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Exploring and conceptualizing teacher formative assessment practices and digital applications within a technology-enhanced high school classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Formative assessment is essential for improving student learning. Formative assessment research has predominantly used cognitive learning theories. In this dissertation study, I used sociocultural learning perspectives to understand how formative...
Four Peruvian pre-service teachers and their use of digital communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
consideration and peer learning were driving forces during the practice of the aforementioned strategies. Based on these findings, recommendations for teaching include the incorporation of social media in university and school classrooms. These will allow...
Undergraduate music students' perceptions of lesson and rehearsal planning /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This dissertation comprises three projects that were designed to investigate specific lesson planning practices and how music teacher educators might improve students' instructional preparation. The first investigation is ...
The exploration and regulation of gender and sexual identities in literacy education /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
/knowledge produced literacy curriculum, teachers, and multiple discourses in a Midwestern public school district. The methodological blend was comprised of postqualitative inquiry (St. Pierre, 2011; Lather and St. Pierre, 2013), thinking with theory (Jackson...
Grade 4-6 student conceptions and utilization of informal and formal variable representations across mathematically equivalent tasks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study reports how 24 grade 4-6 students in one elementary and middle school interpreted formal (e.g., x + y = 12) and informal representations of variables (e.g., □ + ∆ = 12). While interpretations for variables ...
South Korean parents' goals, knowledge, practices, and needs regarding music education for young children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
learning, and providing the opportunity to play through music. With respect to their knowledge about music education, parents described the music programs according to the activities they observed or experienced, but they did not show deeper understanding...
Development and initial validation of the Williams-Proctor Cultural Competence Scale : assessment for youth development professionals and paraprofessionals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
There are many fields needing to elaborate on the theoretical constructs that compose multicultural competence. This paper elaborated on the development of a reliable and valid instrument that assists with the self-assessment ...
Evaluation of the Kansas City Public Schools' student-centered learning program Harry Truman Elementary
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Student-Centered Learning is a foundational curriculum and instructional framework developed in the Kansas City Public Schools District and implemented between 2010 and 2012...
The integrating of teaching and learning through technology in high school : learning management systems (LMS) and alternatives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This dissertation is a case study about how teachers use Learning Management Systems (LMS) and teaching technologies in their classes. Research was conducted through interviews, observations, and document analysis. Data analysis yielded fourteen...
Teaching interns' level of proficiency of the MoSTEP quality indicators at the beginning and completion of the teaching internship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The amount of growth and development by teaching interns on the MoSTEP quality indicators during the student teaching internship has not been studied intently. In addition, the use of teacher certification measures as predictors of performance...
How do Asian adult second language writers engage in English writing?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Second language writers often learn to write in English in the context of test-oriented instruction and lack experience with writing that focuses on the expression...
Use of reflection in medical education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and administrators were interviewed to learn more about their perspectives related to reflection. Assessing reflection in medical education is complicated by a lack of agreement about definitions and goals. Although scientific reflection and clinical reflection...
Deconstructing dominant English language discourses in the Ghanaian curriculum : reimagining a curriculum centered on Ghanaian languages and literacies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
literacy, I first examine the discourse of the newly implemented 2019 K-6 primary school curriculum and public discourses of educational leaders to learn how curricular policies, content, assessment, and teaching and learning activities continue to ch...
Art/making sense of policy in art education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript style dissertation creates a continually expanding vista of policy at play in art/education. The scope of this manuscript style ...
Relationships between undergraduates' argumentation skills, conceptual quality of problem solutions, and problem solving strategies in introductory physics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This study explored the effects of alternative forms of argumentation on undergraduates' physics solutions in introductory calculus-based physics. A two-phase concurrent mixed methods design was employed to investigate ...
Development and validation of two influenza assessments : exploring the impact of knowledge and social environment on health behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Assessments of knowledge and perceptions about influenza were developed for high school students, and used to determine how knowledge, perceptions, and demographic variables relate to students taking precautions and their ...
Characterizing middle and secondary preservice teachers' change in inferential reasoning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study characterizes how a cohort of 33 middle and secondary mathematics preservice teachers' inferential reasoning changed while enrolled in a statistics course designed for future teachers. Changes in inferential ...
An investigation into the relationship between student achievement and curriculum knowedge of special education co-teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The balance of awareness of student disabilities, providing supports and accommodations necessary for the success of special education students, and a high understanding curriculum contents is a challenge for special educators in the co...
Pre-service science teachers' beliefs related to teaching and learning with socioscientific issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
, as they engaged in SSI-focused learning activities and curriculum design, in an SSI-focused methods course built around the SSI teaching and learning (SSI-TL) framework (Sadler et al., 2017). PSTs' beliefs about SSI were influenced by their existing beliefs about...
Exploratory study into the relationship between factors related to teacher qualification, school context, and the reported professional development outcomes /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study addressed the question: Is there a relationship between teacher qualifications and school context on reported professional development (PD) outcomes? Data was collected from archived PD for state funded grants ...