• Effects of a task-based methods/practicum sequence on secondary mathematical knowledge for teaching 

  Glaze, Patricia Edge (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  There has been a call for reform in the teaching and learning of mathematics that requires moving away from passive student learning and memorization to active participation and exploration; however, mathematics teaching ...
• Preservice teachers' stories from the literacy landscape: engaging adolescent readers & negotiating the professional knowledge landscape 

  Banks, Pamela A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  This narrative inquiry sought to report and explore the lived experiences of four preservice teachers who took part in a teacher education program at a public university in the southeastern United States. Specifically, ...
• A case study of one school’s reform efforts to improve math instruction through coordinated professional development 

  Sarrell, Astin Mobley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  For the past three decades, mathematics research has indicated the need for high quality mathematics instruction that includes both ambitious and equitable practices, as well as continuous, innovative learning opportunities ...
• Authentic assessment and individual student achievement in the choral classroom: a case study 

  Hearn, Elizabeth R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Assessment in the large choral ensemble music classroom continues to be a widely examined topic among both practicing music educators and music education scholars. This instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) explored the ...
• “It’s not just some place anymore”: an exploration of the lived experiences of preservice teachers engaged in place-based read alouds 

  Evans, Dana Michelle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Place-based instructional practices can be applied to literacy instructional techniques through reading aloud in local community places. In today’s rapidly changing informational landscapes, communication and comprehension ...
• Mentors' and mentees' perceptions of a system-wide mandated mentoring program for first-year teachers 

  Smith, Leann Sherree (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

  Throughout the United States school systems are aware of the teacher shortage. The projected need to fill 2.2 million positions by 2010 will increase throughout the educational field, especially in areas of high poverty ...
• The influence of text conditions on fourth graders’ comprehension of life science text 

  Kaczor, Crystal Diana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the extent to which text condition influences reading comprehension of life science text for 72 4th grade students and to understand their meaning making of each text ...
• The influences of ESL and content teachers' collaboration on teachers' learning and ESL students' participation: a case study of middle school mainstream classrooms 

  Giles, Amanda Kathryn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  This study explored how ESL and content teachers’ collaboration influenced content teachers’ learning to plan for and teach ESL students in mainstream content classrooms and ESL students’ participation during the collaborative ...
• The implications of using lesson study as a professional development model to support graphical literacy in second grade 

  Morrison, Karen Michelle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  This study sought to determine the implications of using lesson study as a professional development model to support graphical literacy in second grade students. This mixed methods embedded study gathered information from ...
• Elementary mathematics instructional coaches: qualities of qualified mathematics specialists 

  Nalu, Nicolette (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  This mixed methods study analyzed the content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and leadership knowledge and skills of elementary mathematics specialists (EMSs); in addition, the study examined EMSs’ ability to select and ...
• The Eldridge (Alabama) Baptist Academy 

  Robinson, William Elijah (University of Alabama Libraries, 1947)

  Eldridge Baptist Academy was one of the chain of mountain schools operated by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. These schools were part of the Academy movement in education and exerted a worthy ...
• Examining physics teachers’ formative assessment knowledge: a many-facet Rasch model approach 

  Stephens, Marilyn Maxwell (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This study describes a sequential, exploratory, mixed methods approach for the development of an instrument to measure physics teachers’ formative assessment knowledge of force and motion as an important component of their ...
• Engaging the disengaged: detracking English education for 9th and 10th grade students 

  Kusta, Charly Porter (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This critical ethnographic qualitative case study uses a critical theory lens to discover the implications of academic tracking in a southeastern secondary school and to explore detracking English education for historically ...
• Can individual music preferences be influenced by imposed artificial music personality ingroups? 

  Stegall, Jonathan Hirin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate whether assigning nonmusic majors to artificial music personality ingroups influences their individual music preferences. Participants were recruited from undergraduate nonmusic ...
• The effects of different mathematics course progressions on student mathematics achievement throughout the high school transition: a mixed methods study 

  Richey, Ginger (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This study applies life course theory (Elder, 1998) to understand the effect of different mathematics course progressions throughout the high school transition period. The purpose of the study was two-fold: to investigate ...
• Career identity development of secondary choral music teachers 

  Cook, John Benjamin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This study sought to examine factors that contribute to ongoing career identity among secondary choral teachers, identify whether or not a relationship exists between career identity and job satisfaction, and determine ...
• Childersburg and its school during the first two and one-half years of World War II 

  Bumpers, Eula Barnes (University of Alabama Libraries, 1944)

  The problem of this thesis is to collect, to synthesize, and to interpret interrelated facts pertinent to the expansion of Childersburg, Alabama and its school during the first two and one-half rears of world War II.
• The effects of world war II on the schools for white children of Baldwin County, Alabama 

  Moseley, Stephen Henry (University of Alabama Libraries, 1948)

  Baldwin County, situated in the southernmost part of Alabama between Mobile and Perdido Bays, has a million acres of land and a long shoreline with both gulf coast and bay shore. Since it is semi-maritime in economy ...
• The influence of study-abroad experiences on in-service Chinese college EFL teachers’ identity 

  Zhao, Yan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  The purpose of this study was to explore how in-service Chinese college English teachers produce and reproduce their identities within their study-abroad experiences in terms of their beliefs and classroom practice. ...
• Reading motivation and primary grade teaching practices 

  Sartain, Jessica Fuller (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  This study sought to explore reading motivational practices implemented in local, primary (kindergarten-second) classrooms. The purpose for this study was to fill an existing gap in the literature pertaining to reading ...

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