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Exploring Literacy Sponsorship in the Digital Extracurriculum: How Students' Participation in Fan Fiction Sites can Inform Composition Pedagogy.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the fan fiction literacy practices of six college students in two sites, FanFiction.Net and LiveJournal.com, and argues for the importance of inviting into the classroom students’ literacy ...
Studenting: An Historical and Sociological Study.
(2010)
I seek to comprehend how thinkers have understood studentsʼ work and the practices they thought were associated with different versions of studenting. In my work, studenting is comprised of the activities and tasks that ...
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators’ sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-11)
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a reform effort “for states, by states,” advances ambitious ideals for elementary science teaching, but the fate of these ideals will depend in part on the engagement of state ...
Gender representation and academic achievement among STEM-interested students in college STEM courses
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12)
Substantial gender equity gaps in postsecondary degree completion persist within many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and these disparities have not narrowed during the 21st century. ...
"The Vulnerability in Singing Comes From Trust in the Relationship First:" Perceptions of Human Connection in High School Choral Music Classrooms
(2023)
The purpose of this study was to understand how human connection (Jordan, 2018; Miller & Stiver, 1997; Schwartz, 2019; Walker, 2020) is experienced in the high school choral music classroom. The central research question ...
Advanced placement course credit and undergraduate student success in gateway science courses
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-02)
Approximately 2 million students take Advanced Placement (AP) examinations annually. However, departmental policies that allow students to replace introductory courses with AP credit greatly vary within and across universities, ...