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Sophia Lall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Word finding difficulty is a frequently reported subjective cognitive concern among persons with Multiple Sclerosis (pwMS). Word-finding relies on several information retrieval processes, including search and retrieval from the conceptual store, the phonological store, the syllabary, as well as other stores of information. Neuropsychological…
Descriptors: Diseases, Language Fluency, Semantics, Psycholinguistics
DeGennaro, Dana N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study aimed to determine if metacognitive strategies help increase reading comprehension in fifth grade students. Participants included a control group of 31 fifth grade students who were not taught metacognition reading strategies, and a comparable treatment groups of 43 fifth grade students who were taught metacognition reading strategies.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Control Groups
Phillips, Kristin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With childhood obesity on the rise and the need for American children to be academically successful compared to peer nations, it is imperative that physical activity become part of the typical school day for all elementary aged school children. There is an understanding that physical activity not only benefits physical fitness and health, but that…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Obesity
Duginske, Jacquie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Social emotional learning and the impact it has on academic achievement has been studied. The focus on previous research was tier one social emotional learning. This study researched the affect tier two social emotional learning has on academic achievement for targeted students identified as having a need for tier two social emotional learning. A…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Gunnell, Jonathan P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the inclusion of nonessential music in an instructional multimedia presentation affected learners' ability to recall information in retention, cued-retention, and transfer cognitive measures. This study tested the coherence principle of multimedia learning which holds that the addition of…
Descriptors: Music, Multimedia Instruction, Recall (Psychology), Memory
Lloyd, Jason D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Approximately 60% of classroom students have insufficient math skills. Within a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework, teachers can implement core differentiation strategies targeted at improving math skills of an entire class of students. Differentiation programs are developed in order to target academic skills of groups of students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Skill Development
Wallace, Duane Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2018
STEM education reform and climate change awareness are two of the United States' most challenging educational issues. When integrated into curricula, citizen science projects have shown the ability to increase STEM interest and enhance climate change understandings in high school students. This quasi-experimental study investigated the approach of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Weinkauff Duranso, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is evidence that participating in physical exercise reduces stress and the risk of many physical maladies. Exercise is also correlated with higher levels of approach motivation, or a tendency to approach challenge as an opportunity for growth or improvement instead of an opportunity for failure. To date, most research on this relationship…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Stress Management, Correlation
Van Drie-Yockey, Sandra Jayne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) use student evaluations of teaching (SET) to evaluate and improve teaching quality; to gather data for faculty, department, or institutional planning; and to provide data on the students' satisfaction with their educational experiences. As a cost-saving measure, many IHEs have moved to providing SET in an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Online Courses, Online Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Copeland, Armon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study site of a transition nursing program included a single tertiary medical center agreed to serve as the study site is a 335-bed, not-for-profit, facility located on the Florida "Treasure Coast". Participants must have been employed by the study site as a Registered Nurse (RN) not more than 30 days before the enrollment period of…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Nurses, Nursing Education, Clinical Experience
Rizer, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Mathematics education is a critical part of instruction for students around the globe. The foundation for understanding basic mathematical concepts begins early in life. Preschool classrooms can provide the early skills in mathematical reasoning that will be needed later in life. In this study, the author sought to determine if the use of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Education, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic
Hocker, Tami – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study's purpose was to determine whether instruction in growth math mindset led to change in perceptions of 18-22-year-old at-risk students in math mindset, math anxiety, and view of math. The experimental curriculum was created by the researcher with the guidance of experts in mathematics and education and focused on the impact of brain…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Anxiety, At Risk Students, Charter Schools
Simmons, Stephanie Yvette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the impact of a self-regulatory skills course on the academic achievement and self-efficacy of 11th-grade students. The researcher compared intervention and control groups participants' pre- and posttest scores on the General Self-Efficacy Scale and the Learning and Study Skills Assessment Inventory-High School version. Scores…
Descriptors: Self Management, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Grade 11
Avant, Sherice Brake – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The overall goal of the present study was to develop, implement, and test the effectiveness of a curriculum designed to improve spatial thinking amongst preschool children. Specifically, the study explored the effects of shape-based training on 4-year-old children's ability to disembed and whether the training transferred to improvement in mental…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Transfer of Training
Falcon, Evelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine if there is any relationship on reading comprehension when background classical music is played in the setting of a 7th and 8th grade classroom. This study also examined if there was a statistically significant difference in test anxiety when listening to classical music while completing a test. Reading…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Correlation, Reading Comprehension, Grade 7