An e-mail survey was conducted in the summer of 2007 to obtain information from state supervisors of mathematics (employees of state departments of education with primary responsibility for K-12 curriculum leadership) ...

motivated and engaged in English learning while doing digital poetry. This study also makes some recommendations in terms of poetry and digital poetry teaching in the American classroom and the ESL/EFL classroom as well as suggestions for future research....

. At the same time, several bivariate learning expectations present in textbooks were not found in CCSSM. For the task features, few instances were at a high level of mathematical complexity and rarely included a Collect Data component. Analyses revealed...

as incapable of learning complex and meaningful algebraic knowledge. Such expectations translate into poor teaching practices, practices of exclusion and marginalization within the mathematics classrooms, and low quality interactions between teachers...

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which collegiate low brass studio teachers implement the nine National Standards for Music Education into their intentions, structure, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment. This study examined...

Prospective mathematics teachers (PTs) need to develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. Therefore, mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) need to help PTs develop PCK (Marks, 1990; Mason, 2008...

through the lens of the curriculum materials they use to provide opportunities for learning for their students....

teaching. Through collaboration, curriculum, and the classroom context, the teaching intern learned to incorporate his pedagogical content knowledge in instruction. Analysis revealed that as he gained new knowledge he was able to shift his focus from...

The purpose of this study was to examine how a team of teachers used science as a means for designing and implementing a coherent curriculum.Using a phenomenological research framework and a case study method, I generated four assertions: 1...

observed and interviewed over the span of a week to investigate their goals. Findings were developed inductively and led to a presentation of goal themes. Teachers held goals for self-improvement, for the classroom environment, for the direction tasks...

for key terms that will appear throughout the dissertation. Chapter 2 features a discussion of the theoretical foundation of this study as well as relevant research literature on the teaching and learning of race/ism within social studies education...

-city. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of combining interdisciplinary, integrated, Arts-Based Instruction into the core curriculum and the pedagogical practices of teaching. Does establishing a motivational learning environment that allows...

There is no simple solution to improve student learning opportunities for Missouri students. Rather, we need a “recipe” that will maximize the liklihood of students learning important mathematics....

with current views of assessment to support learning and instruction. However, in the practical realm, the participants demonstrated varying degrees of sophistication of assessment use while teaching atomic structure and electron configuration. Based...

serve as an initial stage for research into how curriculum influences student learning of function....

, or manuscripts, by contextualizing them in the field of art education. Specifically, she states the problems under investigation, describes relevant scholarship, and presents the research theories and strategies. Each manuscript contains a unique study...

separate research manuscripts that examined the challenges and affordances of designing and enacting curriculum and assessment practices in an upper-level agroecology course titled, Advanced Practices of Sustainable Agriculture. All three studies integrate...

are responsible for its failure to receive proper recognition commensurate with its importance in the curriculum. When first introduced, physics was not well organized, and few know its possibilities. Teachers who were called upon to teach it were incompetent...

involving gender and sexual identities. This dissertation is organized in three articles that separately focus on specific aspects of the study and together present a cohesive body of work. I designed a study to merge theory and methodology, employing a...