Browsing by Subject "literacy"
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)
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(2017-04-01)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation examines how teachers learn to implement translingual pedagogy in a language arts classroom. I analyze data from a five-week professional development study in which three middle school teachers learned ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe varying difference of definition and value of a body between a physician and patient has been a rising discussion within healthcare. The overarching issue is that physicians have lost their “empathetic” or caring touch ...
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(2019-07-25)Department: Special EducationStudents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) require intensive supports to make progress on literacy goals. These supports must often include methods to decrease challenging behaviors and increase ...
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(2022-08)This project investigates the conflicts that arose when the professional development organization Show Me Literacies Collaborative worked with school districts in and around St. Louis, Missouri. Mixed-methods research using ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2012-06-15)This capstone essay focuses on the role of motivation in the middle grades Language Arts classroom. I frame the essay through an investigation balanced on the importance of intrinsic motivation and its relationship with ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityAlthough making digital media involves movements of bodies, materials, and, often, mobile technologies, most literacy research on adolescents’ experiences with digital media relies on screened and sedentary perspectives ...
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(2012-07-25)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study provides qualitative findings about informational text writing in a prekindergarten classroom. First, I examined children’s understandings of informational text features. Second, I analyzed how science journals, ...
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(2023-03-25)Department: Special EducationReading and writing go hand in hand, students who struggle in reading are likely to struggle in writing. Yet, when we research interventions for students with reading difficulties and writing difficulties, we rarely combine ...
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(2015-04-30)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThis study examined the predictive value of orthographic processing versus orthographic knowledge for spelling proficiency. Third-grade students with typical language and literacy skills completed measures of orthographic ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-05)This study was a one-year investigation into the implementation of two pilot literacy curricula in Hamilton County Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Surveys, interviews, and student performance data were analyzed to ...
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(2016-05-12)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study explores the productive use of translanguaging in elementary classrooms where instruction is delivered primarily in English and teachers and students do not share proficiencies in students’ heritage languages. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-10-01)My Capstone examines video games, literacy and struggling readers. It is based on my coursework in Digital Literacies, readings, fieldwork with SURGE, and a case study of a twelve-year-old boy with attention-deficit ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis dissertation examines the ways in which six second grade African American males engaged in critical conversations. This qualitative study addresses three primary research questions: 1) What is the nature of small group ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016)While research has suggested that pretend play can give children invaluable experience in such literary practices as story ideation, creation, and renegotiation, character development, and reading and writing rehearsal, ...