Ashley Dean and Professor Barbara Smith, Counseling Psychology and Special Education Penilla can be found along a back road, half way up a steep hill on the outskirts the urban city Iași, Romania. From the outside, the building’s yellow panels look much newer than the blanket of cement that seems to cover every other structure within […]
Equipping Teachers with Democracy
Kathryn Davis and Dr. Byran Korth, Early Childhood Education The purpose of this project was to research and compile recommendations for developing positive teacher-student relationships in order to better prepare prospective teachers to establish a democratic classroom. We have addressed this challenge through researching and compiling positive teacher-student relationship recommendations, along with seven specific democratic […]
Story Time: Improving Oral and Literacy Skills in a Second Language
Krysta (Rubio) Belliston and Professor Ray Graham, Teacher Education In this generation, the demand for education has been steadily enforced year by year. Since English is an internationally spoken language, parents and children alike want to improve their eligibility and employability through an English-language education. Guatemala does have some programs for students to learn English as […]
Sleep Habits and Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Mukono, Uganda
William C. Baldwin and Dr. Julie Hite, EDLF Department, College of Education Following the traditional British system of schooling, the school system of Uganda is set up under a format that compels students to learn, study, and prepare themselves for advancement to the next respective level by way of national examination. The system is divided […]
Mom, Dad and Me: A Video Etnograpy Case Study
Julie Thompson and Dr. R. Carl Harris, Instructional Psychology and Technology Video Ethnographies bring together video clips, audio clips as well as text to create a case study on a CD-ROM. Our Society is turning towards computer-based education, and this case study fits the mold of one of the desirable ways for students to learn. […]
EDUCATION IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO
Angel G. Orozco Chavez and Dr. Ted Lyon, Education Education: important, yes; beneficial, extremely; yet for a people where a disproportionate and discriminatory rate of progress seems to prevail, educational opportunities are scarcely available. The people of Mexico five in a place where the rich seem to speedily move up the ladder of success, wealth, […]
The Efficacy of Social Language Intervention on Children with Specific Language Impairment—A Pilot Study
Sarah Johnson Mueller and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology In this pilot study, I investigated the efficacy of an experimental social skills intervention program for children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). As there is a limited amount of research related to the treatment of the social skills of these children, it was […]
Nature of Instruction and Physical Environment that Support Process Writing in Elementary Classrooms and Further Research
Elizabeth Yates and Professor Bradley Wilcox, Teacher Education Purpose The purpose of this project was data analysis for a study on elementary writing instruction, specifically this aspect of the project examined the connection between the physical environment of the elementary classroom and the quality and occurrence of writing instruction. The project as a whole was directed […]
Heritage Language Speakers: Developing an Important Resource
Elise Williams and Professor Ray Graham, TELL Department The goal of this project was to begin to create a curriculum which will enable Spanish teachers to help heritage language speakers (those who grew up speaking Spanish in their homes) to develop academically in their native language (L1). The secondary goal of this project is to […]
Spanish Vocabulary Online Profiler (SVOP): A Linguistic Tool for Literacy and Second Language Acquisition
Maria Sanchez Wals, Katherine Washburn, Nathan Glenn, and Professor Ray Graham, McKay School of Education Main Text According to research, a reader needs to understand at least 95% of running words in a text in order to comprehend the text and to learn new words from context (Hu & Nation, 2000; Nation 2006). In an effective […]