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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The purpose of this study was to examine whether the use of a middle school flexible interdisciplinary block schedule would increase eighth-grade students' reading scores, as measured by the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Educators are responsible for helping students develop academic and behavior skills and for creating safe environments that promote these outcomes. Achieving these outcomes has become increasingly difficult due to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted to address unequal access to technology by K-12 schools and public libraries in the United States. The federal government has since spent over $21 billion in the E-Rate program. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)The daily realities of racism and structural oppression in the lives of urban Black teens create an ill-fated, normative experience that can forever influence their adolescent development. Other chronic stresses, such as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This study demonstrates a fully Bayesian approach to multilevel/hierarchical linear growth modeling using freely available software. Further, the study incorporates informative prior distributions for fixed effect estimates ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This exploratory investigation examined the relationship between states' educational standardization and voter turnout, using cultural and critical theory lenses. The study documented the problem of low voter participation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)The role of interest in assessment on student performance and engagement is an area of research that has yet to be fully examined. I explored models of assessment grounded in Item Response Theory (IRT) to identify the model ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)School-Wide Positive Behavior Support has emerged as an effective approach to impact challenging student behaviors at the individual level while building and maintaining a positive learning environment for all. Office ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)The reading achievement of approximately 12,250 third- and fourth-grade students, measured by multiple reading curriculum-based measures, was tracked for two school years and used for longitudinal growth analyses. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)In this dissertation study, the efficacy of Vocabulary Enhanced Systematic and Explicit Teaching Routines (VE SETR) as a vocabulary intervention was examined for first grade Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELLs). ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)There is a consensus that today’s students in the U.S. are not prepared to fill the almost 1 million unfilled computing jobs in 2024. In the wake of the Computer Science For All initiative in 2016, advocacy groups, such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)With millions invested in educational technology, what is its impact on student achievement and engagement? This question formed the basis for a review of the current literature on the impact of iPads and other instructional ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation presents the results of an exploratory descriptive case study of the Moses Journaling for Equity Experience, a self-reflective intervention for public charter Montessori middle school teachers. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Measurement literature supports the utility of alignment models for application with state standards and large-scale assessments. However, the literature is lacking in the application of these models to curriculum-based ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Oregon’s Kindergarten Assessment (KA) is mandatory for all incoming Oregon kindergarteners starting in the 2013-14 school year. One component of Oregon’s KA is the Child Behavioral Rating Scale (CBRS), which Oregon has ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The purpose of this study was to explore the linguistic architecture of instructional language used during first grade read aloud lessons. The participants were from the CTL Year-3 Read Aloud study. The study’s random ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)Underrepresentation of women and minorities in the science, technology, and engineering (STEM) fields is a perennial concern for researchers and policy-makers. Many causes of this problem have been identified. Less is known ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This is a study of the statistical difference in post-secondary attendance between high school graduates and 16- to 18-year-old GED recipients controlling for parental socioeconomic status, 10th grade test scores in math, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Teaching is a complex and fundamentally collaborative process, through which knowledge and skills are acquired as a result of repeated interactions between teachers and students. The effectiveness of these interactions ...
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(1994-12)The purpose of this study was to understand how Mexican-American community college students achieved academically in relation to their sociocultural variabilities. The project extended Tinto's model of persistence. My ...
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