Browsing by Author "Cardullo, Victoria"

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Constructing Meaning through Talk: A Research Study Examining the Use of Dialogic Discourse in Guided Reading to Promote Student-Centered Classroom Practices in Primary Classrooms

Finley, Stacie (2019-01-22)

Teachers have been tackling the best approaches to teaching reading comprehension for decades. The classroom teacher becomes a vital component in improving the critical thinking students must develop within academic settings. ...

An Exploration of Comprehension Instruction in Content-Area Elementary Classes

King, Lashae (2015-07-30)

Scores on national and international tests for students in the United States indicated that students are not performing proficiently in reading. Furthermore, students are not able to comprehend complex reading tasks, which ...

An Exploration of Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Science Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Noticing of Students’ Scientific Thinking

Dailey, Brandi (2024-06-26) ETD File Embargoed

The ability to notice students' thinking is essential for effective science instruction, and science teaching self-efficacy influences teaching effectiveness. This mixed-methods study explored elementary preservice teachers’ ...

Instructional Leadership in Writing: An Exploration of Elementary Principal Efficacy and Identities in a Neglected Subject

VanSlander, Jennifer (2021-07-02)

According to National Assessment of Educational Progress data trends spanning the past two decades, student achievement in writing falls below other subjects tested across grade levels. To be prepared for college and the ...

Instructional Strategies in Adolescent Literacy: The Process Sixth-Grade Science Teachers Use to Integrate Strategies during Instruction, and How Their Students Utilize Them

Klash, Erin (2017-04-26)

Instructional strategies are important components for facilitating active engagement in reading text. This comparative case study sought to determine what instructional strategies three sixth-grade science teachers used, ...

Making Teacher Thinking Transparent: An Examination of Teacher Think-Aloud Instruction

Woods, Sarah (2020-04-22)

Students need both knowledge of metacognitive reading strategies and how to effectively use these strategies to encounter successful reading experiences. There is growing research on the success of strategies (i.e. visualize, ...

Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Instructional Strategies when Comprehending and Instructing using Contextually Challenging Text

Szatkowski, Hannah (2019-06-20)

This qualitative case study explores the processes that occurred when pre-service teachers in an undergraduate elementary education literacy methods course were asked to interact with contextually challenging texts in a ...

Reading Their Stories: Exploring the Nature, Institution, Discourse, and Affinity Identities of Developmental College Readers through a Narrative Lens

Jones, Kimberly Fountain (2017-07-18)

Higher education is facing a challenge with as many as 60% of entering students at community colleges testing into one or more developmental level classes each year (Bailey & Cho, 2010, p. 46). This is a crisis that impacts ...

Will You Read It Now? The Intentional Instruction of E-textbook in Secondary Education

Clark, LeNessa (2016-12-12)

E-textbooks have generated attention in education and the expectation to use the technology has become a requirement rather than an option. The purpose of this mixed method explanatory sequential study was to explain the ...