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A case study of fifth grade social studies curriculum for inclusion of multicultural education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
on fifth grade social studies curriculum. The questions outlined in Dr. James Banks' Checklist for Evaluating Instructional Materials provided the constructs identified in the district curricula and student textbooks. Results from this study suggest...
Achieving a coherent curriculum in second grade : science as the organizer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
) the teachers viewed science as a tool to motivate students and used an inquiry based approach to teach science; 2) they described inquiry as a process of thinking organized around questions, and shifted their instruction between guided and open inquiry...
From the textbook to the enacted curriculum: Textbook use in the middle school mathematics classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2003)
, and enacting the curriculum. These case studies include data from classroom observations and in-depth interviews. Following work by Remillard (1999); Remillard and Bryans (2003), a model for primary use of textbook is proposed. A model of teacher's role...
Art experiences in Waldorf education : graduates' meaning making reflections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
utilized to gather data from Waldorf graduates. This semi-structured interview protocol was designed to first, ascertain the graduates' overview about art experiences; second, narrow to their reflections about key moments (epiphanies) within arts experience...
A study of environmental education in Missouri : a survey of project wet facilitators' understandings of environmental education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
) is one of the state's nonformal, natural resource agencies involved with EE. The agency sponsors a national EE curriculum, Project WET (water education for teachers). The DNR state coordinator for Project WET is responsible for providing workshops...
Whole-class read-alouds with diverse children's literature: primary teachers' perspectives and practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
analysis included open and axial coding, constant-comparative analysis, and within- and cross-case analysis. Findings from the study indicate that the teachers had to negotiate their school contexts to hold read-alouds with DCL, even in schools that worked...
Alternative certification science teachers' understanding and implementation of inquiry-based instruction in their beginning years of teaching
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The purpose of this phenomenographic study was to: (a) understand how beginning science teachers recruited from various science disciplines and prepared in an Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP) implemented inquiry during their initial...
Talking beyond the text: identifying and fostering critical talk in a middle school classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
prompted by literature. Four themes emerged from the data: teacher's knowledge, processing time, various forms of scaffolding, and oral rubrics. During in-depth analysis of ten selected transcripts, additional themes of the nature of critical talk emerged...
Alternatively certified mathematics teachers : factors that contribute to changes in instruction over time
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
chosen to document the changes over time and reveal associated factors. Six distinct instructional practices emerged from the data. The analysis of the changes over time revealed four types of teachers. Of those using a variety of practices, the factors...
Social studies, denizens, and the state: A three-article dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Education as State Apparatus in the War on Terror,” interrogates the tactical use of education within the War on Terror. Using sixteen years of annual reports from the Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, this study 1) historicizes...
Development and analysis of a socio-scientific reasoning assessment : application of computer automated scoring and rasch analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
and reliability of the QuASSR-oe2 using psychometric techniques from classical-test theory and Rasch analysis. The study also establishes that accurate automated-scoring models (QWK [greater than] .7) can be generated, thus allowing for efficient scoring of open...
Scaffolding the continua of biliterate development in the Spanish language immersion classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The purpose of this qualitative research project is to describe the scaffolding strategies used by a teacher to engage and support students as they work within the continua of biliterate development in the fifth-grade Spanish language immersion...
Instrumental music teacher perceptions regarding student self-regulation of music learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
's perceptions. Data were analyzed using both with-in case and cross-case analyses. Findings from this study revealed that most of the participants used instructional strategies oriented towards the forethought phase of the theory. They also used instructional...
Iraqi graduate students' perceptions of academic writing in the STEM fields
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
' thinking about academic writing; b) Strategies students use to help improve their writing skills; and c) Factors influencing multilingual STEM students' identity as writers. Qualitative intrinsic case study is the methodology approach that guided this study...
Values concerning disadvantaged pupils in differing organizational climates
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1970)
Educators who have had occasion to visit a variety of different schools and communicate with their respective staffs recognize that each school has its own distinctive characteristics aside from those relating to size, relative wealth, location...
Preparing to teach English language learners : exploring the change in mainstream teachers' perceptions of ELL students in two online certification courses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to understand the role of two online certification courses in changing mainstream teachers' perceptions of ELL students. The discussion board posts...
A case study of cross-cultural and cross-age online literature discussion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to investigate the nature of students' reading and writing experiences and the social contexts when students are involved in a cross-cultural and cross-age online literature discussion activity. From...
Enacted identities : a narrative inquiry into teacher writerly becoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
of the study, I used data collected from teaching observations to build a continuum of process --> product, employing Goffman's (1974) frame analysis to place the teachers within that continuum. This continuum represented the stable thread that continued...
The Changing Lives Through Literature program for juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to learn if the Changing Lives through Literature program for juvenile offenders actually lived up to its billing of transforming troubled teens...