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Pretto, Aneesha Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In North Carolina, the eligibility criteria for enrollment in Part C early intervention services do not exclude infants and toddlers based on the severity or laterality of hearing loss. As such, the state's early intervention population represents a widely diverse array of children ranging from those with minimal to profound hearing losses. While…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Severity (of Disability), Investigations, Toddlers
Phan, Olivia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Deficit-oriented research has ignored the strengths of urban adolescents of color, perpetuating interpretations that they are deviant and pathological (Spencer et al., 2006). Generally unacknowledged by problem-focused perspectives is how youths of color grapple with vulnerability to negative socialization messages, prejudice and discrimination,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Urban Areas, Racial Identification, Career Development
Silverman, Loretta H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The majority of college students are not ready for college-level math courses, which, when completed, have been shown to increase graduation and transfer rates among college students. To address this problem, the Math My Way (MMW) program was developed to integrate module-based curriculum and mastery learning approaches. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Control Groups, College Students, Grade Point Average
West, Ellen Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Each student has a unique learning style or individual way of perceiving, interacting, and responding to a learning environment. The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the prevalence of learning styles among undergraduate Sport Management Studies (SMS) students at California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U). Learning style…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Distance Education, Incidence, Web Based Instruction
Rojas, David Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Systematic differences among regional U.S. English speech are recognizable to native speakers to varying degrees. This has been demonstrated by researchers in perceptual dialectology who ask listeners to match a speaker to his or her dialect region. Machines have also been able to identify the regional origin of a speaker to some degree, although…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Phonemes, Identification
Thumann, Mary Agnes – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines depiction in American Sign Language (ASL) presentations. The impetus for this study came from my work as an instructor in an interpreter education program. The majority of ASL/English interpreters are second language learners of ASL, and many of them find some features of ASL challenging to learn. These features are…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Nonverbal Communication, Second Languages, Deafness
Gonzales, Leslie D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The notion of a multiversity was stamped into the higher education literature by Clark Kerr in 1963 when he spoke about the numerous purposes tied to U.S. higher education. Kerr highlighted how the University is often pulled in many directions at once, asked to fulfill promises of the cultural, educational, national, societal, and now, of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship
Andersson, Annica – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
This paper highlights a teacher's perspective when changing her accustomed and traditional way of teaching into a pedagogic approach philosophically inspired by critical mathematics education. The focus here is on the practitioner's identities during the teaching process, in a context of change. The research is socio-culturally grounded and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Identification (Psychology)
Wilson, Andrea; Wilson, Jon – Online Submission, 2010
(Purpose) After an extensive search, which included the Internet, four state Departments of Education, and national and state agencies for the gifted, were told by a national agency for gifted children that no standards, specifically for gifted preschool children, existed. The purpose of this paper is to create standards for a preschool gifted…
Descriptors: Gifted, Position Papers, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation
Mierzejewski, Cynthia S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Classroom integration of technology is a complex process that must include thought to the purpose of integration and a plan for the professional development of the teachers. The change in any instructional practice requires an effective professional development plan that best addresses the needs of the teachers. This study investigated the level…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, High Schools, Classroom Desegregation, Technology Integration
Barnett, Dori A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem area explored by this study is the identification of students with emotional and behavioral difficulties for special education supports and services under the criteria for emotional disturbance (ED). A review of the literature indicated that the problem of identifying students with ED was compounded by subjectivity and ambiguity…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Emotional Disturbances, School Psychologists, Evaluation Criteria
LDA Minnesota, 2010
This issue of "Learning Times" includes a feature on understanding dyslexia. Dyslexia is a brain-based, often inherited, disorder that impairs a person's ability to read. It is not the result of low intelligence, lack of motivation, sensory impairment, or inadequate instruction. Early diagnosis of dyslexia is critical, and a child can be…
Descriptors: Workshops, Professional Development, Summer Programs, Dyslexia
Stuit, David A. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2010
This study investigates the successes of the charter and district sectors in eliminating bad schools via dramatic turnarounds in performance and/or shutdowns. It identified 2,025 low-performing charter and district schools across ten states, each of which is home to a sizable number of charter schools. These particular schools were tracked from…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Districts, School Effectiveness
Pritchett, Serene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem. Through observation and the review of literature, students often receive inconsistent and vague messages about plagiarism from faculty. Marcoux (2002) and Roig (2001) found a lack of consensus between faculty concerning definitions and forms of plagiarism. Although some students develop skills in order to avoid plagiarism, almost half…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plagiarism, Student Attitudes, International Trade
Schalock, Robert L.; Borthwick-Duffy, Sharon A.; Bradley, Valerie J.; Buntinx, Wil H. E.; Coulter, David L.; Craig, Ellis M.; Gomez, Sharon C.; Lachapelle, Yves; Luckasson, Ruth; Reeve, Alya; Shogren, Karrie A.; Snell, Martha E.; Spreat, Scott; Tasse, Marc J.; Thompson, James R.; Verdugo-Alonso, Miguel A.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Yeager, Mark H. – American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
This Manual contains the most current and authoritative information and knowledge on intellectual disability, including best practice guidelines on diagnosing and classifying intellectual disability and developing a system of supports for people living with an intellectual disability. Written by a committee of 18 experts, "Intellectual…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Classification, Definitions
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