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Showing 1 to 20 of 330 for “"Secondary Education and Teaching"”.
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The effects of a model-eliciting activity on high school student design performance
… more effective designers. High school technology and engineering students engage in engineering design challenges as part of traditional instructional practices. Model-eliciting activities (MEA) present students with opportunities to elicit mathematically thinking that facilitates modeling. …
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The Discoveries of a First Year Teacher
… but a math teacher at that. The questions go on and on and on. At the end of the day, there are many reasons and factors that contribute to me wanting to become a teacher. But wanting to become a teacher and becoming a teacher are two completely different stories. This is my journey and …
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Motivation of Secondary-School Teachers in the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Based on Herzberg's Dual-Factor Theory of Job Satisfaction and Motivation
<p>Several studies in industry and public education have defined areas of job satisfactionand dissatisfaction. It appears that the Seventh-day Adventist secondary-school teachers are confronted with most of the same motivating factors as their counterparts in public schools. Job dissatisfaction can …
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An Analysis of the Expressed Needs for Vocational Education in Secondary Schools in Barbados
… held by administrators, teachers, students, and parents regarding the expressed needs for vocational education in secondary schools in Barbados.</p> <p>The survey method was used to gather the data. All respondents were asked to complete a 42-item questionnaire. The population sample was 762, …
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Differential Perceptions of Teachers and Students About the Teaching and Learning of History in Secondary Schools of Trinidad and Tobago
<p><em>Problem</em>. Students at the upper secondary-school level sometimes experience difficulties understanding basic historical concepts as well as appreciating the relevance of history as a subject in the school's curriculum. While these students are capable of formulating perspectives of their …
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Classroom management: a study in leadership, theory, and implementation
… components of a classroom management plan, and implement the research into practice to study the effects of implementing a classroom management plan. There will be three action research cycles that drive this case study. The case study starts by studying the effects of implementing a …
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Moral and Religious Problems and Attitudes as Expressed by Students in Seventh-day Adventist Academies in the United States and Canada
… purpose of the study was to ascertain the moral and religious problems and attitudes as perceived by students in Adventist academies. An attempt was also made to evaluate, from the students' viewpoint, the effectiveness of the provisions made by the academies to help meet these problems. Method …
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The impact of blogging on the facilitation of critical literacy in adolescent students
… an alternative perspective from World War II and completed six blog posts on a variety of topics over the course of four weeks. At the completion of the study, students' blog posts and comments revealed five different categories: (1) problematizing generally accepted texts or beliefs, (2) an …
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An editing framework guiding students toward self-correcting errors in writing
… the high school level. From our first year of education to our last, teachers stress the importance of working through the writing process. Unfortunately, for many students getting started proves a struggle to organize ideas, developing those ideas is exhausting, and by the time they complete a …
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An Autobiographical Study of My Beliefs, Attributes, and Practices as an Instructional Support Consultant
… support. This study uncovers the beliefs and attributes that drive my practices as an instructional support consultant, as well as those that comprise my model of instructional support.</p> <p><em>Method</em> . Using a narrative autobiographical approach, I analyzed early experiences that …
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The Transition From High School to College : a Single-Case Study
… purpose of this study was to use quantitative and qualitative data to describe the transition recent high-school graduates made to a small, rural community college. Both the students’ academic preparation and their own perceptions about their preparedness for college were described.</p> …
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The multiple dimensions of negative attitudes toward school among students in an urban high school environment
… in a high school environment through interviews and journal writing as a basis for qualitative data. A sample of convenience was chosen that included six students with varied characteristics of interest for the study. Students were asked to respond to journal prompts at 3-day intervals and were …
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
… based description of teacher writing comments in secondary ELA classrooms. Based within a case study methodology, this study used analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in order to discover the various meanings that teachers make through …
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Supporting Emerging Multilingual Newcomer Students and their Teachers in California Public High Schools
… emerging multilingual <em>newcomer </em>students and their teachers. The study examines research regarding deficit mindset that has led to student labels that perpetuate negative school and teacher views of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Additional research used for this study …
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What's in a choice? a study in how choice in assignment affects student completion of assignments
… correlation between the amount of choices and the likelihood that students completed the assignments. While this correlation was present, it may be possible that other factors influenced this increase in student completion of assignments. These factors include when during the grading period …
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