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Abram Estrada – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how end-of-course general education teachers in public high schools (grades 9-12) described cognitive fatigue during the preparation and implementation of standardized testing practices in a Texas urban public school district. Prior to this study, it was not known how Texas public…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Public Schools, High School Teachers, Fatigue (Biology)
Isaiah Lawan Cromwell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to address the lack of student engagement at Northeast High school by addressing the following research questions: (1) What are the current student engagement levels at Northeast High School? and (2) How can the level of student engagement at Northeast High School be improved? For this study, student engagement…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement, Barriers
Safwa Abdul-Aziz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students struggle with decoding and implementing feedback given to them on writing assignments. Researchers and instructors have used various technologies and strategies to improve students' uptake of feedback given on written assignments, one of which is a form of video feedback called screencasting. Research has been conducted on students'…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Secondary School Teachers
Mark Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Learning standards across the United States have increasingly called for history students to engage in aspects of "historical thinking," a term used to describe the complex disciplinary processes that historians use to make sense of the past. Although students are expected to learn these complex processes, little is known about how to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Thinking Skills, Validity, National Competency Tests
Brejwo, Carolyn Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Civic teachers are members of their community and are responsible for preparing their students to be future citizens. West Virginia is one of nine states that requires students to pass a class whose title includes the word "civic." All 12th grade students in the state must take a year long civic education course. The goal for the course…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Case Studies
Stein, Rachel S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Latino/as are an increasingly large subset of the United States population; however, they continue to be underrepresented in science careers. Because of this increase, research regarding Latino/as has improved, but there are still many gaps in regards to gender-specific predictors to pursue science careers. To address this lack of literature, the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Predictor Variables