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Item The Impact of Teaching Students about Growth Mindset on Building Resiliency(2019-05) Osik, Kacie; Masters of EducationThe purpose of this action research study was to identify whether teaching growth mindset lessons would aid students in building resiliency and result in increases in student willingness to participate in class. Previous research suggests that students who have lived through adverse childhood experiences are capable of and benefit from building resiliency, and this increased resiliency has a positive effect on their academic achievement. This study used a quasi-experimental one group pretest-posttest design. The null hypothesis tested whether survey responses reflecting growth mindset would be the same before and after students participated in growth mindset lessons. This null hypothesis was retained, as the mean difference between the groups’ total pre- and post-intervention survey scores of 8.333 points yielded a t value of 2.094 with a significance value of p < .090. Results suggest that students made some gains in terms of the areas assessed, but these gains were not large enough to meet criteria for statistical significance. Further research that is designed to clarify the relationships between teaching growth mindset lessons and resiliency and students’ willingness to participate in class, as well as increase student increase their academic achievement, is recommended.Item The Impact of Teaching Students Higher Order Thinking Skills on Reading Comprehension(2019-07-07) Furst, Sarah; Masters of EducationThe purpose of this study was to discover whether teaching students higher order thinking skills such as inferring, visualizing, making connections, predicting, summarizing, and questioning would increase reading comprehension. The development of comprehension skills was measured by students’ performance on the Fountas and Pinnell Reading Benchmark Assessment, System One. This procedure took place over a 12-week block of time. Before higher order thinking instruction began, the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment was given to all students to establish a baseline score. After the data was collected, instruction was able to start. One higher order thinking strategy was taught and focused on for a two-week period with the first week guided and the second taught through the “I do, we do, you do” instruction. Students viewed modeled expectations and then were able to work together as a whole class or in groups. The second week was set for students to begin completing the tasks that focus on the higher order thinking skill independently. The Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment was given again at the end of the 12 weeks but this time used a text the student had never read. After the new data was collected, the pretest and posttest scores were compared. The current research demonstrates that students who need enrichment benefit from the instruction of higher order thinking skills. Researchers should continue to study which specific strategies are more vital than others. The students who are reading slightly above grade level found success in this study, but it would be interesting to determine whether students reading at grade level or below grade level would benefit from this instruction.Item Pre-Teaching High Frequency Sight Words and the Effects on Students’ Reading Accuracy(2020-11) Diakite, Holly; Rhoades, Thomas; Masters of EducationPrimary teachers across the United States of America spend a portion of their instruction time teaching their students high frequency sight words. In order for students to become successful readers, they must first have a vocabulary of words that are recognized automatically by sight. Students who do not have a “sight word” vocabulary will spend valuable reading time sounding out words when their primary focus needs to be on comprehension of the text. However, there are a multitude of games, activities, lessons, and strategies in which to teach high frequency words. This paper will explore some of the ways to teach high frequency words as well as which ways are the most efficient.