This study addresses the issue of a lack of math literacy skills that are necessary for academic achievement. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if the literacy intervention, Reading Apprenticeship (Schoenbach, Greenleaf, & Murphy, 2012), effects the student…
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This project seeks to equip fathers of Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee to shepherd their families in accordance with the Bible. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry of Beaver Dam Baptist Church and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis o…
The IDEAS curriculum and instruction model was designed to help secondary students better understand mathematics by incorporating the historical development of the subject into classroom instruction. IDEAS is an acronym that describes the components of the model: I (Introduce th…
The purpose of this project is to develop, teach, and evaluate a study of biblical church leadership as part of developing qualified ministry leaders at Crossroads Community Church in Carol Stream, Illinois. The curriculum was designed to develop ministry volunteers at the churc…
The purpose of this project was to write a premarital counseling curriculum for Christians preparing to get remarried. In order to write an effective curriculum, seventeen Christian couples in second marriages were interviewed. Their life experiences and how they overcame the ad…
This research study is an investigation into how children in public elementary schools are educated through social studies curricula into ways of understanding themselves and their relationships to the nation-state, the land, and people with whom they share the land. The questio…
The problem of student engagement and motivation has been of great concern for educators for decades. Recent federal mandates have resulted in many failing schools eliminating programs in favor of a return to the basics in an effort to boost test scores. Due to this narrowing of…
The city of Birmingham and its schools have experienced a tumultuous history – from a school system born out of deep-rooted segregation and racist policy, to one disrupted and transformed by the relentless and heroic efforts of Civil Rights leaders. Ensuing decades within the sc…
Immersive simulation technology has been incorporated into numerous training environments, including medicine, engineering, and marketing. The aviation industry, in particular, has a history of embracing technology to enhance training and has especially regulated the requirement…
In 2011, The Core French curriculum for Levels 1 through 5 were renewed; and Levels 6 through 9 were renewed in 2012. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of Canada released 94 Calls to Action to address the legacy residential schools left on Canadian Indigenous peopl…
Virtual Reality (VR) is poised to transform teaching and learning in higher education. With its immersive and interactive attributes, VR promises an enhanced teaching and learning environment for faculty and students. The purpose of this study was the creation of a training guid…
With changes in law and policy as well as the need and desire for education by Students of Color, colleges and universities have seen a significant increase in Students of Color on campus. Faculty demographics, however, remain disproportionate with this drastic change. Although …
The purpose of this case study was to examine how participation in an after-school hip hop pedagogy program influenced the social and academic lives of four African American male adolescents. The researcher viewed this study through the conceptual framework of culturally relevan…
Homeschool teachers and mothers are thoroughly invested in the moral formation of their children and are therefore concerned with finding various ways to teach them morals and virtue. How can literature cultivate virtue in readers? Most scholarship that focuses on moral developm…
This dissertation was designed to explore the factors that influence African American Men of Color to go into teaching and stay in education. This qualitative research explored 20 African American Men of Color and their reasons for choosing and staying in education. Participants…
To close a gap in the literature, this study sought to develop a deeper understanding of the processes museum educators use to create inclusive curricula on American slavery. The research design was a qualitative, descriptive, multicase study using data collected from a purposef…
The purpose of this paper is to study whether playing a subject-related game in class increases a student’s interest in the class subject, their perception of the learning climate, and their engagement in the classroom. The lens through which this research was focused was based …
There is growing evidence to suggest that many of today’s North American colleges and universities are pedagogically ineffective in preparing students personally, professionally and publicly. This widening gap between what we need and want of higher learning and what its educato…
Offering authentic college coursework to high school students, through dual enrollment programming, has been shown to increase college readiness, enrollment, persistence, graduation, and reduce cost and time to degree. However, limited research has been conducted on the dual enr…