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…
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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…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) cooperative learning model on students' mathematics achievement and their perceptions of classroom environments in rural primary schools within the Yogyakarta Special Territo…
This study explored the use of children's nonfiction trade books in social studies instruction. A split classroom of fourth and fifth grade students that applied informal education participated in this descriptive study. Three research questions guided this study to determine: (…
In a learner controlled program, where learners are given control over instructional decisions to direct his or her learning activities, strategies are not embedded in the instruction. Therefore, learners are required to self-direct their learning. How do learners direct their l…
This paper supports a performance by children's voices using unison and three-part treble music. Folksongs from widely contrasting cultures in their unique native languages was the focus of this masters recital. Unison pieces for this performance included: "Three Yoruba Native s…
This study explored school effectiveness in mathematics and science at the fourth grade using data from IEA's Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Fourteen of the 26 countries participating in TIMSS at the fourth grade possessed sufficient between-school va…
The purpose of this study was to develop a recommended content base for a course of study for a D-4 music methods course to be used in the College of Basic Education in Kuwait. Recommendations are based upon information obtained from the administration of a survey covering curre…