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Teacher Attitudes And Perceptions Of The Influence Of Professional Development On Minority Student Achievement In Reading
(Education, 2014-03-12)This qualitative study is written from a phenomenological standpoint using Van Manen's (1990 ) hermeneutic lived experiences of the participants. Fourth grade teachers from a large urban school district in the southwestern ... -
TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS THAT HELP BRIDGE THE SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT GAP FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2021-08-16)English language learner (ELL) students account for 19.6% of the Texas public school system (Texas Education Agency, 2019). National and state assessment data showed a learning gap between ELL students and their non-ELL ... -
TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF LOOPING IN RELATION TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(2019-12-05)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand better the lived experiences of seven elementary looping teachers. Specifically, their perceptions of whether or not the participation of looping facilitated ... -
TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL CULTURE AFTER THE CHANGE FROM A SEMESTER SCHEDULE TO A TRIMESTER SCHEDULE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2018-12-03)Principals newly assigned to a campus often begin their work by talking with staff, reviewing data, and evaluating the organizational structure with which they were entrusted (Daresh & Alexander, 2015). Common areas for ... -
Teacher Self-efficacy In A Project-based Learning (PBL) Classroom
(Education, 2014-09-17)Preparing students, in the K-12 pipeline and in higher education institutions, will require new skills, soft skills, to ensure success in a 21st century workforce (Wagner, 2008). Soft skills, defined as being able to ... -
Teachers' Orientation To Teaching And Their Perceived Readiness For 21st Century Learners
(Education, 2013-03-20)In a 21st century world where students will need mastery of both core subjects and applied skills, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the congruence of teachers' orientations to education and the 21st ... -
Teachers' Perspectives on the Efficacy of Inclusion for the General Education Student
(2016-05-11)Laws require special education students to be educated in the least restricted environment, which often means placing special education students with their general education peers in inclusion classroom settings. Inclusion ... -
Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities
(2018-08-28)Following the material and ontological turns and working within the recent conversation applying posthumanist theory to education and educational research, this dissertation argues that professors can materialize immediate, ... -
Teaching/writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition
I began by attempting to fill a gap I observed in the preparation of the novice teachers whom I supervised. I created a teaching apprenticeship program in order to give preservice teachers opportunities to enact the theories ... -
Techniques for Spatio-temporal Analysis of Trajectory Data
(2016-09-09)The goal of this thesis is to develop novel techniques for the analysis of spatio-temporal trajectory data. Recent advances in tracking devices such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile phones have resulted in an ... -
TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE ULTRASOUND-SWITCHABLE FLUORESCENCE IMAGING
(2017-08-14)Novel approaches to the improvement of ultrasound-switchable fluorescence (USF) imaging—a relatively new imaging modality that combines ultrasound and optical imaging techniques—have been proposed for early cancer detection. ... -
TECHNOLOGY INCREASES EFFICIENCY IN THE WORKPLACE, BUT OFTEN CREATES CHAOS IN THE PROCESS
(2017-06-06)There is a multitude of technology solutions used in the typical workplace, aimed at increasing efficiency, but often chaos is created in the process. Can this chaos be reduced or eliminated? This paper seeks to answer ... -
Technology-based Learning On At-risk High School Students: An Evaluation Of The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Technology Center After-school Program
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-04-22)Objective. High school students across North Texas are failing to meet the academic standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In response, after-school programs have been implemented to support cognitive and ... -
Tectonic processes and continental hydroclimate during the Laramide deformation in the central Rocky Mountains
(2017-05-12)The central Rocky Mountains in western U.S.A. is a geologic province formed by the low-angle subduction of the Farallon oceanic plate under the North American continental plate during the latest Cretaceous–early Eocene ... -
A Tectonic Reconstruction Of Accreted Terranes Along The Paleo-Pacific Margin Of Gondwana
(Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-07-14)The southern oceanic margin of Gondwana was nearly 40,000 km long or 24,854.8 miles. The southern margin was the result of the Terra Australis orogen. Spanning 18,000 km or 11,184.7 miles and is proposed as one of the ... -
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION AND SCHOOL OUTCOMES: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS
(2019-05-06)TDV is a significant social problem that has adverse effects on teens’ health-related behaviors and academic achievement. Several studies have examined the association between TDV and health-related behaviors, and TDV and ... -
TEENAGE CYCLISTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND ITS ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURES
(2021-05-03)Background: Cycling is a cost-effective means of transportation. Many teenagers cycle to go to schools and ride in neighborhoods. Cyclists are more vulnerable to injuries and fatalities than motor vehicle drivers. With the ... -
Teenage Waist-land: Social And Environmental Determinants Of Childhood Obesity
(Social Work, 2012-07-25)In the past three decades, childhood obesity has emerged as a growing concern for authorities in diverse disciplines. Authorities in law, economics, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, education, and social work have dedicated ... -
Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'connor
(English, 2007-08-23)ABSTRACT Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to ... -
Temperature And Frequency Dependence Of Thermal Impedance In Dielectrically Isolated SiGe HBTs
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Silicon Germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) have been designed to cater the demand of high speed circuits having applications in wireless and optical communication. Due to higher cut-off frequencies ...