• 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 ...
• Examining the influence of physics focused professional development on advanced placement physics teachers 

  Ogodo, Justina Anietem (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  There is a critical need to improve the pedagogical content knowledge of in-service physics teachers because of the large population of under-qualified teachers in the physics classroom. The need is even greater for the ...
• Linking classroom environment with at-risk engagement in science: a mixed method approach 

  Collins, Stephen Craig (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  This explanatory sequential mixed-method study analyzed how the teacher created learning environment links to student engagement for students at-risk across five science classroom settings. The learning environment includes ...
• An investigation into adult ESL learners' self-regulated learning strategies and second language reading 

  Sun, Mingda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  The current study explores language learners' use of reading strategies and views reading as an act of engaging in and producing meaningful discourse from shared experiences as framed by sociocultural theory. This study ...
• The effect of expert guided eye gaze on novice instrumental music teachers' observations of middle school band rehearsals 

  Todd, Eleanor Danielle (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine and compare the eye gaze of novice and expert instrumental music teachers observing videos of middle school band rehearsals, and (b) to develop and evaluate a possible ...
• Lesson study as professional development within secondary physics teacher professional learning communities 

  Collins, Tonya Monique Nicki (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Two Professional Learning Communities of physics teachers from different high schools voluntarily participated in Lesson Study as a means of professional development. The five teacher-participants and one participant-researcher ...
• A history of The Alabama Choral Directors Association 

  Stark, Krystal Anne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  The Alabama Choral Directors Association (AL-ACDA) began in 1972 as a fledgling organization with a limited number of members. AL-ACDA’s first president was James Elson (1974-77), Chairman of the Fine Arts Department at ...
• Elementary social studies instruction: documenting teachers' perceived use of integrative practices 

  Ross, Sharon Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  This study utilizes qualitative methodologies, specifically case study inquiry through interviews, observations, and lesson plans to investigate how and whether four sample elementary teachers used integrative teaching ...
• Facilitators' perceptions of facilitation in the problem-based learning mathematics classroom 

  Ingram, Shelia McGee (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

  Despite the significant amount of research on problem-based learning (PBL) in medical education and gifted education, there is only a scarce amount of research on this instructional approach in secondary mathematics ...
• Stories from a professional learning community of teachers: PLC as thirdspace to generate ways of learning and being 

  Evans, Victoria Leigh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

  In this narrative inquiry, stories were collected from a small group of science teachers collaborating as members of a professional learning community (PLC) in a local high school. This is qualitative research with a ...
• The influence of text messaging on measures of student writing: a meta-analytic review 

  Everett, Amy Kathleen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  The popularity of the cellular telephone among students from elementary school to college has become increasingly evident; students use text messaging so frequently that many people both inside and outside of academia ...
• International teaching assistants' professional identity development at a US University: a multiple case study perspective 

  Wang, Hao (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

  Informed by Critical Theory and Poststructuralist Theory and the intersections of agency, power, ideology, discourse, capital, and language, this study investigates how three ITAs construct their professional identities ...

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