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
