Browsing UWRF Graduate Research Papers by Title
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Enhancing reading scores with home-to-school connections
(2013-11-25)The purpose of this study was to increase literacy scores through improving home to school connections. This was done by sending home literacy bags, which included language experience journals, reading calendars, "I Can ... -
Essential one-year physics curriculum
(2011-12-09)In the rural school settings of Northeast Wisconsin, many teachers begin to teach physics without complete licensure, training in classical physics, or knowledge of best-practice principles in the physics field. This ... -
An Evidence-Based Approach to Develop Listening Skills and Pragmatic Knowledge
(2017-11-13)This paper outlines one way to integrate pragmatic development into an English as a Second Language (ESL) class, focusing on listening skills. Pragmatics is the aspect of language that focuses on how users choose among ... -
Examining the Effect of an Educator’s Positive Behavioral Modeling on Executive Functioning in Elementary-Aged Children
(2021-09-08)Of the many educational theories that exist on how children learn, modeling is an important component in the classroom when children are given the chance to observe behaviors of the peers and adults in their environment. ... -
Examining the effects of fluency interventions on student progress towards grade-level goals
(2013-11-11)The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of two different fluency-based reading interventions as determined by fluency progress monitoring rates of participants and teacher-perceived usefulness toward ... -
EXPERIENCED MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS: OVERCOME CHALLENGES TO RECLASSIFY
(2026)This literature review presents a middle school instructional unit demo designed to help Experienced Multilingual Learners (EMLs), also referred to as Long-Term English Learners (LTELs), in developing the academic language ... -
Exploration for globalizing critical pedagogy in the Korean middle school context: toward critical co-teaching praxis between local and native-English speaking teachers
(2011-03-29)Through this paper, the author highlights the necessity of applying CP in the Korean English educational context on three aspects: to overcome national inferiority attached to the Center English; to maximize students' class ... -
Exploration of self-identification through the mask form and world culture
(2011-11-18)Mask-making is much more than merely a devoted pastime of ancient cultures and elementary school projects. It is the intention of this research paper to explore the historical background of various cultural masks and their ... -
An Exploration of Upper Elementary Student's Experiences with Math Practice Using Choice, Slef-Checking, and Non-Didactic Manipulatives
(2024)The purpose of this action research was to explore how upper elementary students in a Montessori classroom experience being offered choice in their math practice materials, as described by the students themselves as they ... -
Exploring the Development of a Proposal for Sustainability Summer Camp
(2015-12-17)Challenges such as climate change and decreasing natural resources bring increased focus on the goals of sustainable development. The 21st century will need people with the specific knowledge and problem solving skills to ... -
Exploring the Impact of Sleep on Reading Comprehension
(2025)This study explored the relationship between sleep duration and reading comprehension among a small class of 5th and 6th-grade students at a Catholic School in the Midwest. The primary research question examined whether ... -
Extensive reading conjoined with writing activities as an effective component of English as a second/foreign language programs
(2010-03-12)In this paper, I will try to show how ER in a second and foreign language has become a useful and motivating way of language teaching. I will first argue that reading as a L2/FL and ER are effective ways of fluent reading. ... -
Factors affecting homework completion among students
(2012-10-08)This study explored factors affecting student homework completion - individual skills of language, math, and reasoning along with motivation, quality of the assignment, teacher feedback, and the environment in which homework ... -
Fluency Development Through Timed Repeated Reading
(2025)This action research study explored the impact of repeated reading on fluency. Fifteen third grade students participated in three one-minute timed repeated readings per week in order to investigate the impact of such ... -
Formulaic sequences for improving oral fluency
(2013-04-08)In the English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, the focus is often on teaching reading, writing and grammar skills while little time is spent teaching speaking skills. This ... -
Fractions for welders
(2012-08-01)Successfully teaching elementary school and middle level students how to understand and deal with rational numbers has been a source of exploration for many years. Specifically, many researchers have examined best practices ... -
From Perinatal Through Preschool: Empathy in the First Plane of Development
(2020)The development of empathy in early childhood contributes to moral development, which affects justice and ultimately, society. This research team contends, corroborated by the most current evidence available in this field ... -
Fuel Up to Play 60 program collaborative learning project guide
(2013-05-31)In summer of 2012, I realized the need for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board to create a curriculum for the Fuel Up to Play 60 program - a youth wellness program created by Dairy Marketing Inc. in partnership with the ... -
The Future of Public Education: A Free Appropriate Public Education for All Students
(2020-05-22)This paper examines the challenges facing the public school system as it attempts to live up to the promise to provide a “free appropriate public education” to all of its students. The funding mechanism for public schools, ... -
Generating functions: a topic for post-AP test study
(2013-08-08)Many teachers of AP Calculus find themselves facing a dilemma at the end of the school year. The AP Exam, the event for which their students have spent the year preparing, is completed, but the school year is not. In our ...