This dissertation presents three case studies of collaborative interaction in a third-grade dual-language classroom during writing instruction over the course of a school year. The study addresses the notion of developing student voice, and how instruction can be seated so that …
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The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a multicomponent diagnostic test, the Arithmetic Word Problem Solving Ability (AWPSA) Test. The AWPSA test is to be used by sixth-grade teachers in Malaysia to identify students needing remediation in solving arithmetic word …
Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…
This is a study in education administrative structure. It is an investigation of a modern upazila parishad (county council) and deals with modernization of primary school administration in the traditional culture of Bangladesh in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy. T…
This study is an attempt to identify predictive factors in parental choice between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish Day Schools. More than 650 families from four communities representing eight schools responded to a questionnaire which addressed original motivations for choosing…
What grade children begin to cheat, whether older students report that they have cheated more than younger students have, and whether boys report that they cheat more than girls were investigated. Data on ways in which students cheat and their ideas about how to prevent and stop…
This investigation replicated and extended a study conducted by Medina (1990). The study examined the effect of music on the acquisition and retention of story vocabulary for kindergarten and first grade students in a selected school in eastern Pennsylvania. A second factor, the…
This research examined the relationships between eighteen selected teacher, parent, pupil, and school variables and each of three dependent variables: pupil Jewish knowledge, Jewish involvement, and Jewish attitudes. Five separate instruments, adapted and modified from previous …
This PDE is a narrative of my eight years as a Waldorf school class teacher at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School in western Massachusetts. It is a personal account of teaching experiences, curriculum, and the children in the group. The emphasis is on personal growth and…
This is a descriptive study designed primarily to provide a comprehensive account of elementary classroom teachers' beliefs about three art education paradigms in Lagos State, Nigeria. These paradigms are, child-centered, discipline based art education-centered (DBAE) and the Ni…
Becker Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan is a school wide chapter program with 79 percent of its students on free or reduced lunch. This unique population of students consists of 93 percent second language learners, mainly of Arabic descent. Becker has experienced this yea…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the current situation in Cyprus elementary classrooms regarding computer technology integration. The study examined how Cypriot elementary teachers use computers, and the factors that influence computer integration in their classroom prac…
Morality, thought, and culture as represented through language have been the focus of research within the past decade. Little research has, however, been directed toward linguistic encoding of morality in children in general, and in children from Arabic communities in particular…
Weekly Reader—an educational and news-oriented publication used in American elementary schools—was originally titled My Weekly Reader. It was first published in September, 1928, by American Education Publications, in Columbus, Ohio. Initially, there was only one version, which e…
There is abundant research evidence that grade repetition endangers the educational system, mostly affecting children from poor families who drop out easily when they have often been retained in the same grade. In Nicaragua, where this thesis research was conducted, the average …
Argumentation is a key practice in many disciplines and, as such, is emphasized as an important skill in K-12 education. Despite its relevance to all content areas, little is known about how the same students engage in argumentation in different contexts. Furthermore, there is l…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how American Indian elementary school teachers describe their cultural identity as an influence on culture, knowledge, and power in a Bureau of Indian Education school in the Southwest. Cultural identity was the co…
This study sought to understand the motivating factors that influence Black fathers’ engagement in their 5- to 11 year-old children's academic learning experiences within an urban context. Employing identity theory as its theoretical framework and interpretative phenomenological…
The qualitative research that forms the central focus of this dissertation is an instrumental case study of an elementary school in Netanya, Israel which successfully sustained a nationally acclaimed school reform process through a transition of principals. The study explores se…