers with …
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Integrating Comprehension Instruction Within the Middle School ELA Curriculum
… as fluency and vocabulary, is a struggle among K-12 students, but especially middle school students. Since the implementation of the CCSS and a push for more rigorous reading material, the task of ensuring students comprehend complex texts is a challenging one for teachers. Due to the nature of …
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Computational Action in Action: Process and Tools that Empower Students to Make a Real-world Impact Using Technology
How can we help K-12 students who are learning computer science and artificial intelligence (A.I.) feel motivated, competent, and empowered? The computational action framework, proposed by Tissenbaum, Sheldon, and Abelson, suggests that the preferable way is to ensure that young people are creating …
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Artificial Intelligence Tools, Curricula, and Agents for Creative Learning
… Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools for K-12 learning hold immense potential for reducing barriers to creative expression, access to these AI tools and AI knowledge among K-12 students and educators remains inequitable to children from groups underrepresented in STEM. In this thesis, I …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… associated with standardized testing in K-12 schools in the United States. While the public has become aware of issues surrounding data collection, distribution, and analysis in online spaces, this discourse has not fully extended into education. I extend the discourse surrounding consumer …
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Content Management on the Internet: A look at K-12 schools access to resources
… presents a new phenomenon to educators and students in the K-12 environment. It's ease of use and ready access to material provides an overwhelming resource for use in the K-12 classroom. This study looked at content management of Internet resources in the K-12 school environment. Content …
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Teachers' Beliefs About Students With English as an Additional Language and Co-Existing Disability Participation in State Academic Achievement Tests
… in relation to their roles with respect to K-12 students with English as an additional language and co-existing disability (SEAL+D) participation in state-mandated accountability assessments. U.S. federal laws of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), last reauthorized as the Every …
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Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies
… language practices of emergent bi/multilingual K-12 students and use that knowledge to drive equitable pedagogical and programmatic approaches. But little is known about how emergent bi/multilingual students — a growing population that school systems have often viewed with deficit-based lenses and …
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