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Finding a Crystal Stair: Exploring the Turn-Around Phenomenon Experienced by African American Urban Male Adolescents in High School
(Virginia Tech, 1997-11-03)
The educational disenfranchisement of many urban, African American male adolescents aggravates the complex social and economic issues which America must reconcile. Two significant behaviors resulting from young Black men's ...
A Descriptive Study of the Design Influences and Role of Students' Needs on the Selection of Course Content In Higher Education
(Virginia Tech, 1997-08-21)
College faculty are recognized as experts in their academic disciplines with a wide range of knowledge about their disciplines. As a manifestation of their academic freedom, they have assumed responsibility for folding ...
Effects of Two Multimedia Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs on Vocabulary Acquisition Of Intermediate Level ESL Students
(Virginia Tech, 1997-11-11)
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programs developed earlier for vocabulary acquisition employed mainly word-list pedagogy and could not present information in a real world context. Advancement in computer ...
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Teachers' Participation in 4MAT Fundamentals Training and Teachers' Perception of Teacher Efficacy
(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-24)
The relationship between teachers' participation in 4MAT learning style training and their perception of teacher efficacy was investigated three ways. Teachers who participated in 4MAT Fundamentals training were surveyed, ...
Trade and Industrial Education: A Climate For Reform
(Virginia Tech, 1997-05-05)
The purpose of this study was to assess the climate for the adoption of a proposed reform model for secondary trade and industrial (T&I) education in Virginia. Vocational administrators and T&I instructors beliefs about ...
Insights Into the Process of Guiding Reflection During an Early Field Experience of Preservice Teachers
(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-17)
The purpose of this investigation was to gain insights into
the process of guiding reflection during an early field
experience. Four preservice teachers' (PTs') reflection on
teaching was guided by the Reflective Framework ...
Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
(Virginia Tech, 1997-12-01)
This study explores the intersection of two major conceptions in higher education: professors' folk pedagogies and teaching's moral dimension. Folk pedagogy is the accumulated set of beliefs, conceptions and assumptions ...
In Their Own Words: Using Retrospective Narratives to Explore the Influence of Socio-Cultural and Contextual Factors on Discourses About Identity of Self-As-Principal
(Virginia Tech, 1997-06-11)
This study explored how socio-cultural and contextual factors influence construction of identity of self-as-principal. Bakhtin's theories of intertextuality, self and other, and utterance and the theories of Mead, Dewey, ...
The Relationship Between Perceived Physical Competence and the Physical Activity Patterns of Fifth and Seventh Grade Children
(Virginia Tech, 1997-06-30)
This study examined the relationship between the perceptions of
physical competence and patterns of physical activity of 83 5th and 7th grade
children in one school in rural southwest Virginia. Gender and grade level
differences ...
On-Line Teaching and Learning: A Description of the Development of The Media Technology and Diversity Online Course and Its Electronic Discourse analysis
(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the
events of the first iteration of the Media Technology and
Diversity course with an in-depth analysis of its electronic
discourse. In conceptualizing the viable ...