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Instrumental Jazz Ensemble Programs in Alabama High Schools
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to survey the instrumental jazz ensembles of Alabama’s public high schools during the 2008-09 academic year. Since existing data on high school jazz ensemble programs in Alabama ...
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 ...
A Life Preserver for the 'Sink or Swim' Years: An Investigation of New Teacher Obstacles and the Impact of a Peer Support Group
(2008-09-09)
The high number of teachers leaving the profession after only a few years of teaching has created a need for teacher education programs and school systems to address the obstacles new teachers are facing and look at ways ...
Transcript Analysis and Teacher Study Group: Improving Comprehension Instruction
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers’ participation in a teacher study group and transcript analysis would have an effect on the reading comprehension scores of their students. The 6 teacher participants ...
The Effect of Risk Level and Group Size on Student Phonemic Awareness Achievement
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of the study was to determine if small group phonemic awareness intervention results in equal or greater phonemic awareness achievement than one-to-one tutoring dependent on a students risk level for reading ...
The Effectiveness of DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency as a Predictor of Reading Comprehension for High- and Low-Income Students
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of this two-part, non-experimental study was to examine the predictive nature of reading fluency scores in relation to reading comprehension scores and determine if the associations between these scores were ...
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 ...