Educational Research & Innovations (CEDER Yearbook Book 7)

This peer-reviewed collection of articles from the Consortium for Educational Development, Evaluation, & Research at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's College of Education discusses research on innovations in education at both the K-12 and higher education levels.

Chapters:

1. Exploring the cultural relevance of developmentally appropriate practices from the point of view of preschool teachers in Beijing
by Bi Ying Hu

2. Open versus closed questions: What constitutes a good question?
by Roberta Simnacher Pate

3. Promoting reading engagement and comprehension for students with learning disabilities
by Lane Roy Gauthier & Emma M. Schorzman

4. Uncovering the many misconceptions of dyslexia
by Deborah Culbertson

5. Lessons from the field: The need to incorporate caring organizational practices that enhance success (COPES)
by Karen D. Paciotti & Denise Hill

6. Not €œif,€ but €œwhy€ and €œhow:€ What already-motivated black female readers can teach us about adolescent literacy instruction
by Susan L. Groenke, Ann Bennett, & Stephanie Hill

7. The early college experience: Identity, community, and academic discourse €“ South Texas student stories
by Corinne Valadez, F. D. McDowell, Douglas J. Loveless, & Christine DeLaGarza

8. Capturing curreres: A hermeneutic phenomenological
examination of teacher candidates€ engagement in an urban field placement
by Laurel Kristine Chehayl

9. Facebook and remedial reading: Blurring borders of self, others, and multimodal texts
by Douglas J. Loveless & Bryant Griffith

10. Texting fluency: The new measurement of literacy proficiency?
by Evan Ortlieb

11. The DNA of mixed methods: Navigating the proposal and dissertation
by Nancy J. Smith & Douglas R. Stoves

12. Texas Senate Bill 174: Improving transparency in higher education
by Randa Faseler Schell

13. Low performance on teacher certification exams: A hidden consequence of English language learners€ underdeveloped first language?
by Martin J. Ward & Frank Lucido