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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"depth of understanding"”.
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Building Depth of Understanding of the Concept of Number Sense and Algebra in Students Grades 7 and 8
<p>Mathematics instruction offers both challenges and rewards to students. Teachers tend to focus on transmission of knowledge. Student creativity and problem-solving skills are not typically activated with common teaching practices. When students are engaged in mathematics they are recognizing …
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Scaling Automatic Question Generation to Large Documents: A Concept-Driven Approach
… enabling question-generation from hundreds of pages of text (ii) depth of understanding, producing questions beyond factual recall to test conceptual reasoning, and (iii) domainindependence, automatically generating questions across diverse knowledge areas. Instead of providing an LLM with …
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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: 3 Years of Experiments In Graduate Lighting
… journey from novice to mastery in the study of Lighting Design. Through the examination and thorough analysis of several large scale design projects, the author intends to gain a greater depth of understanding about his own process as a designer and artist while demonstrating to the readers …
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What happens when you use multicultural mentor texts as read alouds to generate ideas for writing personal narratives?
The purpose of this study is to determine what happens when you use multicultural mentor texts as read alouds to generate ideas for writing personal narratives in 3rd grade readers and writers. By utilizing these mentor texts as read alouds this study seeks to determine what effects they have on …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
<p>The present thesis explores the implications of neighborhood effects, parent-child relationship, and school attachment upon young adulthood attainment among Hispanic adolescents. By 2060, the U.S. population will consist of nearly 12.8 million Hispanic persons and will constitute nearly a third …
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The use of digitised video of experienced teachers at work in preservice teacher education
… research study designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in an undergraduate teacher education course. It will describe the process of the initial implementation of an online module containing video segments of teachers at work. Use of the Internet and high quality digitised video …
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Somewhere between Rabun Gap and Tybee Light
The Savannah River originates in the area of Rabun Gap in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in northern Georgia, and flows eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Where the river opens out to the sea, the Tybee Island Lighthouse stands. A few miles inland, the city of Savannah, Georgia rests on …
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Determining the impact of a multiliteracies workshop on TPACK knowledge of elementary preservice teachers
… study gathered information on the experiences of two comparison groups: Group A that attended methods courses and practicum and Group B that attended methods courses and practicum along with the Multiliteracies Workshop (MW). The study collected data on the kinds of experiences in teaching and …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
Historically, the preaching of the word of God has been a synthesis of both oral and written orientations with text providing both the source and the preservation of the sermon, and orality fueling its expression. Expression preceded documentation. Scripture displays this dual nature in its …
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Juvenile Offenders' Perceptions of the Counseling Relationship
The purpose of the study was to explore juvenile offenders' perceptions of the counseling relationship. Eight juvenile offenders who were on probation under the jurisdiction of a juvenile court participated in the study. Using a phenomenological methodology, two interviews with each participant …
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Incorporating Self-Directed Learning Practices into an Elementary Classroom
The current focus of many school districts has been to teach students the skills and abilities that will be necessary to become successful individuals in a constantly changing, global environment. As many districts recognize the importance of incorporating more than content and knowledge in their …
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Savaal: A system for automatically generating high-quality questions from unseen documents
Assessing human understanding through exams and quizzes is fundamental to learning and advancement in both educational and professional settings. However, current solutions to automate the generation of challenging questions from educational materials and documents are insufficient, resulting in …
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Marketing to the U.S. Hispanic Consumer: Apparel Preferences and Strategies.
… as a whole, has grown in importance. The purpose of this study was to learn more about the U.S. Hispanic market in regards to apparel preferences and to discover how these products were being promoted to the Hispanic consumer. The literature suggests that the growth of the U.S. Hispanic market …
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Pre-service Teachers' Self-efficacy for Teaching Mathematics
… to develop throughout their first few years of teaching. They then remain relatively stable for the remainder of their teaching careers. Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have been shown to influence teachers' job satisfaction, resilience, burnout rates, health, motivation, teaching behaviors, …
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A Phenomenological Study on the Culture Within the U.S. Military That Contributes to Sexual Violence Against Women
… the U.S. military has seen a rise in the number of reported cases since first being tracked 17 years ago by the Department of Defense. There is no clear understanding of why this problem persists and why it affects women more than men. Existing research consists primarily of quantitative studies …
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Child neglect from the standpoint of mothers
This study documents the standpoint of mothers in relation to the child welfare system using institutional ethnography as the research method. Specifically this research explores the contradiction between the crucial role mothers play in protecting children and the absence of their standpoint in …
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A mixed-methods approach to mapping caregiver-reported paths of service delivery following early ASD concerns
… spectrum disorder (ASD) for their children often experience a delay between first concerns and diagnosis (2 years on average; Sansosti et al., 2012), and many caregivers describe frustration with the system navigation involved in the process of accessing an ASD diagnostic evaluation and …
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Homicide Clearance in England and Wales: Understanding the National Decline
The aim of this research is to critically explore the declining homicide clearance rate across England and Wales since 2011, and to identify what factors have contributed to this downturn. Homicide clearance is often used as a barometer of police effectiveness and a sustained decline in clearance …
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Black African students and the art and design education space : narratives of journeys to higher education art and design
… approach, focuses on the Black African sector of our community and explores how Black African students access, enter and progress through HE Art and Design and what facilitates this progress. It also questions what limiting barriers are visible in the art and design educational journeys of the …
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Attachment Histories of Reception Class Children and Roles in Bullying Situations
Bullying research has provided a wealth of information and a depth of understanding that has led to the development of intervention strategies in schools. However, despite this extensive research, bullying continues to be a significant problem. It has been suggested that working with children or …
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