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The attainment of social capital with adoelcsent girls living at the intersection of race and poverty in a community-based pedagogical space known as Auntie's Place
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
African American female literacies, social capital theory and spirituality, the researcher reviews existing scholarship and primary documents to present an historical examination of how peoples of African descent have created means of education in venues...
Colombian teachers' expectations of poor and black students' ability to learn algebra
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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...
Learning trajectories related to bivariate data in contemporary high school mathematics textbook series in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
. 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...
Goals of instruction : a cross case analysis of five secondary mathematics teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
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...
Ten Challenges Facing the Mathematics Education Community
(2010)
This presentation gives an overview of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) and discusses some pressing issues and challenges related to teaching and learning mathematics, including what is working and what needs attention...
Functions in contemporary secondary mathematics textbook series in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
serve as an initial stage for research into how curriculum influences student learning of function....
Poetry, media, and second language acquisition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
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....
"I think I'm a good reader, but I guess I'm not, since I got put in that class." The intended and unintended consequences of reading assessment and intervention : an institutional ethnography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This Institutional Ethnography presents research gathered through interviews with administrators, teachers and students involved in the giving, taking and using of reading assessments to place students in junior high reading intervention. A strong...
Facilitating the development of elementary prospective teachers' pedagogical content knowledge : a case study of a mathematics teacher educator's actions and purposes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
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...
Swimming through whiteness : exploring non-racism and anti-racism in social studies teacher education /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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...
The Future of STEM Curriculum and Instructional Design: A Research and Development Agenda for Learning Designers
(2010)
In 2009-10 a series of Workshops was organized to focus on STEM learning design for young students and adolescents. The objective was to provide visionary leadership to the education community by: (a) identifying and analyzing the needs...
Using Assessment to Inform Teaching in a Physical Science Content Course for Preservice Elementary Teachers
(2010-10)
-emphasized traditional modes of teaching (e.g., lecture and verification-type laboratory activities) in favor of active learning through inquiry-based
instruction....
Learning to notice and teach English language learners in the elementary mathematics classroom : a case of four teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study presents data from an intervention study with third grade teachers who participated in professional development to learn to enhance their curriculum materials...
Responses of elementary students and their teachers to a world music preference survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
perspectives and concerns towards including world music in the curriculum, including lack of time. Their students' levels of interest and tolerance for the world music examples presented surprised them. Results of this study may be used to reassure teachers...
Becoming subjectivities : academic women in art education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
, 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...
Grade 4-6 student conceptions and utilization of informal and formal variable representations across mathematically equivalent tasks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
of variables presented in equations, but did not parallel normative algebraic solutions. For example, students treated the representation of the variables as different variables and consistently produced multiple solutions for each variable (e.g., y + y = 12; a...
The exploration and regulation of gender and sexual identities in literacy education /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
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...
Exploring tensions, identities, and equitable science assessment practices in undergraduate agroecology education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
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...
Teaching Against the Mystique of Science: Literature Based Approaches in Elementary Teacher Education
(2010-10)
School science experiences shape learners' attitudes and beliefs about science. Yet, school experiences often consist of reading from a text, memorizing scientific facts, or conducting “verification” type laboratories, and ...
Science Museums and Specialized Content Courses for Prospective Elementary Teachers: Implications for Learning to Teach Science
(2010-10)
This study explores opportunities for preservice elementary teachers to experience science teaching and learning in informal settings and how this complements their learning in a specialized content course for teachers. We examined survey responses...