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Implementing Character Education in the Secondary English/Language Arts Classroom
Northwest University, June 2010
On a daily basis, students are faced with moral and ethical choices. Based on the level of their development of character, students handle situations and dilemmas very differently from each other. Some choose to ignore ...
Practice Makes Perfect: Increasing Reading Proficiency Through Sustained Silent Reading - a Quantitative Study
Northwest University, July 2010
There have only been moderate educational gains for American students in literary ability over the last thirty years. Increasing the time students spend reading is seen by some to be away to improve their literary skills. ...
Effect of Spiral Vocabulary Review on Test Scores at a Western Washington Middle School
Northwest University, July 2010
The purpose of this research project was to study how spiral review tasks effect student performance on end of unit vocabulary tests. Every Wednesday a vocabulary test is given during the humanities block periods. The ...
The Power of Choice: the Implementation of a Free Choice Reading Program in an Eighth-Grade English Classroom
Northwest University, July 2010
Many of the titles on contemporary middle school reading lists across the country fail to appeal to the interests of today’s adolescents. Oftentimes, this shortfall negatively affects students’ attitudes toward reading and ...