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Creator:: Crisp, Matthew Scott
Abstract:: The emerging use of portable digital devices by students, parents and teachers, is forcing schools to develop real-time communication systems that integrate technology into the general operations of schools, and contemplate governing policies and procedures to sustain and guide the challenges of these new technologies. This study contributes to this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Education presented on May 26, 2009. Title: Modernizing School Communication Systems: Using Text

Creator:: Jeong, Yu Jin
Abstract:: Academic achievement of adolescent children is directly associated with their success in adulthood. Little is known, however, regarding how adolescents in immigrant families academically grow over time and what factors influence the trajectories. Drawing on the National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988 (NELS: 88), this study aimed to: 1) identify the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the growth change over time. Controlling for parental capital, the positive effect of parent- child

Creator:: Kieff, Judith E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the attitudes and preferences regarding home/school involvement strategies of 23 mothers of kindergarten students who had been identified as at-risk for failure in school and 18 mothers of kindergarten students who had been designated as peer models. Data were collected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: home/school involvement strategies, preferences for topics for parent education, and preferences for

Creator:: Pattison, Scott A.
Abstract:: There is growing evidence that children develop science-related interests in early childhood, before they enter school, and that these interests may have long-term implications for science participation and achievement. Although researchers have made headway in describing interest development in the preschool years, little is currently known about the proximal processes...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Scott A. Pattison for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science Education presented

Creator:: Roebber, Susan Merwin
Abstract:: In this qualitative study, ethnographic methods were used to identify parent funds of knowledge related to ocean literacy in a rural, coastal context. Participants included 16 parents of students in the teacher-researcher's third-grade classroom. Interactions between parent-child, parent-parent, and parent and the teacher-researcher were studied in order to determine factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: parent perspectives of their experience following participation in ocean literacy activities with their

Creator:: Dogaru, Cristian M.
Abstract:: This study used a nationally representative dataset of 21,260 kindergartners, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001a), and a conceptual framework of theories of cultural and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986) embedded in an ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 2005) to identify unobserved socio-cultural classes in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ? ........................................ 18 Family-School Interaction and Education-Related Parent Involvement ..................... 18

Creator:: Johnston, Tina Louise
Abstract:: The focus of this grounded theory research was to investigate the problems that those groups closest to students placed in mathematics classes by mathematics ability have and how those parties work to resolve the problems. The main problem found was a conflict between educators and parents over which students deserve...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Barry, Kate R.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to critically explore low-income women's experience as they negotiate post secondary education in community colleges. Three research questions explore the context through which low-income women have entered the college experience, what that experience is like for them, and how the community college experience has...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: low-income women’s participation in post secondary education, and low-income women’s issues and

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