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Education and Human Sciences: Recent submissions
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A unit based approach to adaptations in inclusive classrooms.
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Ms. Lawson is an inclusive special education teacher at Ortega Middle School. She has noticed that to make inclusion “work” for her students, she needs to make the curriculum accessible for her students through collaboration ... -
Teachers’ Views of their Preparation for Inclusive Education and Collaboration
(2017)There is a need to advance inclusive education for students with significant disabilities, and one way to support this effort is to ensure educators have expertise in, and are prepared to implement, inclusive practices. ... -
Unit co-planning for academic and college and career readiness in inclusive secondary classrooms
(Sage Publications, 2020)Access to quality general education instruction that includes academic and non-academic skills is a right for all children. To accomplish this, it is necessary to provide tools that foster collaborative planning for student ... -
The Effects of Training in Phonemic Awareness : a Meta-analysis
(University of Kansas, 1999-05-31)This study quantitatively examined the relationship between phonemic awareness training and the phonemic awareness of the trained subjects. Eighteen studies were coded for continuous and categorical moderator variables. The ... -
Summary of ten major school precision teaching programs
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)This study reviewed ten major Precision Teaching programs to discover factors contributing to the success or failure of the programs. Telephone interviews were conducted with project directors of both active and inactive ... -
Investigating the Differences in Twitter Content and Effectiveness Between Individual and Team Sport Athletes
(Sciedu Press, 2018-06-05)While the existing literature has categorized Twitter conversations and examined gender differences in professional athletes¡¯ online self-presentation initiatives, researchers have neglected to examine the differences in ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Retro Marketing in Sport
(Fitness Information Technology, 2018-09-01)Retro marketing has become a staple in sport marketing practices. Teams and leagues are attempting to connect their fans to the past in a magnitude of ways. Despite the influx of retro marketing in sport, there has been ... -
A descriptive study to evaluate the effects of Jordan's 1987 national conference for educational reform
(University of Kansas, 1992-12-31)The focus of this study is on the goals, implementation, and outcomes of Jordan's 1987 National Conference for Educational Reform (NCER). Its purpose is to describe and evaluate the large scale attempts at educational ... -
Survey of fifteen principals trained in precision teaching exploring their use of the standard celeration chart
(University of Kansas, 1986-08-31)This study explored the use of Precision Teaching by 15 principals trained in Precision Teaching. The primary purpose was to identify variables contributing to their continuance or discontinuance of standard celeration ... -
Economic Disparities: SPARK Ohio and Narrowing the Kindergarten Readiness Gap
(Hindawi, 2018-09-10)The present study investigated the extent to which children of various economic backgrounds were prepared for kindergarten literacy activities, as measured by the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy (KRA-L). The ... -
STRUCTURING DIVERSITY: CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICES AS STRUCTURAL RESPONSES TO A CULTURAL ISSUE
(Informing Science Institute, 2019-09-09)Aim/Purpose Higher education has faced increasing perceptions, mainly by students, of unwelcoming campus racial and diversity climates. As a result, during the past decade, there has been a peak in the inaugurations of ... -
The Quest for Refugee Higher Education in Ethiopia: The Case of Self-financing Eritreans
(Open University, 2019-05)This study examines the challenges of Eritrean refugees attending their tertiary education in selected private medical colleges in Ethiopia, and the support schemes available to help them cope with their problems. The ... -
Categorization by Organization: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District
(2019-07)We propose and test the concept of categorical manipulation, a process in which subordinate group demands for greater access to high status categories are met with reversals in the hierarchy of existing categories. The ... -
Systematic Screening for Behavior in K–12 Settings as Regular School Practice: Practical Considerations and Recommendations
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-02)There is a priority for schools to address students’ social and emotional needs as we do academic learning. Tiered models of prevention provide a framework for teaching social skills and behavioral expectations, as well ... -
Translating Educational Research into Classroom Practice: Working Together to Close the Gap
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)The research-to-practice gap, the disconnect between what we know about education and what we do in practice (Olswang & Prelock, 2015) or the gap between the production of new knowledge through research and its inclusion ... -
Neuroendocrine and Lymphocyte Responses to Varied Intensities of Exercise
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Introduction: Dual stress challenges combine the stress of exercise with additional psychological stresses. Under many circumstances, such as military training, these stresses are inseparable. The dual stress challenge ... -
The effects of resistance training on motor unit firing rates and recruitment during submaximal contractions
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Introduction: Previous investigations regarding the effects of resistance training on motor unit (MU) behavior during submaximal contractions have yielded inconclusive results. These investigations have predominantly ... -
Tutoring Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Learners to Read: An Exploratory Research of Customized Reading Scaffolding Instruction
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Given the status quo that Chinese English-as-foreign-language (EFL) learners’ reading practice is mainly confined to teach-to-test pedagogy, many of them who are struggling in reading have neither the interest nor the ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE READING COMPREHENSION OF A RELIGION-BASED ASSESSMENT IN TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONAL CONTEXTS
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)ABSTRACT A Comparative Study of English Second Language Reading Comprehension of a Religion-Based Assessment in Two Different Locational Contexts This study examined two different educational locations which had distinct ... -
Short-term memory processing of reading disabled and normal children
(University of Kansas, 1972-12-31)