This study presents a conceptual and evidentiary study pertaining to the micro and macro level factors influencing the achievement gap among migrant children from a cross-national standpoint. First, this study provides the most systematic investigation of the immigrant education…
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This dissertation focuses on the actions and interactions of young children’s responses as they negotiate and understand diverse perspectives. Borrowing from critical literacy frameworks (Janks, 2000; Lewison, Flint & Van Sluys, 2002) and social constructivism (Vygotsky, 1978) a…
African Americans have long struggled in this nation, they continue to endure hardship in the workplace, workforce and in the school systems. This study hopes to contribute to the body of research on closing the achievement gap. If education is the passport, then we have a respo…
Despite its potential to capitalize on children’s inherent curiosities about their worlds around them, elementary science is typically taught with either a transmissive model in which students are passive recipients of scientific knowledge or a conceptually incoherent model of d…
Reading is considered a foundation of learning, playing a vital role in the students' achievement at schools through the academic years. Teaching reading is a demanding task that requires extensive work and effort from teachers to develop reading and writing skills throughout th…
The extensive research recently completed by the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill determined that parents remain the biggest determinants in shaping a child’s faith that is strong through the teen years and their transi…
Teachers in Lebanese schools are still using outdated traditional strategies for instructing students with learning disabilities (LD). The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to understand Lebanese elementary teachers' perceived barriers to providing effective…
The purpose of this study is to investigate if the academic preparation received at a private university in Puerto Rico prepares elementary 4th to 6th grade teacher candidates to teach mathematics as required by the reform of mathematics education. This case study used various q…
The United Nations Millennium Summit was held in September 2000 and established eight world goals to be achieved by 2015. The second of these goals resolved that all boys and girls throughout the world will be allowed to receive a primary education through the fifth grade. This …
Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students’ comprehension of text (Palincsar & Brown, 1984; Palincsar, David…
This study argues that the existing segregation between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot schooling can be traced back to the period between 1920 and 1935, when crucial political and educational events shaped the course of subsequent educational development. These events, in con…
This case study explores the music-making and learning practices of an elementary student from Cyprus in different settings, inside and outside school. The musical knowledge of the 6th grade boy was gained from a diversity of music settings that covered a broad educational spect…
This research compares three groups of elementary-school children in Toronto by testing their deep lexical knowledge of specific words (implicit aspect) and grading their expression of such knowledge in a standard definition form (expressible aspect). Child participants were dra…
School effectiveness has been tied in research to a wide range of factors, such as Socio-Economic Status, teacher preparation, quality of instructional materials, funding, etc. Certain elements of the school such as climate, structure, interpersonal relationships have also been …
The purpose of this study was to examine factors related to Indonesian elementary teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching, and the effectiveness of a professional development program in improving their mathematical knowledge for teaching. Subjects consisted of 167 Indonesi…
This causal comparative study was designed to compare the mathematical performance of Grade 3 students in Provincial public and Islamic private schools in Ontario. Three hundred and fifty-eight third grade students' EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) mathematics …
North American children have a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. For children whose mother tongue is still being spoken at home, maintaining and advancing parental linguistic instruction is an ongoing effort. This effort must be upheld by the parents and other clas…
Bumping against dominant school stories of teacher as subject matter specialist and stories of mandated assessment that shaped the professional knowledge landscapes of schools in Turkey, I felt uncertain about how to make the lives of the youth I taught, and their families, part…
O presente Relatório apresenta um percurso formativo e investigativo, com o intuito da obtenção do grau de mestre em Ensino do 1. º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal do 2. º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. A constituição do Relatório divide-se em d…