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Brittany S. Reid-Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the influence of K-12 STEM education on the retention rates of Black women pursuing STEM majors in higher education institutions in Texas. The problem addressed in this study is the unknown influence of K-12 STEM education on Black women majoring in STEM in Texas higher education institutions. This research aims to describe…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Bradley Michael Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Agricultural education is critical in addressing complex problems around food and agriculture systems. One such method for educating citizens about agriculture is postsecondary agricultural education programming. Specifically, experiential learning is widely used at the post-secondary level to achieve powerful, goal-oriented, academic learning.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Knowledge Level, Retention (Psychology), Reflection
William G. Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To date, most classroom-based research into the learning of a third language (L3) in the US has examined patterns of acquisition among various groups of bilinguals. Situated mainly within the context of "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" (PSS), studies typically group learners based on the sequence / age of onset of their main background…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Portuguese
Nouf Fahad Alshreif – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study investigated multilingual writers' prior L2 writing knowledge transfer and how it relates to multilingual writers' metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulation. Specifically, this study aimed to 1) explore how multilingual writers transfer their prior L2 writing knowledge, 2) investigate multilingual writers' metacognitive…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Undergraduate Students, Metacognition
Elmore, Traci Le – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to explore how to raise awareness of, validate, and value the diverse knowledge bases that mother-prospective teachers have based in their prior experiences from within their families and backgrounds. Using a funds of knowledge (FoK) for teaching mathematics (Aguirre et al. 2012; Civil, 2007; Foote, 2009; Gonzalez, et…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preservice Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Knowledge Level
Jolie Renee Woodson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While it is well established that pedagogies purposefully linking subject matter to students' cultural contexts and prior knowledge can help students learn subject matter, little is known about practices for so doing in undergraduate biology courses enrolling substantial numbers of racially, culturally, and otherwise diverse students. This study…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Prior Learning, Science Teachers, College Faculty