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Direct linkNaah, Basil M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students who harbor misconceptions often find chemistry difficult to understand. To improve teaching about the dissolving process, first semester introductory chemistry students were asked to complete a free-response questionnaire on writing balanced equations for dissolving ionic compounds in water. To corroborate errors and misconceptions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Chemistry, Equations (Mathematics), Misconceptions
Wall-Marencik, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed-method study provides an analysis of student teachers' transition from a dual licensed special and general education program into beginning special education teaching. This two-wave investigation highlights developmental stages during student teaching, differences in experiences between special and general education student teaching…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Student Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Mixed Methods Research
Liu, Yucong – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Information Technology (IT) business value research is suggested as fundamental to the contribution of the IS discipline. The IS research community has accumulated a critical mass of IT business value studies, but only limited or mixed results have been found on the direct relationship between IT and firm performance. Extant studies mostly focus…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Networks, Innovation
DiDomenico-Sorrento, Tara M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The aim of this survey research study is to describe and analyze how building-level high school administrators (BLAB) view the roles and functions of professional school counselors (PSCs), particularly as they relate to the National Model of the American Counseling Association (ASCA) that was developed from the ASCA's National Standards. Online…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Role, Models, Administrator Attitudes
Burton, Shannon Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation was an exploratory study in the understanding of the campus internationalization process by professional academic advisors at a large research institution with an institutional strategic plan for internationalization. If academic advising is an instructional process by which the learning outcomes of internationalization are…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Teaching Methods, Strategic Planning, Phenomenology
McWaine, Wendell Lamar, II – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between registration status and the persistence, end-of-semester GPA, and course success for African American males in a suburban community college system. This study also sought to determine if there was a difference between the persistence, end-of-semester GPA, and course…
Descriptors: African American Students, Two Year College Students, Males, School Registration
Curtis, Todd A.; DiFabio, Mark L.; Fortuna, Jodi L.; Lauze, Kathleen M.; McCoy, Tina H.; Nikas, Kathryn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Schools seeking to increase student achievement often employ professional development strategies to institute instructional reforms, yet research offers little guidance on how leadership behaviors might support professional development aimed at district reform and instructional change. This qualitative case study examined the following research…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Case Studies
Procek, Cara – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study explored how one middle school in a suburban New Hampshire town translates existing models of leadership into practice and how teachers experience these differences in practice. The research examined how school leaders balance formal and cultural models of leadership to affect change on a day-to-day level. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Middle School Teachers, Experience
Bohnstengel, Robert E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Charter schools are deregulated institutions that are provided considerable autonomy in order to spur innovation, yet little is known about their governance practices. The studies of charter school governance that do exist, however, typically concern cases of charter school failure. The causes of charter school failure are often clear and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Governance, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy
Cousins, Claudia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this single-site case study was to explore and describe community college students' perceptions of linked courses instructors' use of Chickering and Gamson's (1987) Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education within student learning communities and students' perceptions of how important the principles were in helping…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Active Learning, Student Attitudes, Writing Skills
Crawford, Pamela Sharp – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches' epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Vignettes
Hogue, Myrna L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A strong partnership between a school and the surrounding community leads to school success. Schools can be more successful with community involvement and engagement than if functioning in isolation. Community engagement leads to greater academic achievement of students. Utilizing qualitative case study methods, this study focused on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Stakeholders, Community Involvement, Constructivism (Learning)
Stevens, Karl B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the experiences of instructional designers and professors during the online course development process and to determine if their experiences had an effect on the process itself. To gain an understanding of their experiences, open-ended interviews were conducted, seeking descriptions of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Best Practices, Data Analysis
Zhou, Qiaoying – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Academic achievement and student participation in physics are lower than desired. Research has shown that there is a shortage of college students entering science and technology fields such as physics. E-learning may provide the technology-oriented Net Generation learner an option for taking courses such as physics in a course modality with which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physics, Academic Aptitude, Student Participation
Farrar, Cathy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As part of the National Science Foundation Science Literacy through Science Journalism (SciJourn) research and development initiative (http://www.scijourn.org; Polman, Saul, Newman, and Farrar, 2008) a quasi-experimental design was used to investigate what impact incorporating science journalism activities had on students' scientific literacy.…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Program Effectiveness, Accuracy, High School Students
