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Analyzing how grade four teachers plan to teach inquiry-based curriculum materials and the influences on their preparation of mathematics lessons
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study documented how Grade 4 teachers plan to teach from an inquiry-based mathematics curriculum, and identified specific influences on planning. Previous studies of instructional decision-making yielded a framework for researching lesson...
Saudi teachers' perceptions on reading instruction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
' learning as well as functioning. There were tensions with the image of the teacher, teachers' dichotomy, and tensions with the scripted curriculum. It was also found that there was an emergence of issues of power and teacher identity....
Secondary literacy teachers' use of a Twitter chat community for voluntary ongoing professional learning /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
explored new ideas through public reflection and negotiation of meaning very little. Findings revealed that the nature of learning in this environment is personalized and supportive, but there were obstacles to learning, such as the voluntary nature...
Examining nursing students' understanding of the cardiovascular system in a BSN program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Secondary mathematics teachers' informal inferential reasoning : the role of knowledge structures for measures of center, spread and shape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
-case analysis (Creswell, 2013), a stratified purposeful sample (Patton, 2002) of nine teachers responded to the Goals and Outcomes Associated with Learning Statistics (GOALS-2) instrument (Sabbag and Zieffler, 2015), released items from the Levels of Conceptual...
A study of international baccalaureate science teachers' choices in curriculum and instruction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study was designed to investigate the choices International Baccalaureate (IB) science teachers make in curriculum and instruction. Data was gathered via a survey completed by IB science teachers who had attended either an April, 2007 workshop...
Meeting Rwanda halfway : the entanglement of matter and meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation arose from research following U.S. college students on a month-long study abroad trip to Rwanda to learn about the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Channeling...
Examining beginning biology teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and practice for teaching natural selection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The teacher is the most important school-based factor in student learning. Thus, in order to improve student learning, we must examine how teachers learn to teach. My overarching...
Transforming paradigms an a/r/tographical exploration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Artists are researchers and teachers. As an a/r/tographer, I live my research through the three lenses of the artist, researcher, and teacher. These ...
Examining college science teachers' belief systems about inquiry-based teaching in the context of a professional development program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The purpose of this study was to examine how college science teachers' belief systems about inquiry-based teaching changed through their learning experience in a faculty development program. The program was designed to support college science...
Understanding the development of a 6th grade science classroom practice of argumentation : synthesizing cognitive and sociocultural perspectives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent science standards have underlined the importance of engaging students in scientific practices for learning science ideas as well as develop understandings about the ways...
How teachers negotiated the meaning of next generation science standards (NGSS) through participation in a professional learning community /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
, there are few studies of mature, effective science teacher PLCs working without external support and few studies of teachers' efforts to negotiate the meaning of new standards and revise their curriculum. This instrumental case study framed by communities...
Instructional strategies used by developmental mathematics instructors in Missouri public community colleges to promote active learning : an analysis of the cognitive complexity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study sought to identify the instructional strategies used by developmental mathematics instructors in Missouri's public 2-year colleges to engage students in the learning process, determine the cognitive complexity of the instructional...
An examination of music student teaching seminars at midwestern universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This study was designed with two main purposes: (a) to provide researchers and educators with information about the structure and content of music student teaching seminars by gathering baseline data regarding current practices, and (b) to examine...
A study of elementary mathematics teachers' knowledge of equity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Currently, mathematics instruction in U.S. classrooms is far from achieving equity for African American students. Establishing an equitable classroom environment that results in student learning for African Americans requires specialized teacher...
Goals of instruction : a cross case analysis of five secondary mathematics teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and activities would go, and also held learning goals in both pure subject matter as well as affect goals such as that students come to value mathematics and perceive it as useful. Teachers monitored the attainment of their goals and were driven to continually...
"Writing down is a way of letting go" : individuals using writing to return to "remembered wellness"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This research studies how individuals in a graduate education course, examining the therapeutic uses of language, literature, and media, practiced these theoretical concepts in their own lives. A critical case study, this ...
Engaging with advertising media in a constructivist classroom : case study of a rural seventh grade class
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study examined the experience of rural seventh grade students in a communication arts class where advertising media was the focus, and how these young adults talked, thought, and wrote about advertising media. Data ...
How teachers adapt to curricular and structural change : a multi-case study of three middle school language arts teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
, curriculum, course assignments, teachers, teams, start time, and schedules, teachers at Smiley Middle School teachers experienced a radical change. Through interviews, blogs, professional learning team observations, and field notes, this qualitative case...
Investigating experiences that inform university instructors' specialized knowledge for teaching protein synthesis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
experiences lead to a change in university instructors' teaching? In what ways do university instructors learn to teach science through their experiences? And, what is the nature of the specialized teacher knowledge that informs science instruction? I...