Learning disabled students in special education
programs have not been demonstrating equal achievement
gains in reading when compared to their non-handicapped
peers.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects
of Accelerated Learning methods in teaching reading to ten
learning disabled middle school students in southwest
Washington.
Accelerated...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the student personnel
services rendered at a public two-year community college. The institution
chosen for the study was Lethbridge Community College, located
in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Six hundred and one people, representing seven population groups,
were randomly selected for participation in this...
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published their vision of active, problem-centered instruction with a goal of conceptual understanding in 1989. Fifteen years after these reforms were proposed the changes are reflected in school policy and elementary mathematics curriculum, but only limited change has actually occurred in classroom instruction....
The movement to reform mathematics teaching and learning in schools began in the 1980s. After dedicating vast resources to support reform efforts since then, the transition to improve mathematics teaching and learning in schools has not occurred. In the majority of mathematics classrooms teachers still rely on traditional teaching strategies...
For the past 100 years, the prominent instructional model for all public
education in the United States has been teacher/content centered with the intent of
covering a discrete body of knowledge in a given period of time. As the end of the
twentieth century approaches, natural, social, political, and economic...
This research addressed the role of educational technology associations as change agents within education with particular emphasis on issues of advocacy and leadership. Using a poststructural feminist lens and the metaphor of interview and analysis as storytelling, it explored the perspectives of nineteen individuals belonging to a national level educational...
The focus of this autoethnography was an in-depth analysis of the recorded experiences of a middle school math teacher's transitional development from classroom teacher, to teacher leader. The following research questions guided this study: (1) In what ways did the researcher’s view of self as a teacher leader change during...