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Showing 1 to 20 of 781 for “"United States. -- History"”.
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Appreciation units in United States history.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Controversial Issues in United States History Classrooms: Teachers' Perspectives
… this study was to understand how secondary level United States History teachers approached controversial issues in their standards-based, high-stakes testing classrooms. Controversial issues consisted of multiple points of view, were socially constructed, and had the potential to challenge belief …
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Reimagining Ability, Reimagining America: Teaching Disability in United States History Classes
… educational literature about disability in the United States and provides a curriculum guide for teaching Human Rights Education (HRE) and disability studies (DS) at the high school level in California. This project traces the historical development of deficit attitudes toward disability back to …
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Multiple Perspective in United States History: Shifting Perspectives in High School Students
… secondary social studies education in the United States moves toward inquiry and constructivist models of teaching, much of the history that is taught is stuck in a fairly rigid narrative. This narrative has been written and refined by historians and high school textbook writers until the …
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An in-depth study of six United States history classes utilizing team teaching
… of this study was to investigate the team-taught United States history programs in six Indiana schools. The research was designed to obtain information that would apply to the following seven hypotheses:1. When team teaching is used, there will be evidence of joint-planning to implement …
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A content analysis of selected United States history textbooks concerning World War II
… content analysis, to the five most widely used United States high school history textbooks. The textbooks were investigated to obtain an objective, systematic, quantitative, and qualitative description of the textual content concerning the period of World War II.The population studied consisted …
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Rhetoric vs. Reality: A Critical Analysis of Georgia’s Official Curriculum for United States History
… of Education to investigate how the Georgia United States History curriculum addresses race, racism, and representations of communities and individuals of Color. The documents published by the Georgia Department of Education were analyzed using ATLAS.ti software and coding methods from a …
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Countering privilege: Toward a critical pedagogy of compassion in the teaching of United States history
… given minority status in our society by having United States history teachers teach history in such a way that the affluent come to have a greater understanding for the “other.” The study begins with a discussion of concepts of privilege, compassion and empathy, and the poor. This is followed by …
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The present status of the content of United States history as taught in Louisiana secondary schools
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Explicit Instruction in United States History Textbooks Exercises: The Role of Exercises in Navigating and Critically Evaluating Textbooks
Textbooks dominate history classrooms. Research finds that textbooks contain debatable interpretations and omit significant historical accounts. Researchers recommend the explicit instruction in learning strategies to help students to navigate and critically evaluate textbooks. The limited amount …
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The construction and evaluation of an achievement test of factual material in United States history for grade eight
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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A Case Study of United States History Teachers in Virginia in an Era of the Standards of Learning Assessment
… the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) United States history assessment scores, was used to assess academic outcomes for students. Policy implementation research frequently fails to include an analysis of teaching practice. The goal of this study, then, was to explore current …
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Secondary teachers' perceptions on their competency and self-efficacy levels associated with an integrated professional development approach to teaching United States history
… of Content Immersion Mini-institutes, Public History Field Experiences, and Collaborative Pedagogical workshops offered to middle school and high school United States history teachers. The major focus of the study was scaled exit surveys and free response questions completed by teachers in six …
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An Enumeration of Historical Accounts Selected to Facilitate the Teaching of Key Historical Concepts
… and (2) to enumerate various counts from United States History, which could be used with elementary school pupils to develop an understanding of these core values.</p>
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A Study of Group Dynamics as a Classroom Process
… with a group of eighth grade students in United States history. 3. To learn how teaching can be made more effective through utilization of group dynamics.
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Applications of the well-educated mind 2003 concept by Susan Bauer in the Southern California history classrooms
… this study is to discover how courses in world history and United States history are taught in Southern California secondary schools. At this stage of the research the study of the history course instruction will be generally defined as an exploratory and investigative inquiry involving the …
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Applications of the well-educated mind 2003 concept by Susan Bauer in the Southern California history classrooms
… this study is to discover how courses in world history and United States history are taught in Southern California secondary schools. At this stage of the research the study of the history course instruction will be generally defined as an exploratory and investigative inquiry involving the …
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The Economic Impact of the Oso Landslide: A Hedonic Approach
… landslide, the deadliest mass-wasting event in United States history, increased awareness for mass-wasting hazards in western Washington. Studying single-family homes from 2004-2017, this research uses a hedonic property model to measure consumer willingness to pay for a home in a mass-wasting …
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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… 1783–1888” is an intellectual and cultural history that traces the connections among geography writing, print culture, and nationalism. It challenges the conventional historiographical paradigm that understands antebellum and postbellum periods in United States history as fundamentally …
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The Story of His Life and Work: Public History at The Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial (1945-1956)
… support from the governments of Virginia and the United States to establish the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial at the site of Washington’s birth in Franklin County, Virginia. The Memorial organization undertook public history work that emphasized Washington as a significant figure in …
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