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Direct linkTalbert, Summer K. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Integrating reading instruction and content area curriculum has been suggested as a method of improving students' reading comprehension and access to content knowledge. Less clear are the specific practices that should be used across the curriculum to improve comprehension and build knowledge simultaneously. The two studies in this dissertation…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Marino, Michael A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A study was conducted to investigate the extent to which previous science achievement affected student performance in traditional hands-on and virtual laboratory environments. A sample of 70 first-year college students was employed in a counterbalanced A-B-A-B experimental design. The study spanned four instructional weeks of laboratory…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Virtual Classrooms, Science Laboratories, College Freshmen
Amanda Grenell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Executive function (EF) predicts children's academic achievement; however, less is known about the relation between EF and the actual learning process. Furthermore, more research is needed to better understand how different aspects of the learning environment interact with EF to influence learning. The current dissertation includes two studies to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Charles, Abigail Sheena – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the knowledge and skills that biology students may need to help them understand statistics/mathematics as it applies to genetics. The data are based on analyses of current representative genetics texts, practicing genetics professors' perspectives, and more directly, students' perceptions of, and performance in, doing…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Statistics, Mathematics
Bennett, William Drew – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study is an investigation into the science literacy of college genetics students who were given a modified curriculum to address specific teaching and learning problems from a previous class. This study arose out of an interest by the professor and researcher to determine how well students in the class Human Genetics in the 21st Century…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Writing Assignments, Homework, Prior Learning
Elam, Jeanette H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to compare the academic performance of students enrolled in coeducational instruction and single-gender instruction. Within this framework, the researcher examined class type, gender, and racial/ethnicity using the sixth grade CRCT scores of selected students in the areas of mathematics and science. The fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Middle School Students, Females, Coeducation
