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Education Equity for Low Income School Districts in Wisconsin
(2016)School budgets are being cut on every level throughout Wisconsin and other states. Due to current public school funding, the amount of income that schools are given to operate with is based on revenue caps calculated by ... -
Effective Implementation and Strategies for Culturally Relevant Teaching: A Guide for Elementary Teachers
(2016)Schools in America are faced with an ever-increasing rate of student suspensions, widening achievement gaps, and diminishing student engagement. Teachers struggle daily to meet the intensifying demands of academics, ... -
The Effectiveness of Computer Enhanced Instruction on the Rhythmic Ability and Assessment of Music Students
(2015)This research study determined whether computer--‐enhanced instruction in addition to teacher led instruction had an affect on the assessment of the rhythmic ability of instrumental music students, versus using only teacher ... -
The Effectiveness of No Child Left Behind
(2015)In 2002 a new law was enacted that changed the education system of America, No Child Left Behind (NCLB). NCLB sets standards for every student and school district across the nation requiring that each student reach a ... -
The Effectiveness of Reader’s Workshop
(2018)This study examined whether or not Reader’s Workshop was effective in improving student achievement scores, based on the scores in Reading and Language Arts found on the schools’ publicly available statewide report card ... -
The Effectiveness of Using Songs to Teach Chinese Tones and Vocabulary
(2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using songs to teach Chinese tones and vocabulary in short and long term in the introductory level Chinese classes at a Liberal Arts college. The investigator ... -
The Effects of a Conversation Station on Classroom On-‐Task Behavior
(2015)This investigation examined the effects of a conversation station in a special education classroom of 22 students. Ten of the students were randomly selected to have data tracked on the effect of the conversation station ... -
The Effects of a SMART Goal and PBIS Implementation on Documented Behaviors in African American Students and Students with Special Needs
(2016)Monitoring and managing student behavior is an ongoing struggle for teachers and support staff within schools, especially at the middle school level. Teachers are burdened with the struggle to educate children while at the ... -
Effects of Differentiated Instructional Techniques on High School Biology Academic Achievement
(2018)The purpose of this study was to investigate if consistent use of differentiated instruction techniques, including differentiated vocabulary and reading strategies, would improve student performance on a common summative ... -
The Effects of English Grammar Tests on German Students’ Learning Development and Use of Learning Strategies in a Communicative Setting
(2015)This mixed-method study examined the effects of short English grammar pre-tests containing contrastive linguistic input on learners’ cross-linguistic awareness and German acquisition in a communicative, target language-only ... -
The Effects of Explicit Semantic Radical Instruction on Beginner Level CFL Reading Comprehension: The Third Dimension of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
(2017)The present study examined the effects of explicit semantic radical instruction on beginner level Chinese foreign language learners’ overall comprehension by descriptively translating a given Chinese text. The study also ... -
Effects of Interlocutor on Modified Output of Japanese Language Learners
(2017)Recent research in second language acquisition has focused on the effects of interaction on learning by examining various factors such as types of tasks and learner proficiency levels. This study focused on one particular ... -
The Effects of Project-Based Learning on High School Girl's Attitudes Towards Chemistry
(2019)The goal of this study was to examine the effects of project-based learning in chemistry on high school girls’ perceived communal value of chemistry, personal communal values, attitudes and motivations in chemistry, and ... -
Eradicating English Language Learner Dropouts: A Comprehensive Framework for Public High Schools
(2015)The purpose of this study was to determine what prioritizing factors, with regard to the Five Essentials Framework proposed by The University of Chicago may help minimize dropout rates for English Language Learners in two ... -
An Evaluation of a Health Intervention for First Semester Freshmen
(2015)Studies have shown that exercise habits formed in college are maintained through post-graduation life. The purpose of this study was to present and evaluate a small group health intervention for use in a college setting. ... -
Female College Basketball Player's Perception Regarding Gender of their Coach
(2017)Female athletics have been on the rise since the passing of Title IX in 1972 (Kalin and Waldron, 2015). Since the increase of female athletics there has been more job opportunities for men and women in coaching female ... -
Gender Comparison of the Effects of Injuries on Athletes
(2018)The purpose of this research study was to investigate the emotional and psychological responses to injury in both male and female collegiate athletes. The study involved 126 male and 126 female collegiate athletes. These ... -
A Guide to a Healthy Player Coach Relationship
(2019)The purpose of this project was to provide information to beginning coaches and others new to leadership positions. This document contains information on the qualities a good coach should display. The idea that sports are ... -
Ideology in Education—A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and Western Ideolo gical Differences in Education from Are Our Kids Tough Enough? —Chinese School
(2018)Research on ideology in education has illustrated that ideologies are grounded in educational pedagogies. However, little is known about cross-cultural ideological differences in education. The researcher conducted a ... -
The Impact of an Intervention on Growth Mindsets in Education
(2015)Studies have shown the positive effects that growth mindsets can have in academic achievement. In this study, the researcher investigated the growth mindset scores of teacher participants, as well as the effects that a ...
