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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Opportunities to learn"”.
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Opportunities to learn environmental education : a case study of Mpumalanga province
… the Revised National Curriculum Statement to replace the pre-apartheid education curriculum. C-2005 had come with some major changes in the teaching and learning of most subjects in the school curriculum. Among its major changes, the new curriculum focused on Environmental Education (EE) as …
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From High School to Creative Work: Cumulative Inequalities in Creative Arts Opportunities to Learn
<p>Pathways into creative careers—i.e., in the arts, culture, entertainment, and related fields—are fraught with inequalities, starting in early life. This dissertation uses restricted-use data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) …
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LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: ACHIEVING PROPORTIONAL GIFTED REPRESENTATION THROUGH OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND NONVERBAL ASSESSMENTS
Administrators in school systems strive to ensure that the identification of giftedness in elementary students results in proportional demographic representation. Overly stringent or biased gifted identification results in deserving students receiving fewer opportunities-to-learn and exacerbates …
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Tee-Ball
… study was that boys between the ages of seven to nine playing Tee-ball would receive a significantly higher number of opportunities to learn baseball skills than boys playing in the Atom Leagues; and as a result of the greater number of opportunities to learn, Tee-ball would result in greater …
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Folklórico Testimonios: Identity, Community, and Agency as Social Justice Cultural Performance for Dancers of Mexican Folklórico
<p>Mexican students in higher education have few opportunities to learn about their heritage and history outside of Ethnic Studies courses. Some students seek alternative opportunities to learn about their identity and to build community with other Mexican students through folklórico. In Mexican …
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Risk, Emergent Skills, and First to Third Grade Achievement: An Opportunity-Propensity Analysis
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of center-based care and children's school readiness in predicting their first and third grade reading and mathematics achievement. Predictions derived from an opportunity-propensity theoretical framework applied to data from the Early Childhood …
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A Generic Qualitative Study of the Experiences of International Students Participating in the Cultural Connections Program at the University of Mississippi
The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of international students participating in the Cultural Connections Program at The University of Mississippi. A generic qualitative design was utilized using purposeful criterion sampling. The data was collected from two focus group …
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"These Rights Go Beyond Borders and Pieces of Paper": Urban High School Teachers and Newcomer Immigrant Youth Engaging in Human Rights Education
… in HRE with newcomer students was brought to light as two teachers enacted their vision of critical pedagogy, human rights content and learning goals, as well as English language instruction.</p> <p>The findings in this study conveyed that engaging in HRE was relevant to students' lives and …
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Classroom Error Climate: Teacher Professional Development to Improve Student Motivation
… of studies describing these declines and efforts to improve learning outcomes, the trends continue. Motivation has been studied from several theoretical standpoints, among them, self-efficacy, beliefs, goal orientations, and emotions. This dissertation introduces error orientation: how teachers …
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Educator Professional Development in Universal Design for Learning and Social-Emotional Learning: A Collective Case Study
… constructed professional development supports learning. Integration of Universal Design for Learning and Social-Emotional Learning into professional development supports comprehension and encourages generalization. This study sought to understand educators’ perceptions following a five-part …
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Enhancing Chinese EFL Learners' Oral English Through Multimedia
… literature and offers specific ways for teachers to use communicative practices in the English classroom. Based on Communicative Language Learning, this project uses many authentic materials, like videos, speaking activities, which could help develop students’ oral proficiencies. The discussion …
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Holistic trauma-informed training in counseling psychology doctoral programs
This study utilizes a phenomenological framework to better understand counseling psychology doctoral students’ experiences of trauma training provided within their doctoral programs. Counseling psychologists are likely to encounter patients who have a history of trauma due to the high prevalence of …
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One-to-One Learning - Success Factors For Meaningful Technology Integration
… an evaluation of the Grove School District’s one-to-one iPad program, for the purpose of understanding the relationship between teacher support for the program and classroom use. The evaluation also explores the various factors that impact a successful one-to-one program, including leadership …
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Preparing early field placement students to understand and promote early childhood social and emotional development through pre-session and post-session teaching team meetings
… development in early childhood remains critical to long-term development across developmental domains and content areas. However, this area is seen as one of the most difficult for teachers to promote. It has been suggested that preparation for effective teaching in this area begins with teacher …
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A Neuroethology Approach For Insect Senses And Behavior
… of neural basis of natural behavior. I studied learning using sound as a cue in fruit flies and made recordings from the Johnston's organ (JO), I also investigated associative learning in mosquitoes. Finally, I studied Salticid (jumping) spiders to investigate the neural basis of their visual …
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Debugging the future: quality of life, academic success and student acceptability of assistive technology
… receiving assistance through instruction and tutoring services. The second group is receiving support to pursue future doctoral studies. Participants provided self-report of their academic strengths and challenges, acceptability of AT, and quality of life. I offered participants multiple …
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Understanding Faculty and Non-Traditional Student Perceptions of Self-Directed Learning in a Practical Nursing Program
<p>This study was designed to identify and investigate nursing faculty and student perspectives of self-directed learning in a practical nursing program. It also explored the degree to which student's perceptions of self-directed learning exhibited factors consistent with that of critical thinking. …
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Student Learning Heterogeneity in School Mathematics
The phrase "opportunities to learn" (OTL) is most commonly interpreted in institutional, or inter-individual, terms but it can also be viewed as a cognitive, or intra-individual, phenomenon. How student learning heterogeneity (LH) - learning differences manifested when children's understanding is …
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Teaching, Learning, and Writing in the Third Space: A Study of Language and Culture Intersecting with Instruction
<p>The purpose of this dissertation was to compare the characteristics and attributes of an effective first grade teacher of writing to English learners through the lens of the "third space." The "third space" represents a place where sociocultural theory interacts with language and culture, and …
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Preparing Teachers Who Can Effectively Assess Students with Disabilities
… (SEDLP). Research questions were designed to gain an understanding in three areas. First, in what ways did recent SEDLP graduates characterize their level of competence (theoretical understanding and practical application) in assessing the progress of students with disabilities in the …
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