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What Effect Does Homeschooling Have on Test Scores and Socialization of Children?
(2012)
Homeschooling has grown in popularity in the last decade. While public schools have requirements for attendance and standardized testing, homeschooled children and families have these things as options. There are some ...
How Valid Is The DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Test as an Indicator for Identifying At-Risk Readers and Documenting Their Progress?
(2012)
The passage of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2001, with its emphases on accountability, quality of instruction, and data-driven decision making, has created a national debate centered around the ...
Technology Coaching and Integration: Teachers' Perceptions of Successful Strategies
(2014-06)
Technology advancements have provided endless methods in approaching the way teachers present content, design class activities, and assess student learning. In an effort to integrate these new methods to both engage students ...
The Impact of Video Surveillance in a Select Tribal School
(2010)
Providing for the physical and emotional safety and welfare of children is the highest priority for schools across the country. Districts and administrators face a variety of challenges in developing and implementing ...
A Comparative Study of Folklore from Chinese Culture and Western Cultures
(2013-05-24)
Folklore, a genre of children's literature, is always considered as one of the most mysterious and interesting genres. Folklore is defined as stories that originated orally and have no authors. Given these qualities, ...
Using Universal Reading Achievement Data to Study the Effects of a Summer School Reading Program with Elementary Students in a Northern Wisconsin School District
(2014-12)
Summer slide in reading creates a substantial, cumulative gap over the school
years. Attendance at summer school is an intervention that can help prevent students from
summer slide in reading. It was hypothesized that ...
Working With Children And Their Drawings
(2012-12)
Understanding children?s drawings is a very complex task as it involves a lot of steps and practice. Also the relationship between the child and art therapist plays a roll into how accurate the understanding of the image ...
Parental Involvement and Student Success
(2013)
Home is a student's first classroom, and parents are a student's first teacher. School aged children spend 70% of their waking hours (including weekends and holidays) outside of school (Education, 2003). With such a high ...
Analysis of Two Vocabulary Strategies: A study to indicate which strategy, Verbal and Visual Word Association or Contextual Redefinition, is best suited for transferring new words into students? long term memory
(2012-12)
Data obtained from a college readiness letter sent by ACT indicated that students who took the ACT test from the upper Midwestern school observed for this study have had a decline from 22.4 to 21.5 on the English score for ...