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Race, schools and opportunity hoarding: evidence from a post-war American metropolis
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-01-02)Opportunity hoarding is a sociological concept first introduced by Charles Tilly. This article explores its utility for historians by examining efforts to exclude different groups of people in a major American metropolis ... -
Racial equity by design: forming transformative agency to address the racialization of school discipline
(SAGE Journals, 2022-02-21)Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem whose patterns change from one context to another. In order to develop systemic solutions that are responsive to local contexts, school ... -
Racial equity by design: Forming transformative agency to address the racialization of school discipline
(SAGE, 2022-02-21)Racial disproportionality in school discipline is an enduring systemic problem whose patterns change from one context to another. In order to develop systemic solutions that are responsive to local contexts, school ... -
Reading poetry for improved adolescent oral fluency, comprehension, and self-perception
(Wichita State University, 2009-05)This study was designed to explore the effects of oral fluency instruction and strategies on struggling adolescent readers’ prosody, comprehension and self-perception as readers. Additionally, this study sought to determine ... -
Relations among socioeconomic status, age, and predictors of phonological awareness
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2007-08)PURPOSE: This study simultaneously examined predictors of phonological awareness within the framework of 2 theories: the phonological distinctness hypothesis and the lexical restructuring model. Additionally, age as a ... -
Reorganization of 9A grammar based on the Morrison theory of unit learnings
(Wichita State University, 1931-08)Some of the defects of the present organization are: (1) that information gained in the classroom functions little if at all outside the classroom, (2) that the pupils assume a "get by" attitude and consider the performance ... -
Scientization of professional teacher knowledges and construction of teaching methods
(Routledge, 2021-10-12)This article explores how the idea of teachers as agents of change is historically constructed through the institutionalisation, secularisation, and normalisation process of professional teacher knowledges. Authors ... -
Searching for common ground: Two teachers discuss their support for and concerns about the inclusion of LGBTQ issues in English methods courses
(Kansas Association of Teachers of English, 2012)The genesis of this article grew out of our shared experiences working with preservice English teachers and our differing perspectives regarding the benefits and challenges of including the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, ... -
Self-advocacy levels in college TRIO participants and their collegiate non-TRIO participating peers
(Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)Self-advocacy is, essentially, one's ability to represent themselves or their interests. Consider self-advocacy like a circle with two prongs; those prongs would be self-determination (Ryan and Deci, 2000) and Self-Efficacy ... -
Sentence writing intervention for at-risk writers in upper elementary grades
(Wiley, 2021-09-22)Fluent production of a variety of grammatically correct sentences is essential to overall writing quality across genres. Sentence-production skills become increasingly important as students prepare to transition from the ... -
Social, professional and educational Networks on the Web: comparative analysis of main features
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)Online social networks (OSNs) have changed the web as a source of information into a web of people, social web. Social networks are not purely technology-driven. They depend on the human nature and can be described as ... -
Special education in Kenya evolution or revolution: comparison with the British system of special education
(Wichita State University, 2009-05)Disability is not inability. A common phrase used so many times. What are we doing to prove this phrase right? The purpose of this thesis was to examine the plight of children with disabilities in Kenya, what systems have ... -
Student driven projects and effects on motivation
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2011-05-04)The purpose of this study is to determine if student choice of projects would increase their motivation and engagement. Prior research has indicated that students will be self-motivated to work hard on a project when it ... -
Study in the use of audiobooks for reading in gifted students
(Wichita State University, 2009-05)This study explored the question of whether using recorded texts in conjunction with written texts might improve gifted students’ reading comprehension. Participants were thirteen gifted readers from two elementary ... -
TAM + ARCS = SNT framework for higher education
(IGI Global, 2019-10)This chapter studies the challenge and issue of developing a sound social networking technology (SNT) framework to affect positive student engagement and consequently effective learning. The author aims to enable educational ... -
Teaching young students with autism to write
(Wichita State University, 2012-07)Young students with autism and other developmental delays face specific challenges when learning to complete academic tasks, including writing. Through a single subject study, the author examined the use of multiple methods ... -
Thank-you notes as a means of nurturing a community of writers
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2021-11)When her professor modeled a talking circle writing feedback activity, a preservice teacher decided to adapt the strategy for the high school students in her practicum placement. -
The "Marvel"-ous nature of science: Using superhero movies to teach methods and values in science
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The correlation between mathematical knowledge and dimensional analysis in chemistry
(Wichita State University, 2013-12)The purpose of this research was to determine whether or not students in high school chemistry have the prerequisite math skills, the application of equivalent fractions to unit conversions, needed to work dimensional ...