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Academic Achievement and High School Football Participation: Grade Point Average Comparison In-Season Versus Off-Season
Northwest University, Summer 2007
35 pagesThis study examined differences in mean GPA of high school football players relative to being in-season or off-season. Study results indicated no significant difference between means for football player GPA's (n=33), ... -
Advancement Via Individual Determination the Middle School Student Experience
Northwest University, July 2012
iii, 22 pagesThe problem faced in many middle schools throughout the country is that the students with disadvantages get left behind. The goal of the national AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination) program is to assist students ... -
Attitudes Toward Science: Getting Students Engaged
Northwest University, July 2010
iv, 39 pagesIt is a teacher’s responsibility to deliver content and compel the students to learn, so how can teachers get students more excited about science? The purpose of this research is to understand what students enjoy about ... -
Benefits of Using American Sign Language in an Upper Elementary Classroom
Northwest University, July 2010
iii, 27 pagesThis research paper is based on a qualitative study of the benefits of using American Sign Language in an Upper Elementary Classroom. The study was conducted in a fourth grade classroom and involved the participation of ... -
Brain Gym and its Effects on a First Grade Classroom
Northwest University, July 2009
v, 30 pagesCurrently, there is ongoing research centered on the importance of engaging the brain through exercise in the classroom. This new and innovative way of incorporating movement in the classroom is called Brain Gym and it ... -
Can Simple Movements Prior to Instruction Increase Learning in Early Morning Secondary School Classes?
Northwest University, July 2013
iv, 30 pagesThe present study examined the effects of performing simple, early morning movements on students’ memory. For week 1 of the study, students were shown a series of 20 images at the beginning of their first period class on ... -
A Case Study: Differentiation Techniques from a Second Grade Classroom in a Washington State Public Elementary School
Northwest University, July 2008
iii, 54 pagesHow do teachers account for the diverse instructional needs and levels in their classrooms? Differentiation is a philosophy that encourages teachers to consider students' learning needs, achievement levels, and interests ... -
The Challenges of Teaching ELL Students in an American Classroom
Northwest University, July 2008
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Critically Gauging Film Use as a Teaching Aid in a High School Literature Class
Northwest University, August 2008
iii, 56 pagesAs a teacher of English literature in an over-stimulated media-driven era, motivating the reader to enjoy and engage in literature can seem impossible. Literature teachers have used film adaptations for years in correspondence ... -
Definitions of Success from Fifth Grade Students
Northwest University, July 2008
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Detecting Gender Inequality in Elementary Education
Northwest University, July 11, 2014
v, 19 pagesPrimary education is a ubiquitous and an indispensable social service offered in our society. From an early age gender bias has been detected in female students who are more likely to experience a division between their ... -
The Development and Efficacy of the Core Plus Mathematics Project Secondary Mathematics Curriculum
Northwest University, NaN
vi, 48 pagesBy the early 1980s it was clear that the education of students in the United States was falling behind most other developed countries especially in math and science. This resulted in a significant shift from the “traditional” ... -
The Differences in the Acquisition Rate of the English Language for Two Chinese Students at Northwest University
Northwest University, June 2014
iv, 28 pagesThe researcher in this study attempted to ask the following question: why one student improved in her language more quickly than another? He measured this by coding errors in students’ papers; this demonstrated differentiation ... -
Differentiating Math Instruction to Meet the Needs of Highly Capable Students
Northwest University, July 2008
iv, 62 pagesAmidst the push to bring struggling students up to standard, many highly capable students are neglected. Those who perform above grade level standard are not given adequate challenges. This is a study of differentiation ... -
Drawing a Picture as a Pre-Writing Strategy in First Grade
Northwest University, Summer 2007
23 pagesIn this study the writing products of 21 first-grade students, who drew a picture before writing a story, was compared with the writing products of 21 first grade students who wrote without drawing a picture. The students ... -
The Educational Experience of Hmong Students at John Muir Elementary
Northwest University, July 2011
iv, 46 pagesThe story of the Hmong people is a story of facing adversity and adapting to grow as a community and a people. The Hmong students of John Muir Elementary have faced this adversity in their journey to find academic success ... -
The Effect of Athletics on Academics in Secondary Education: How to Best Use Athletics to Help Academics
Northwest University, July 2008
iv, 40 pagesDo athletics help or hinder academic success? Research shows that athletics helps academic success, but how then do athletic programs, specifically athletic directors and coaches, best use athletics to help student-athletes ... -
Effect of Incremental Cognitive Messages on Mathematical Self-Concept Within Remedial and Grade-Level High School Students
Northwest University, July 2013
viii, 64 pagesStudent self-concept, particularly within the mathematics discipline, is deeply rooted in student understanding of the control or lack of control (locus of control) that they might have over their potential for success. ... -
Effect of Spiral Vocabulary Review on Test Scores at a Western Washington Middle School
Northwest University, July 2010
iv, 21 pagesThe 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 ... -
Effective Methods of Teaching Spelling
Northwest University, August 2008
v, 22 pagesAn action research was conducted to investigate the most effective ways of teaching spelling in a third grade class. The research compared two schools of thought, Phonics/Word Study vs. Whole Language, as it relates to ...
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