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Using Universal Reading Achievement Data to Study the Effects of a Summer School Reading Program with Elementary Students in a Northern Wisconsin School District
(2014-12)
Summer slide in reading creates a substantial, cumulative gap over the school
years. Attendance at summer school is an intervention that can help prevent students from
summer slide in reading. It was hypothesized that ...
To What Extent Do Teacher Directed Journal Prompts and Other Various Teacher Modeled Writing Exercises Affect the Writing Abilities of Ninth Grade Students at Superior High School?
(2014-12)
A ninth-grade general education class at Superior High School, in Superior, Wisconsin, was used to discover to what extent using journal writing and other teacher modeled writing exercises affected the general writing ...
Technology Coaching and Integration: Teachers' Perceptions of Successful Strategies
(2014-06)
Technology advancements have provided endless methods in approaching the way teachers present content, design class activities, and assess student learning. In an effort to integrate these new methods to both engage students ...
The Perceptions of Teachers of Effects of Social Skills When Working with Students with High Functioning Autism in Kindergarten through Second Grade at a Rural Midwestern Elementary School
(2014-06)
The research was designed to investigate the perceptions of regular education teachers in a rural midwestern school when working with students with high functioning autism while using social stories during a six week ...
Spelling Programs: Basal Spelling, StoryTown, As Compared To Developmental Spelling, Words Their Way
(2014-01)
This study used historical data from a northern Minnesota first grade classroom that used two instructional programs, StoryTown and Words Their Way. The data, determined as pre- and post- test data, that was collected ...
A Comparative Study of Folklore from Chinese Culture and Western Cultures
(2013-05-24)
Folklore, a genre of children's literature, is always considered as one of the most mysterious and interesting genres. Folklore is defined as stories that originated orally and have no authors. Given these qualities, ...
Using Performance Assessments to Increase Motivation in the Foreign Language Classroom at the High School Level
(2016-11-28)
This work describes the importance of Integrated Performance Assessments in the foreign language field can promote changes in the learning and teaching of a foreign language. But new practices can be slow to implement due ...
Role-Modeling Perceptions and Health Behavior Patterns of College Students in Health-Related Majors
(2015-05)
Students seeking degrees in Health and Human Performance (HHP) at the University of Wisconsin-Superior (UWS) are provided a curriculum which focuses on health, fitness, and disease prevention. There is an expectation for ...