Browsing by Subject "elementary"
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(2010-06-23)Department: Special EducationA large majority of students continue to fall below basic writing levels in spite of the existence of effective supplemental writing treatments (e.g., Self-Regulated Strategy Development model; SRSD; Harris, Graham, and ...
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(2019-09-13)Department: Special EducationThe capacity to read nonfiction text with understanding is of obvious and vital importance, yet many students struggle to do so. This randomized control trial extends previous research by contrasting the efficacy of a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-31)This paper presents a discussion of service learning, its benefits and struggles, its place amongst students in urban schools, and how to transition the common practice of service learning in high school to elementary ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)Multicultural mathematics acts as a link between the contributive notions of ethnomathematics and the practices of culturally relevant pedagogy. It challenges the common disconnect between mathematical concepts and the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-05-05)
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(2009-07-09)Department: Teaching and LearningThe study investigated the impact of teachers’ literacy-related beliefs on their participation in the professional development setting of literacy coaching. It also expanded current theoretical understandings regarding the ...
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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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(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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(2014-06-18)Department: Special EducationIn this study, 69 grade 4 students were randomly assigned to a writing to learn (n = 23), comparison (n = 23), or control (n = 23) condition. In treatment and comparison, students made predictions and recorded results for ...