Research Question. In what ways will providing a specific set of phonemic awareness activities such as sound blending, segmenting, and rhyming help my kindergarten students understand an early component to reading? Research Activities. This study explores the effectiveness of ph…
To determine the level of entrepreneurial organizational characteristics in Hawaiian public elementary schools, 3,816 teachers in 111 schools were surveyed using the Public School Entrepreneurial Inventory (PSEI). This survey was developed and used previously in Israel. This was…
This teacher research study examines the literary talk and classroom community that emerged during Book Club meetings, fishbowl discussions, and a Retrospective Reflection session which transpired in my fifth grade classroom over the course of two thematic units. Themes of cultu…
This thesis analyzes the failures of Pakistan's educational system and proposes concrete measures to reform it, drawing on local models that have proven successful. Specifically, it seeks to determine a link between U.S. security and a functional primary education system in the …
Cette recherche a mené à une étude exploratoire des représentations sociales d'enseignants de l'école primaire marocaine au regard des élèves ayant des difficultés d'apprentissage en mathématiques et au regard de leur intervention auprès de cette catégorie d'élèves. Le chercheur…
During the last three and a half decades of the twentieth century, there was a mass emigration of Iraqis to many of their neighboring countries, as well as the United States and other Western countries. The direct cause of this influx of emigration of Iraqis was because of their…
This qualitative case study sought to gain deeper understanding of the role the writing process approach played in developing the writing ability of five fifth grade Saudi Arabian students when writing in English as a second language. The study extended for five months in a Midw…
This research was conducted to profile the attitudes of elementary school teachers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia toward the inclusion of children with autism in public education. The study consisted of 11 independent variables, including gender, citizenship, age, marital status, level…
The purpose of this study was to examine the Arkansas K-4 grade elementary art teachers' attitudes toward the four foundational disciplines of discipline-based art education (DBAE), art making/studio art, art history, aesthetics, and art criticism, to determine their acceptance …
This essay seeks to understand the Ethiopian condition and to place the education policy debate within the social capital/social cohesion conceptual frame. The goal is to prescribe a macro education strategy that is responsive to local needs and external pressures, and one that …
This study examined perceptions of Arab American parents of children with special needs regarding communication with the school and professionals who work with their children. The Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States and had students with sp…
Virtually from the outset of the 1978-79 Islamic Revolution in Iran, scholars began to study the event from different social, political and economic angles. Yet, the rapid speed of the Revolution, its predominantly Islamic character, and the numerous changes that have occurred d…
This study analyzed the development of elementary teacher training during the late Ottoman era and establishment years of the Turkish Republic. Historical and political aspects of the elementary teacher training institutions, including the Village Institutions movement were cons…
The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe Turkish teachers' self reported perceptions regarding textbook adaptation strategies. Another purpose of this study was to determine the match between the textbook and the students' reading levels. In order to determine t…
dots nations are more often the consequence of setting-up a state than they are its foundation.\sp1 vskip9pt In 1923 the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed. Its leaders, who conceived of a unique entity following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and its defeat in World War I, e…
The primary purposes of the study was to examine (a) Turkish elementary teachers' beliefs towards teaching writing and their instructional practices, (b) how these beliefs and practices reflect or ignore aspects of the process approach to writing, and (c) what factors affects te…
In the present study we investigated the relative importance of phonological and orthographic skills in Persian children's reading and spelling development. Persian has a mixed orthography that allows one to study within one language characteristics typically found in shallow or…
Global environmental events are becoming increasingly important, because most of them enter our daily lives and somehow shape our everyday activities. Earthquakes are one of the most important environmental events affecting our life. Despite extensive media coverage, the public'…
The development of a general theory of spelling requires investigation across different orthographies and populations. However, research on early spelling development has teen mainly conducted in English, Spanish, and German, and has mostly focused on monolinguals. Thus, there i…