Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Secondary education"
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Channeling Friendships across Social Types via Mediated Communication and High School Clubs
(2013-11-14)This dissertation is about how common contexts for extracurricular activities, friendships, and technology mediated interactions form social structures that are related to distinct civic experiences of high school youth ... -
The Critical Nature of Reader Identity and Its Relationships with Literacy Engagement, Motivation and Efficacy
Adolescents with disabilities often struggle with successes in high school due to reading comprehension difficulties. Reading achievement is impacted by many factors including motivations for reading, reading efficacy and ... -
Dropping Out and Dropping In: A Case Study of a Washington State School Districts' Efforts to Decrease High School Drop Out Rates
(2012-09-13)Defining and accurately portraying the high school dropout crisis continues to be a challenging issue. Though high school dropout rates have decreased in recent years, they continue to remain high amongst low-income, ... -
Justice in Practice: An Investigation of the Instructional Practices of LGBTQ Supportive English Language Arts Teachers
This dissertation study investigates the instructional practices of secondary English Language Arts teachers with strong intentions to be supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students. ... -
Learning from Text: Examining Teacher Thinking and Practice in AP Environmental Science
The ability to read and make sense of sophisticated subject-matter texts is an essential educational standard for navigating the twenty-first century. Although new standards emphasize critical reading and interpretation ... -
Learning to Participate through Role-Play: Understanding Political Simulations in the High School Government Course
This dissertation investigates simulations and role-play as best practices of democratic education. It asks: Do students' situational interest and frequency of simulations and role-play uniquely contribute to students' ... -
"Ms. Martin is secretly teaching us!" High school mathematics practices of a teacher striving toward equity
(2013-07-23)Attention to the pursuit of equity has been a growing priority for mathematics classrooms in the last two and a half decades. While classroom discourse has become a central feature of classrooms that strive toward equity, ... -
Students’ Judgments of Historical Significance in Singapore Schools: Positionalities and Narratives
Research has established that students’ ethnic, community, and national identities can influence their judgments on historical significance. Furthermore, it has demonstrated that students’ identities may incline them towards ... -
Using Science to Take a Stand: Action-Oriented Learning in an Afterschool Science Club
This dissertation study investigates what happens when students participate in an afterschool science club designed around action-oriented science instruction, a set of curriculum design principles based on social justice ... -
A Window into the Secondary School Day: Examining 10th Graders' Literacy Experiences Across English, Social Studies and Science
(2013-11-14)Adolescents are not meeting the increasingly sophisticated literacy demands of the 21st century. Research shows that students require instruction in middle and high school to successfully navigate and comprehend the range ...