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Learning from and Teaching about Disaster: The Case of the April 2011 Tornado Outbreak
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Ray, Beverly; Hocutt, Martha – American Secondary Education, 2016
The purpose of this research was to examine how secondary teachers teach about disaster using the media during periods of declared natural disaster and post-disaster in their local communities. Issues of preparedness, pre and post disaster, were examined as well. Secondary teachers were queried in one public school system in the Southeastern…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Secondary School Teachers, Mass Media Use
Advisor Knowledge of Disability-Related Needs, Laws, and Accommodation Requirements in Postsecondary Academic Advisement Practices
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Young, Rebekah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Since the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, enrollment of students with disabilities in higher education has risen. In 2007-2008, approximately 11% of undergraduate students reported having some type of disability (U.S. NCES, 2012). Since disability disclosure is optional for students in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Needs, Laws, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Influencing Students' Pronunciation and Willingness to Communicate through Interpersonal Audio Discussions
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Lepore, Cindy E. – Dimension, 2014
This article discusses a study that investigated pronunciation development in second language learners by monitoring willingness to communicate variables. Students (N = 37) in a second-semester, introductory French course participated in online interpersonal audio discussions with classmates through VoiceThread. Pronunciation development and…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French