Most research regarding information and communication technology implementation has focused on teachers' technology use for personal, administrative, and preparatory purposes. Very little is known about how technology is authentically used to improve active student learning and …
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Turkey and the United States are active members of the United Nations and NATO, and they both join crucial military and humanitarian operations intended to bring peace in different regions of the world. The study presented here identifies and compares these countries’ efforts fo…
This study examines the language and literacy experiences of Kurdish minority children during their first year of mainstream schooling in a southeastern village in Turkey. I employed ethnographic research methods (participant observation, multi-modal data collection, interviewin…
During the years 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed that students in Saudi Arabia had a below-average mathematics performance among 4th and 8th-grade students. The modern and innovative techniques and strategies of …
The purpose of this quantitative correlational research was to assess the extent to which preK-12th-grade (male and female) educators’ beliefs and knowledge regarding grade-level retention are related to their teaching experience, and grade level taught, at an international scho…
Autism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been studied comprehensively with a lot of new information being found out about its history, background and occurrence in Saudi Arabia. This study is prepared with the purpose of examining the use of special education methods such as th…
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…
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…