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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"K-16"”.
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The Effectiveness of Cash Transfers as a Policy Instrument in K-16 Education
<p>Cash transfers, defined as direct transfers of purchasing power from an institution or individual to another individual, are an increasingly popular policy instrument both abroad and in the United States. This dissertation investigates how two educational interventions utilizing cash transfers …
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The Impact of Augmented Reality-Based-Affordances Instruction on Learners' Motivation in K-16 Classrooms: An Integrative Review
… performance of learners predominantly in the K-16 age range, takes the form of an integrative literature review. Using appropriate inclusion and exclusion criteria, twenty-four research studies were selected that were of appropriate quality and methodology. These studies were critically reviewed …
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Sealing The Cracks of The Educational Pipeline: Counterstories That Reveal Cultural Resiliency and Collective Responsibility in Latinas’ K-16 Success
The purpose of this qualitative research is to discover and describe the successes and institutional barriers along the educational pipeline for Latinas who are the first in their families to have successfully completed their undergraduate degrees. This research explores the unique elements of …
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Towards public professionalism: A pentadic intervention in debate between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
… rhetorical strategy for literacy educators (K-16) seeking to enter debates over common standards for "college- and career-readiness" in literacy. I argue that the NCTE's current strategy fails to invite public participation in debate, and to remedy this situation, I suggest educators employ …
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“I wasn’t the only one going through it”: Understanding the mathematical experiences of Latinx STEM majors
… participants were asked to reflect on their K-16 mathematical experiences, and through the lens of RM x SB three themes emerged. First, students reflected that it was ""too much to ask"" for mathematics to center Latinx cultures and histories, class participation was a high stakes action, and …
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Characterization of Heat Transfer Enhancement for an Oscillating Flat Plate-Fin
… approach flow. Reduced frequencies of 0.25 ≤ k ≤16 and plunge amplitudes of 0.03125 ≤ h ≤ 8 are investigated at Re=100 and Pr = 0.71. It is shown that the combined effect of frequency and amplitude on heat transfer enhancement can be accounted for as a single parameter “plunge velocity” (0.25 ≤ …
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Mexicana scholars in the making: testimonios from the heartland
… Furthermore, explores the impact of K – 16 experiences play in preparing them to navigate the graduate school experience and how current and past experiences influence their completion of the doctoral degree.
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Illuminating liminal spaces : a phenomenological investigation of Hispanic students' first-year experiences at a four-year university with prior dual credits
… schools, from the current K-12 system to a K-16 system, educators would be better situated and more readily accessible to help low-income and first-generation students of color gain access to four-year colleges and universities. While access to higher education is the first step in improving …
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TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING: USING THE NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT`S TOOLS AND PRINCIPLES TO PREPARE GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS TO FACILITATE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… professional development summer workshops that K-16 expert teachers consistently praise as transformative. The central question posed in this dissertation focuses on whether the NWP workshop, based on a teachers-teaching-teachers design, could also serve as an effective professional development …
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Early College Academic Performance: Studying the Effects of Earning College Credits from Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment
… the benefit of high school students and the K-16 educational system. These programs were specifically created and implemented to introduce students to the rigors of college and ease the academic and social transition from high school to college. Student AP and DE participation increases yearly …
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A DOMAIN-CENTRIC APPROACH TO DESIGNING USER INTERFACES OF VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
… implemented to search and browse the NASA K - 16 Science Education Programs. The system includes new design features that take into account the unique characteristics of the domain and associated tasks. Users with a background in Science Education, including teachers and academic majors, were …
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Undergraduate African American women's narratives on persistence in science majors at a PWI
… & Johnson, 2007) to examine the persistence of 16 African American women pursuing hard science majors. Using interviews and journal entries, this multiple case research study explored the differences in availability of resources, access to cultural capital, science identity formation, and …
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Further Characterization of High School Pre- and Non-Engineering Students' Cognitive Activity During Engineering Design
… teachers need to understand and do to help K-16 students improve their design capability and learn through design activities" (Crismond and Adams, 2012, p. 738). The methodology of this study was informed by procedures of cognitive science and verbal protocol analysis. The primary form of data …
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Writing as Survival: Uncovering How Students Understand Antiracist Writing Assessment Practices in the Community College Composition Classroom
… disproportionately higher failures rates in K-16. Because writing assessments are the site where a student’s writing labor is given an explicit value, Inoue (2014) theorized that addressing a classroom's writing assessment ecology, an interconnected system of seven traits, would help improve …
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Perspectives on the professional development of testing professionals in China — a mixed methods study of the roles of Chinese testing professionals in facilitating backwash effect
… The researcher, as a Chinese who experienced K-16 education in China as well as western graduate school training, was also used as a participant to analyze the meaning of those perceived PD needs. Based on the integrated survey and interview data, eight salient PD needs were discovered, …
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Gente Estudiada: Latina/o students confronting and engaging home/community knowledge within/outside institutions of higher education
… approach, this dissertation explores the K-16 lived experiences of Latina/o youth and the ways they grapple with the contradictory nature of education, and their desire to transcend cultural, social, political, and educational boundaries. By infusing a Chicana/Latina epistemological …
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Advanced Placement English and the College Curriculum: Evaluating and Contextualizing Policy
<p>This thesis examines the context in which Advanced Placement (AP) English policies are made, examining the political and economic realities that impact policy decisions as well as the discipline-based critiques of the AP English program which have led many writing program administrators (WPAs) …