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Defining the Importance of Employability Skills in Career/Technical Education
(2008-09-09)
This study was designed to determine the degree to which Alabama business/marketing educators perceive the Alabama Career/Technical Curriculum Core course objectives are important in designing instruction to teach employability ...
The Effect of Text Illustrations on Young Children's Vocabulary Acquisition and Construction of Meaning During Storybook Read Alouds
(2008-09-09)
The effectiveness of illustrations for increasing students’ vocabulary knowledge and construction of meaning during storybook read alouds had been studied extensively. Although decades of research have suggested that ...
Comprehension Strategy Instruction with Teacher Read Alouds for First Graders
(2009-02-23)
The purpose of this experimental study was to examine the effectiveness of comprehension strategies instruction delivered through teacher read alouds on the reading comprehension abilities of first grade students. ...
Becoming Acquainted with the Faces of Words: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Students through Storybook Readings
(2009-02-23)
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of storybook readings with explicit instruction of target words on the vocabulary acquisition of primary grade students. The secondary focus of the research sought to ...
Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual
(2008-09-09)
Writing conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. ...
Using Hyperlinked Scaffolding to Support Student Work with Text-based Source Documents as Part of a Problem-Based Historical Inquiry Lesson
(2008-09-09)
Although many social studies education experts recommend the use of resource documents as part of history education, many social studies teachers are reluctant to utilize these historical resources. One reason for this ...
Differences between high and low level preservice teachers' instructional conversations with elementary school students: A grounded theory study
(2008-09-09)
This grounded theory study attempted to explain differences observed in preservice teachers’ instructional conversations with elementary school students using an instructional framework and explicit conversational scaffold. ...
Acculturation and Achievement in English among Chinese Immigrant Adolescents: A Comparison of Two Populations Which Vary in the Density of Speakers of Chinese
(2008-09-09)
The present study was conducted for the purposes of addressing how differential L1-speaking population density affects the acculturation status of two cohorts of ethnic Chinese adolescent respondents with ages at testing ...
The Relationship Between Training and Retention in a Volunteer Organization
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of the study was to provide information that would lead to a better understanding of retention and thereby improve the retention rate of Civil Air Patrol cadets. The research problem of the study was to identify ...
An Examination of the Effects of Recess on First Graders Use of Written Symbol Representations
(2008-09-09)
Recess is a construct that is slowly disappearing from curriculum in America’s elementary schools. Instead of engaging in free play during recess, children are being expected to perform more structured tasks aimed at ...