UWRF Graduate Research Papers (formerly "Plan B"): Recent submissions
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Sleep Education in the Preschool Years
(2022)The purposes of this study was to measure sleep practices and attitudes about sleep in preschool age children in a Montessori classroom. The researcher interviewed and observed 19 children from a class of 28 students and ... -
Montessori Early Childhood Teachers’ Preparedness to Teach Mathematics
(2022)The purpose of this action research project was to learn about early childhood Montessori teachers’ feelings and beliefs about mathematics and teaching math, and their awareness of current research regarding the importance ... -
The Impact of Nature-Based Sensory Experiences on Outdoor Behavior
(2022)Current literature provides ample evidence to support that contact with nature can have a multitude of positive effects on people’s well-being including the learning and development of young children. Furthermore, variations ... -
Student Conferencing, Goals, and Perceptions of Success
(2022)The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research project was to study how individual student conferencing could impact student’s perceptions of individualized goal attainment. The study took place in a public ... -
Impact of Social Emotional Learning in an Urban Public Montessori School
(2022)The purpose of this study is to discover the impact a social-emotional learning program may have on an Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom. The study was motivated by the researcher’s experience of seeing the effects ... -
The Implementation of Practical Life Works Targeting School-Specific Skills
(2022)The purpose of this action research project was to study the implementation of practical life skills targeting school-specific skills. This study took place in a Children’s House classroom at a public Montessori school ... -
Supporting Evidence Based Writing in the Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom: The Interplay of the Dynamic Guide and Original Materials
(2022)This qualitative phenomenological study focuses on the development of evidence-based writing skills in the upper elementary Montessori (9–12-year-old) classroom. This study traced the lived experience in the classroom ... -
The Impact of Handwork as a Practical Life Exercise in the Upper Elementary Montessori Classroom
(2022)The desire to learn with our hands is an innate human trait. Sociocultural theory presented by Lev Vygotsky laid the foundation of the importance of hands-on learning, which is still prevalent in current trends within ... -
Creative Drama and its Implications for Language Leaning and Teaching
(2022)Creative Drama for teaching English as a second or foreign language has been observed to provide many benefits for heleoing leaners improve proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Creative Drama, for ... -
Importance of Studying Poetry in Lower Elementary Classroom
(2022)This project explores the importance of teaching and studying poetry in a lower elementary Montessori classroom. The purpose of the project is to examine students’ interest and involvement in reading, writing and memorizing ... -
Normalization and its Relation to Peace Education Using a Sampling of Montessori Preschools from Around the World
(2022)Montessori education is known as peace education. Normalization is one of the most significant concepts within Montessori education and which herself identifies as the “most important result.” The purpose of this study ... -
Teaching Affixes and Cognates to Enhance Spanish ELL’s Lexical Competence
(2021)This paper discusses the current strategies for vocabulary instruction in the United States K-12 system. It introduces a new method for Spanish-speaking students to use cognates as root morphemes within affix instruction. ... -
Using Emoji as a higher Order Support for EL Summary Writing
(2022)To become successful summary writers, English Learner high school students need to be explicitly taught inferencing that allows them to develop the necessary higher-order thinking skills necessary for academic success. ELs ... -
Transnational Teaching in the Induction Years
(2021-09-23)Teachers working transnationally continue to become more common with globalization, connecting teachers from different countries worldwide. However, successfully navigating the process of moving one’s life and career ... -
Successful Instructional Strategies for Online PBL
(2021-09-01)Recent studies have been conducted on the efficacy of Project Based Learning (PBL) (Saavedra, 2021; Kracjik, 2020). However, there exists a gap in the professional literature for implementing PBL in an online environment. ... -
Literacy Engagement and the Impacts on Literacy Development
(2021-08-11)The most common reason for a person to partake in reading and writing is enjoyment which also provides intrinsic motivation. Students who have intrinsic motivation are more likely to be engaged and interact deeply in the ... -
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. ... -
Qualitative Research on Math Manipulatives in Montessori and Traditional Elementary 1st-3rd Grade Classrooms
(2021-06-11)The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the benefits that math manipulatives offer in Montessori and traditional environments in order to highlight the strengths of each setting and learn from each other. ... -
The Effect of Explicit Phonics Instruction on First-Grade Writing
(2021-05-30)Learning to write and composing a story in first grade requires multiple steps of phonemic awareness and phonics. The writing process they use requires more than one simple step of putting words together to make a sentence ... -
The Impact of Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration on On-Task Student Behavior
(2021-06-15)The purpose of this research project was to study how Physical Activity (PA) can impact behaviors in a classroom setting. This study implemented PAs from the MNRI program to determine its impact on students’ on- and off-task ...