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…
O presente relatório final surge no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo e em Português e História e Geografia do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (CEB) da Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém, sendo composto por duas partes. No que concerne à primeira parte, é apresentado uma…
No âmbito da unidade curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES), que integra o plano de estudos do Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º CEB e do 2.º CEB em Português e História e Geografia de Portugal, apresentamos o nosso Relatório Final de Estágio. Neste, procuramos, na primeir…
Este relatório tem três capítulos. No primeiro, documento a contribuição dos estágios integrados na Prática de Ensino Supervisionada do Mestrado em Primeiro Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no Segundo Ciclo do Ensino Básico para o desenvol…
Systemic racism in America is not an event but rather a chronic and longitudinal historical phenomenon of oppression on people of color. Systemic racism is rooted in every facet of American society: economic, housing, health, employment, and education. Public schools remain fert…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between sixth-grade students' liking for non-Western music and their attitude toward people from diverse culture/ethnic backgrounds. Subjects were predominantly white, middle class sixth-grade students (N = 321) in Minnes…
This study investigated how students learn in the classroom by tracing that learning back to its sources. A ten-day instructional unit that contained (1) a video presentation designed to enhance and/or activate prior knowledge, (2) textbook-centered learning activities, and (3) …
The ecological model assumes school, community, family, and friends shape child outcomes. Minnesota mandates comprehensive Early Childhood Screening (ECS) for preschool children including vision and hearing, and cognitive, language, motor, growth and speech, with optional screen…
This is a study about access to literacy and one school's ongoing struggle to afford this right to all of its students. The Tel-Aviv School in Israel has reinvented itself over the past 12 years, ascending from an educational quagmire to achieving national recognition for excell…
This study is primarily exploratory and descriptive, addressing two needs. First, it provided detailed descriptions of the manner in which elementary teachers facilitate children's learning in Saudi Arabian classrooms. Second, an important objective of the present study was to e…
Arab international transient students come to the U.S. in great numbers. Some of them come with some literacy experience while others come at a very young age and, thus, have no formal literacy experience in their native countries. Similarly, the majority of these students join …
There are findings from many countries that address the relationship between class size and student achievement, but there is a scarcity of prior research on this issue in Saudi Arabia. In an attempt to fill the void, this study examines the relationship between class size and s…
The study examined educational leadership behaviors among elementary school principals in Qasim region of Saudi Arabia. Seven independent variables using a survey questionnaire among a randomly selected sample from the identified population. Self-reporting elicited, first, criti…
The present study examined how the rhetorical form, "Not like now", was used by a traditional Kuwaiti storyteller. The expression, "Not like now", was used by the storyteller to imbue her stories with cultural, historical, and societal signification which served as a means to id…
The study analyses language policies and their effects on pupils' academic achievement in two types of primary education programs in Niger. A Hausa and French bilingual school, called Ecole Experimentale, and a French monolingual school called Ecole Lazaret Deux. The study uses …